Tech:Removing an extension

If a decision has been made to remove an extension from Miraheze for whatever reason (i.e. it's unmaintained, it isn't compatible with the current version of MediaWiki, etc.) the following procedure should be followed when removing an extension. Any user can create a pull request to remove an extension, but it has to be merged and deployed by a system administrator.

The steps below must be done in this order:


 * 1) Generate a list of all wikis using the extension with  . This will create a json list in your home directory called
 * 2) Run
 * 3) Remove any settings configured using
 * 4) Remove any existing configuration from ManageWikiExtensions.php, LocalSettings.php, Defines.php, and extension-list. (Note: If the extension has extra settings in ManageWikiSettings.php, make sure to remove that too)
 * 5) Remove the submodule from the MediaWiki repository after the settings above have been successfully removed.

On mwtask111 and test101:
 * 1) run
 * 2) run   (on test101,  )