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_June_16th
A quick list of notable items...
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.24wmf9: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf9
* Mobile view ** Tablets will be sent to the mobile version of the project websites. Previously they were sent to the desktop version. There is a blog post and central notice drafted and ready to go out day of.
* CentralAuth Global Rename Tool ** CentralAuth will now provide an interface to rename global users. ** More info at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CentralAuth/Global_rename
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.24wmf9 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.24wmf10 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
* MediaViewer ** Will be enabled on *all* wikis ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
Greg Grossmeier, 14/06/2014 00:30:
Tablets will be sent to the mobile version of the project websites. Previously they were sent to the desktop version. There is a blog post and central notice drafted and ready to go out day of.
Will someone be monitoring the effects [if any] on editing activity and number of active editors/new [10+ edits] editors?
Nemo
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Greg Grossmeier, 14/06/2014 00:30:
Tablets will be sent to the mobile version of the project
websites. Previously they were sent to the desktop version. There is a blog post and central notice drafted and ready to go out day of.Will someone be monitoring the effects [if any] on editing activity and number of active editors/new [10+ edits] editors?
Nemo
Nope. The total active editors count is not a priority for the Foundation at this time.[1]
1). I'm completely joking of course. Increasing the count of active editors (which is 5+ article edits/month) is one of the listed goals of the mobile web team, which will include monitoring the tablet switchover. See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Mobile and http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/
Steven Walling, 14/06/2014 23:55:
Will someone be monitoring the effects [if any] on editing activity and number of active editors/new [10+ edits] editors?Nope. The total active editors count is not a priority for the Foundation at this time.[1]
This is not what I asked. I asked about effects of this change, not about totals.
Nemo
On Sunday, June 15, 2014, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Steven Walling, 14/06/2014 23:55:
Will someone be monitoring the effects [if any] on editing activity and number of active editors/new [10+ edits] editors?Nope. The total active editors count is not a priority for the Foundation at this time.[1]
This is not what I asked. I asked about effects of this change, not about totals.
Nemo
Nemo, if you look at the mobile dashboard that I linked to in my previous email, you can see that all of the charts measure something over time on various scales (daily, weekly, monthly). Outside of a controlled test, looking at the trends over time (including year over year rates of change) is how we measure these potential effects.
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