Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_May_19th
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* Enable CirrusSearch as primary search backend on zh-yue wikipedia.
** <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search
* Enable anonymous editor acquisition experiment in GettingStarted on
enwiki, dewiki, frwiki, itwiki and test wikis.
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf5: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf5
* Enable Flow at mw:Talk:Wikibase/Beta Features/Other projects sidebar,
mw:Talk:Design, and mw:Talk:Phabricator/Help
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow
== Wednesday ==
* Swapping GeoData to use Elasticsearch as its backend everywhere.
** <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf4 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.24wmf5 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
* MediaViewer
** English, German, Italian and Russian Wikipedias, and all Wikisources, in
stages.
** <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg