awesome job here!!!!
>From here onwards, do we update the mediawiki/ pages (instead of the
spreadsheet)?


On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 11:56 AM Reuven Lazarus via Wikitech-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings everyone!
>
> Following up on the April update
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/AYILLCY2SZMIOS4MSYXKQHSWU2JAGFYR/>
> from the Code Ownership Working Group on Service Ownership, we wanted to
> share some progress.
>
> Over the past several months, we've worked through the Wikimedia
> production environment to document services and identify the WMF teams
> responsible for some of them. That work is now reflected in the *Service
> Catalog*
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog>
> page: it has been updated with team ownership for the services we've
> assessed so far and incorporates most of the information found on the
> mw:Developers/Maintainers
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog&oldid=8606967>
> and mw:Upstream_projects
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Upstream_projects&oldid=8543190>
> pages.
>
> We have published this Service Catalog by updating the
> mw:Developers/Maintainers page and renaming it to
> Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog. This ensures we have exactly one copy
> of the ownership information and everyone is operating off the same
> information.
>
> A couple of things worth being clear about:
>
> This is a work in progress, not a finished inventory. Some services now
> have a clearly assigned owning team; many others are still being worked
> through and this will take time. As we said in April, we expect to narrow
> the set of unowned services gradually, prioritized by risk — not all at
> once. That said, we have already found owners for 6 critical/high-risk
> previously unowned services and a few more are expected to be owned in the
> coming weeks.
>
> The process is now in place; the coverage will keep growing. What's
> changed is that there's now a repeatable way to assign and record team
> ownership, and that ownership reflects an ongoing commitment for a
> service’s entire lifecycle, even in the event of reorganization and other
> changes.
>
> If you maintain or contribute to a service and don't see it reflected
> accurately on the Service Catalog  page – or don't see it listed at all  –
> please reach out on the Talk page
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog>
> so we can correct or add it.
>
> As before, questions and clarifications are welcome on the Talk pages of
> the Service Ownership Roles and Responsibilities
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog/Ownership_Roles_and_Responsibilities>
> and FAQ
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog/FAQ>
> pages which contain more background details.
>
> Reuven, on behalf of the Code Ownership Working Group @ WMF.
>
> --
> *Reuven Lazarus *(he/him)
> Staff Site Reliability Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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