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 ## How to use
 - run the GitHub Action workflow to create a new tarball: https://github.com/wbstack/mediawiki-tars/actions/workflows/packager.yml
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+## Background
+We tried to use the extension archives distributed by the WMF https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361202#9739913
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+But they don't seem to be kept long enough around for us https://github.com/wbstack/mediawiki/pull/443