diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/WikiController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/WikiController.php
index a6fed7844..ae017da6c 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/WikiController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/WikiController.php
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 use App\Jobs\MediawikiInit;
 use App\Jobs\ProvisionQueryserviceNamespaceJob;
 use App\Jobs\ProvisionWikiDbJob;
+use App\Jobs\ElasticSearchIndexInit;
 use App\QueryserviceNamespace;
 use App\Wiki;
 use App\WikiDb;
@@ -79,6 +80,14 @@ public function create(Request $request): \Illuminate\Http\Response
                 'value' => Str::random(64),
             ]);
 
+            // Enable elasticsearch for new wikis by default
+            // T285541
+//             WikiSetting::create([
+//                 'wiki_id' => $wiki->id,
+//                 'name' => 'wwExtEnableElasticSearch',
+//                 'value' => true,
+//             ]);
+
             // Also track the domain forever in your domains table
             $wikiDomain = WikiDomain::create([
                 'domain' => $wiki->domain,
@@ -108,6 +117,8 @@ public function create(Request $request): \Illuminate\Http\Response
         $this->dispatch(new ProvisionWikiDbJob(null, null, 10));
         $this->dispatch(new ProvisionQueryserviceNamespaceJob(null, 10));
 
+//        $this->dispatch(new ElasticSearchIndexInit($wiki->domain));
+
         $res['success'] = true;
         $res['message'] = 'Success!';
         $res['data'] = [
diff --git a/app/Jobs/ElasticSearchIndexInit.php b/app/Jobs/ElasticSearchIndexInit.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9d8b6c890
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/Jobs/ElasticSearchIndexInit.php
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Jobs;
+
+class ElasticSearchIndexInit extends Job
+{
+    private $wikiDomain;
+
+    /**
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function __construct($wikiDomain)
+    {
+        $this->wikiDomain = $wikiDomain;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function handle()
+    {
+        $curl = curl_init();
+        curl_setopt_array($curl, [
+            CURLOPT_URL => getenv('PLATFORM_MW_BACKEND_HOST').'/w/api.php?action=wbstackElasticSearchInit&format=json',
+            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
+            CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
+            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 10,
+            CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
+            CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
+            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
+                'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
+                'host: '.$this->wikiDomain,
+            ],
+        ]);
+
+        $rawResponse = curl_exec($curl);
+        $err = curl_error($curl);
+        if ($err) {
+            $this->fail(
+                new \RuntimeException('curl error for '.$this->wikiDomain.': '.$err)
+            );
+
+            return; //safegaurd
+        }
+
+        curl_close($curl);
+
+        $response = json_decode($rawResponse, true);
+
+        if (!array_key_exists('wbstackElasticSearchInit', $response)) {
+            $this->fail(
+                new \RuntimeException('wbstackElasticSearchInit call for '.$this->wikiDomain.'. No wbstackElasticSearchInit key in response: '.$rawResponse)
+            );
+
+            return; //safegaurd
+        }
+
+        if ($response['wbstackElasticSearchInit']['success'] == 0) {
+            $this->fail(
+                new \RuntimeException('wbstackElasticSearchInit call for '.$this->wikiDomain.' was not successful:'.$rawResponse)
+            );
+
+            return; //safegaurd
+        }
+    }
+}