Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the deployment and roadmap highlights.
Full up-to-date schedule, as always, can be found online at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
== Monday January 13th ==
Search - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search * enwiki will have the new search as a secondary (opt-in via URL parameter) search backend, thus starting the indexing of those sites * dewiki and wikibooks wikis will have the new search as an opt-in BetaFeature.
Visual Editor - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor * enabled by default on "phase 4" Wikipedias ** full list at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,102208,n,z
== Tuesday January 14th ==
Search * Upgrade the ElasticSearch backend to 0.90.10 ** http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/0-90-10-released/
MediaWiki - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap * group1 to 1.23wmf10: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
Wikidata * Wikidata (phase1) will be enabled on Wikisource. In other words, this will enable support for Wikisource language links on Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikisource
== Thursday January 16th ==
MediaWiki - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap * group2 to 1.23wmf10 (all Wikipedias) * group0 to 1.23wmf11 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Greg