New subject: Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of June 16th

13 Jun 2014

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

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