Hello Ambassadors!
Below if the full Deployment Highlights update email for next week, but
I'll summarize a few things quickly that are (probably) more of interest
to you:
1) The Wikidata client will be rolled out to English Wikipedia on
Monday and then if all is well, to all WPs on Wednesday. This enables
the ability to use Wikidata properties in infoboxes.
A couple useful/helpful urls:
*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Phase_2:_Infobox…
*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions#Phase_2_.28inf…
2) ArticleFeedbackTool will be reenabled on English Wikipedia for a
subset of articles on Wednesday April 24th.
* Full details:
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/AFT5-release
3) Parsoid will be deployed (an updated version) to 14 additional wikis
on Thursday April 25th, the wikis are: de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl,
ja, ar, he, hi, ko, and zh.
4) Notifications (previously "Echo") will be released to English
Wikipedia on Thursday with the features described in:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000373.html
and
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000390.html
As always, please don't hesitate to ask for clarifications here.
All the best and have a good weekend,
Greg
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:13:55 -0700
From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, "Development and
Operations engineers (WMF
only)" <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Deployment Highlights Update - Week of April 22nd
Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Deployment Highlights
email.
The full calendar for next week lives at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_22nd
For the week of April 22nd we have the following interesting
deployments:
== Monday ==
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 to English Wikipedia
* Wikidata client update on English Wikipedia. Completion of Wikidata
Phase II [0], which will allow for use of Wikidata properties in
infoboxes. There is also an FAQ[1] about Phase2 that might answer your
questions.
[0]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Phase_2:_Infobox…
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions#Phase_2_.28inf…
== Tuesday ==
* ArticleFeedbackTool will be renabled to "on" on a subset of English
Wikipedia, along with basic bugfixes to French and German Wikipedia.
Details:
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/AFT5-release
* Mobile:
** First use of CentralNotice to display banners for users of the WP
Commons Beta app.
** Deploy of a fix for the "X-Device" caching problem explained in
this[2] email. Basically, reduce the cache-miss rate by not varying
the cache by 21 different device types.
[2]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-March/067967.html
== Wednesday ==
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 to all Wikis
* Wikidata client update on all Wikipedia sites (tentative; depending on
success of English Wikipedia deployment on Monday).
== Thursday ==
* VisualEditor/Parsoid alhpa to be enabled on additional 14 wikis (but
not by default, still opt-in).
** WPs included: de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja, ar, he, hi, ko, zh
** Announcement:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-April/000201…
* Notifications: Releasing of the "Minimum Viable Product" on English
Wikipedia. See these two ([3] & [4]) messages from the Notifications
Product Manager, Fabrice Florin, outlining what features are
included.
[3]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000373.html
[4]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000390.html
** Full details:
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release
== Everyday ==
And of course, every day includes the Lightning Deploy window, which
this week is ceremonially referred to as "Matt Walker's Deploy Window"
as he was a heavy (and courteous) user of these windows this past week.
Thanks and have a good weekend,
Greg
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