Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the deployment highlights email.
You can always check the Deployment calendar [0] for the canonical reference of deployments planned during a given week.
For next week: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_December_16
!!!Special Holiday Note!!! This next week is the last week of planned (non-emergency) deployments before we take a week off for the holidays.
== Monday ==
* The new search backend (CirrusSearch[1]) will be enabled on all wikisources and commons as a secondary search option that is accessible via the appending "&srbackend=CirrusSearch" to a search url. * CirrusSearch will be added to the list of "Beta Features" that users can opt-in to on all wikimedias, wikimanias, and wiktionaries.
* There will be a new version of PHP deployed to the Wikimedia servers on Monday as well. This should not change any user-facing actions (this update will help deal with a server problem where temporary files are not deleted when appropriate).
== Tuesday ==
* All non-Wikipedia sites will be switched to MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 [2].
* The GLAM Wiki Toolset[3] will be enabled on Commons, allowing for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to more easily upload bulk collections of images with associated metadata.
== Wednesday ==
* The new search backend (CirrusSearch) will be enabled on: ** all wikinewsies set as secondary search; ** itwiktionary, disabled wikis, cawiki, and enwikisource set as primary search; ** all users on all wikisources will have the option of enabling it as their own personal primary search via BetaFeatures[4].
* The new and improved Wikimania Scholarships application[5] will be deployed to production. NOTE: this doesn't mean you need to start applying for scholarships, this is simply the deployment of the code for the new scholarship application management tool. See your friendly Wikimania planners for more information about scholarships.
== Thursday ==
* All Wikipedias will be switched to MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 [2]. * All test wikis (test.wikipedia.org, test2, mediawiki.org, and test.wikidata.or) will be switched to MediaWiki 1.23wmf8 [6].
Thanks, and as always, feel free to reply with any questions,
Greg
[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Near_Term [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf7 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GWToolset [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimania_Scholarship_app [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf8