I forgot one important note about next Thursday's MediaWiki deploy.

It'll include: * MassMessage [6] rollout to all wikis

Happy days of no longer using a bot for sending newsletters!

[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassMessage

Greg

<quote name="Greg Grossmeier" date="2013-11-08" time="15:18:01 -0800">

Hello there,

Here's what's coming up in the world of Wikimedia project deployments.

As always, the full known schedule is available on Wikitech: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments

Next week: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_November_11

== Throughout the week ==

Ops (Mark B) moving front end cache servers to Varnish[0] (from Squid) in our Ashburn[1] datacenter. Should be done early in the week pending issues.

[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Varnish [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eqiad

== Monday ==

NOTHING - US Holiday (Veterans Day)

== Tuesday ==

• CirrusSearch [2] set as secondary for nl.wikipedia
• MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 [3] to all non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf3

== Thursday ==

• Swift [5] (object storage) will have a master replaced (pending other blocking tasks).
• CirrusSearch [2] set as secondary for it.wikipedia and pl.wiktionary.org
• MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 [3] to all Wikipedias
• MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 [4] to all testwikis (test/test2/testwikidata/loginwiki/mediawiki)

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf4 [5] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Swift (Outdated)

All the best,

Greg

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