Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Deployment Highlights
email.
The full calendar for next week lives at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_22nd
For the week of April 22nd we have the following interesting
deployments:
== Monday ==
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 to English Wikipedia
* Wikidata client update on English Wikipedia. Completion of Wikidata
Phase II [0], which will allow for use of Wikidata properties in
infoboxes. There is also an FAQ[1] about Phase2 that might answer your
questions.
[0]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Phase_2:_Infobox…
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions#Phase_2_.28inf…
== Tuesday ==
* ArticleFeedbackTool will be renabled to "on" on a subset of English
Wikipedia, along with basic bugfixes to French and German Wikipedia.
Details:
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/AFT5-release
* Mobile:
** First use of CentralNotice to display banners for users of the WP
Commons Beta app.
** Deploy of a fix for the "X-Device" caching problem explained in
this[2] email. Basically, reduce the cache-miss rate by not varying
the cache by 21 different device types.
[2]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-March/067967.html
== Wednesday ==
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 to all Wikis
* Wikidata client update on all Wikipedia sites (tentative; depending on
success of English Wikipedia deployment on Monday).
== Thursday ==
* VisualEditor/Parsoid alhpa to be enabled on additional 14 wikis (but
not by default, still opt-in).
** WPs included: de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja, ar, he, hi, ko, zh
** Announcement:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-April/000201…
* Notifications: Releasing of the "Minimum Viable Product" on English
Wikipedia. See these two ([3] & [4]) messages from the Notifications
Product Manager, Fabrice Florin, outlining what features are
included.
[3]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000373.html
[4]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000390.html
** Full details:
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release
== Everyday ==
And of course, every day includes the Lightning Deploy window, which
this week is ceremonially referred to as "Matt Walker's Deploy Window"
as he was a heavy (and courteous) user of these windows this past week.
Thanks and have a good weekend,
Greg
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