During the planning meeting, I asked whether we have section-level data for all wikis where we have Add Image enabled. The answer was "we need to find that out", so I checked and here are the counts:

urbanecm@wmf3345 tmp % get_section_tasks() {
curl -s "https://$1/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=search&formatversion=2&srsearch=hasrecommendation%3Aimage_section%20-hasrecommendation%3Aimage" | jq .query.searchinfo.totalhits | tr -d '\n'
}
urbanecm@wmf3345 tmp % get_article_tasks() {
function> curl -s "https://$1/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=search&formatversion=2&srsearch=hasrecommendation%3Aimage" | jq .query.searchinfo.totalhits | tr -d '\n' 
function> }
urbanecm@wmf3345 tmp % for wiki in ar.wikipedia.org bn.wikipedia.org cs.wikipedia.org el.wikipedia.org es.wikipedia.org fa.wikipedia.org fr.wikipedia.org id.wikipedia.org pl.wikipedia.org pt.wikipedia.org ro.wikipedia.org tr.wikipedia.org vi.wikipedia.org zh.wikipedia.org; do echo -en "$wiki\t"; get_section_tasks $wiki; echo; done
ar.wikipedia.org	17878
bn.wikipedia.org	4507
cs.wikipedia.org	20460
el.wikipedia.org	10523
es.wikipedia.org	49535
fa.wikipedia.org	9615
fr.wikipedia.org	49084
id.wikipedia.org	11274
pl.wikipedia.org	28814
pt.wikipedia.org	20615
ro.wikipedia.org	8324
tr.wikipedia.org	12527
vi.wikipedia.org	0
zh.wikipedia.org	20355
urbanecm@wmf3345 tmp %

It seems we have section-level data for most wikis, except vi.wikipedia, which has zero section-level recommendations.

Per @KStoller-WMF, we will deploy excluding viwiki, pending investigation on why viwiki's recommendation count is zero. Filled T346682: Generate section image recommendations for Vietnamese Wikipedia and other wikis to resolve the zero recommendations issue.

Change 960545 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] growth: Enable section-image recommendations on 10 new wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/960545

This is ready now from engineering standpoint. @Trizek-WMF @KStoller-WMF When do you want to get this deployed?

@Trizek-WMF - I'll let you define the release date based on what level of community update/conversation is needed. I simply suggest earlier in the week (a Monday or Tuesday) so there is plenty of time to address any questions or concerns before the weekend.

As the wikis we target already have Add an image at the article level, this change wouldn't be a big difference for them. I think we can just go with an announcement in Tech News.

Can we deploy on Monday, next week (the 9th)?

In T345940#9225772, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

As the wikis we target already have Add an image at the article level, this change wouldn't be a big difference for them. I think we can just go with an announcement in Tech News.

Ack, sounds good to me.

Can we deploy on Monday, next week (the 9th)?

Unfortunately, we can't do that, as Oct 09 is a US federal holiday. Would the next day (Tuesday, Oct 10) work for you?

Sure! Thank you for spotting it.

Change 960545 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] growth: Enable section-image recommendations on 10 new wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/960545

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-10-10T13:07:18Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:960545|growth: Enable section-image recommendations on 10 new wikis (T345940)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-10-10T13:08:38Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> urbanecm: Backport for [[gerrit:960545|growth: Enable section-image recommendations on 10 new wikis (T345940)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-10-10T13:17:17Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:960545|growth: Enable section-image recommendations on 10 new wikis (T345940)]] (duration: 09m 59s)

This is now done.