Here is your weekly dose of deployment highlights!
Full schedule always available at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
Next week's:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_August_19th
Highlights below...
== Monday ==
* We'll be enabling Ceph on production. Ceph is used for storage of
media files (eg: images, videos, etc). More (very detailed)
information about this can be found at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ceph
* We'll be deploying OAuth to the set of test wikis (test.wikipedia,
test2.wikipedia,
mediawiki.org, and
test.wikidata.org). More
information about the OAuth work can be found at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Oauth
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf13 will be deployed to the second group of wikis,
ie: all non-Wikipedia project sites.
For the list of important changes, see:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13#Important_Changes
== Tuesday ==
* Notifications (Echo) will be deployed to the first set of non-english
pilot sites, specifically French and Polish.
See the Notifications release plan at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Release_Plan_2013
== Wednesday ==
* We will enable secure login (via HTTPS) by default. This means that
all logged in users will read and edit the site via a secure
connection over HTTPS. Given some restrictions/internet blocks in some
jurisdictions, we will disable this feature on specific language
wikis.
There is a page on MetaWiki explaining this, with a link to the
Wikimedia blog post that originally announced the plan here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
This is a first step along a route to improved security while also
taking into account internet censorship in certain jurisdictions.
There will be more communication about this rollout on Monday the
19th.
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf13 will be deployed to the last group of wikis, ie:
all Wikipedia project sites.
For the list of important changes, see:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13#Important_Changes
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Greg
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