Hi folks, I just wanted to quickly highlight the plan that we have for deploying MediaWiki 1.18 to the Wikimedia sites: * Monday, September 19 (-20), 23:00-01:00 UTC (4pm-6pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.18 deployment to test2 * Wednesday, September 21 (-22), 23:00-03:00 UTC (4pm-8pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.18 stage 1 deployment (simplewiki, simplewiktionary, usabilitywiki, strategywiki, mediawikiwiki, hewikisource) * Monday, September 26 (-27), 23:00-03:00 UTC (4pm-8pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.18 stage 2 deployment (metawiki, enwikiquote, enwikibooks, betawikiversity, eowiki, nlwiki) * Tuesday, October 4 (-5), 23:00-03:00 UTC (4pm-8pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.18 stage 3 deployment (remaining wikis) More about MediaWiki 1.18 can be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18 The main blocker right now? Code review: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.18/Revision_report See Mark's email earlier today for more detail on this. Please chip in where you can. Thanks! Rob