Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_24th
Notable items...
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule ** group1 to 1.23wmf19: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf19 ** Schedule: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_deployments
* Switching the Compact Personal Bar Beta Feature discussion page to Flow ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Compact_Personal_Bar
== Wednesday ==
* Enable Hovercards on all wikis as a BetaFeature ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule) ** group2 to 1.23wmf19 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.23wmf20 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf20
* As a part of the MediaWiki rollout the Typography Refresh beta feature will move from VectorBeta extension/Beta Feature to the Vector skin in MediaWiki core. This effectively updates the default skin for all users with improved readability. ** See the summary of changes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#Summary_of_changes ** This will roll out with the 1.23wmf20 branch mentioned above, which means it will gradually roll out to all wikis following the normal progression (testwikis & mediawiki.org on Thursday -> non-wikipedias (eg Commons etc) on Tuesday -> All wikis following Thursday).
Thanks, and as always, questions welcome,
Greg
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
- As a part of the MediaWiki rollout the Typography Refresh beta feature will move from VectorBeta extension/Beta Feature to the Vector skin in MediaWiki core. This effectively updates the default skin for all users with improved readability.
** See the summary of changes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#Summary_of_changes ** This will roll out with the 1.23wmf20 branch mentioned above, which means it will gradually roll out to all wikis following the normal progression (testwikis & mediawiki.org on Thursday -> non-wikipedias (eg Commons etc) on Tuesday -> All wikis following Thursday).
So folks know, other than publishing on Wikitech Deployments page, in Tech News, and these mailing lists, our communication plans include the following:
1. A MassMessage before the fact to Village Pumps, separate from Tech News and pointing to the translated FAQ 2. An article in the English Wikipedia Signpost 3. A short blog post on blog.wikimedia.org
If there are other things you think we should be doing, please speak up. The overkill message of last resort is to use a CentralNotice banner, though that seems a little silly to me just to update fonts.
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