Hello and welcome to the lates 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_July_21st

A quick list of notable items...

== Monday ==

* Wikitech wiki ** The MediaWiki install at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org will be upgraded starting at 16:00 UTC

== Tuesday ==

* MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.24wmf11: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf14 ** "Topic:" namespace added (for Flow)

== Wednesday ==

* Weekly fundraising banner test

== Thursday ==

* MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.24wmf14 (all Wikipedias) *** "Topic:" namespace added (for Flow) ** group0 to 1.24wmf15 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)

== Longer term ==

The plan (subject to change) for the next month or so:

* July 31st: Thumbnail styling change to testwikis ** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65160 * end of July: HHVM on all jobrunners * end of July: Beta Feature: "in other projects" sidebar ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar ** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66226 * Aug 5 - 10: Wikimania 2014 (critical deploys only) * Aug 14: VE as default editing experience for tablets * Aug 12 - 15: Thumbnail styling change to non-wikipedias then wikipedias * Mid-August: change default thumbnail size from 220px to 300px -- ** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67709 ** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67703

Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,

Greg