[Wikitech-l] Deployment Highlights Update - Week of April 22nd

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Deployment Highlights email. The full calendar for next week lives at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_22nd For the week of April 22nd we have the following interesting deployments: == Monday == * MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 to English Wikipedia * Wikidata client update on English Wikipedia. Completion of Wikidata Phase II [0], which will allow for use of Wikidata properties in infoboxes. There is also an FAQ[1] about Phase2 that might answer your questions. [0] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Phase_2:_Infobox… [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions#Phase_2_.28inf… == Tuesday == * ArticleFeedbackTool will be renabled to "on" on a subset of English Wikipedia, along with basic bugfixes to French and German Wikipedia. Details: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/AFT5-release * Mobile: ** First use of CentralNotice to display banners for users of the WP Commons Beta app. ** Deploy of a fix for the "X-Device" caching problem explained in this[2] email. Basically, reduce the cache-miss rate by not varying the cache by 21 different device types. [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-March/067967.html == Wednesday == * MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 to all Wikis * Wikidata client update on all Wikipedia sites (tentative; depending on success of English Wikipedia deployment on Monday). == Thursday == * VisualEditor/Parsoid alhpa to be enabled on additional 14 wikis (but not by default, still opt-in). ** WPs included: de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja, ar, he, hi, ko, zh ** Announcement: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-April/000201… * Notifications: Releasing of the "Minimum Viable Product" on English Wikipedia. See these two ([3] & [4]) messages from the Notifications Product Manager, Fabrice Florin, outlining what features are included. [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000373.html [4] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000390.html ** Full details: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release == Everyday == And of course, every day includes the Lightning Deploy window, which this week is ceremonially referred to as "Matt Walker's Deploy Window" as he was a heavy (and courteous) user of these windows this past week. Thanks and have a good weekend, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |