Chad wrote:
There's no real automated way to do it (I had
thought about it
a few weeks ago, but never really got anywhere). Best bet for
the moment is to just check the Special:Version on any WMF
wiki.
The API also has a machine readable interface to this which could be
used efficiently in a small script run via cron (rather than screen
scraping from Special:Version).
MinuteElectron.