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_Aug_18th

A quick list of notable items...

== Tuesday ==

* MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.24wmf17: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf17

* Wikidata ** Badges support will be rolled out, see: *** https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004331.html ** Wikinews will get sitelinks via Wikidata (aka "Wikidata phase 1")

== Wednesday ==

* Weekly fundraising banner test

== Thursday ==

* MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.24wmf17 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.24wmf18 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)

Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,

Greg