Message: 4 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:30:44 -0700 From: Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming MediaWiki 1.18 deployment To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID:       CAPzpXh6LUJPB0Rn6K9NGKQmA2aipWf_X7cShU5s5D-f8+7Bftg@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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

btw, could refreshImageMetadata.php be run on wmf wikis some time after the deployment? 1.18 contains lots of new code related to Exif support (and related image metadata stuff). The maintenance script just regenerates img_metadata based on the source image.

-bawolff