Hey folks :)
We'll be rolling out a new beta feature on August 26th/28th to
Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. It will add a new section to the
sidebar of an article. This section will contain links to related
articles in other sister projects. Which projects are shown can be
configured per-wiki. You can find out more about it at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
If you have any questions about this please use the discussion page of
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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_Aug_18th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf17: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf17>
* Wikidata
** Badges support will be rolled out, see:
*** <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004331.html>
** Wikinews will get sitelinks via Wikidata (aka "Wikidata phase 1")
== Wednesday ==
* Weekly fundraising banner test
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf17 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.24wmf18 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Hi folks,
Starting with version 1.24wmf17 (which will be deployed to production wikis
starting August 14), MediaWiki will no longer execute JavaScript code on
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (previously the cutoff was MSIE5). In short,
this version of MSIE has several unpatched vulnerabilities and is no longer
actively supported. Running JavaScript for this version of the browser
carries a significant maintenance burden without commensurate benefit.
JavaScript fixes specific to IE6 have also been removed. Additional IE6
fixes that exist in MediaWiki:Common.js can be safely removed one MediaWiki
1.24wmf17 is deployed on your wiki.
In general, we are considering putting more outdated browsers in the "no
JavaScript" category, while simultaneously putting more effort against
ensuring that basic site functions can be used without JavaScript. Likely
candidates for this include IE7 (released 2006) and Opera 8.* (released
2005).
We believe this will ultimately benefit both groups of users: Users with
outdated browsers get a more consistently tested and more secure
experience, while users with modern browsers benefit from faster
development.
This will be communicated through tech news as well, but please help carry
this message into your communities as appropriate.
All best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Hello!
Welcome to the special "Get ready for Wikimania!" edition of the roadmap
and deployment update email.
This next week, in honor of Wikimania (and due to fact that many will be
traveling, conference'ing, etc), there will be no planned deployments.
Of course, special circumstances may require an exceptional deploy, but
we will not, for instance, be rolling out/updating to new MediaWiki
versions.
Take a look at the upcoming (post-wikimania) items at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Next_month
Any questions, as always, feel free to ask,
Greg
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