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Upcoming

• There is a regular deployment window for updating the software we run, on every Wednesday at 11:00 – 14:00 UTC.

May 2022

• 2022-05-18: Support was added for a new project Wikimedia Developer Portal
• 2022-05-09: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikibase EDTF

April 2022

• 2022-04-30: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Campaign Events
• 2021-04-27: DOWN The site was down briefly for multiple times. We deployed a risky change and it had issues which we had to debug and fix on the fly. The irony is that these changes are made to make deployments like this safer in the future. See phab:T259223 for more details.
• 2022-04-25: Support was added for a new project Kiwix Serve
• 2022-04-11: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Semantic REST API
• 2022-04-11: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Image Suggestions

March 2022

• 2022-03-31: Support was added for a new project WikiAuthBot
• 2022-03-24: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Automated Values
• 2021-03-09: DOWN There was approximately 6 minutes of downtime during a scheduled deployment due to T303391.

February 2022

• 2022-02-24: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin Tuleap Skin
• 2022-02-24: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Tuleap Wiki Farm
• 2022-02-24: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Tuleap Integration
• 2022-02-13: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikistories
• 2022-02-09: Support was added for a project Colorless echo JavaScript kit

January 2022

• 2022-01-13: To improve the privacy of our users we stopped using Google Analytics
• 2022-01-12: Template Styles extension was installed
• 2022-01-11: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Search Thumbs
• 2022-01-11: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikimedia Messages - Undeployed Placeholders
• 2022-01-05: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Block Inactive

December 2021

• 2021-12-13: DOWN There was approximately 2 minutes of downtime due to a faulty configuration change.
• 2021-12-13: Support was added for a project ISA
• 2021-12-04: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Category Lockdown

November 2021

• 2021-11-26: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Workflows
• 2021-11-26: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Forms
• 2021-11-21: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Quick Instant Commons
• 2021-11-19: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Standard Dialogs
• 2021-11-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Page Checkout
• 2021-11-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Unified Task Overview
• 2021-11-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin Blue Spice Discovery
• 2021-11-10: Support was removed for project Wikimania Scholarships App
• 2021-11-09: DOWN There was approximately 2 minutes of downtime due to a faulty configuration change.
• 2021-11-08: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Filter Special Pages
• 2021-11-03: DOWN There was approximately 15 minutes of downtime due to outage affecting our server.

October 2021

• 2021-10-25: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Sticky TOC
• 2021-10-13: We are now back using the latest version of Mediawiki code.
• 2021-10:13: Contribution Changes extensions was removed from this wiki due to performance and license issues.
• 2021-10-07: Support was added for a project DiscordRCFeed
• 2021-10-04: Support was added for a new Etherpad plugin Embed Media
• 2021-10-04: Support was added for a new Etherpad plugin Comments and annotations

September 2021

• 2021-09-22: DOWN We updated our server's operating system to Debian 11. There were approximately 20 minutes of downtime due to the updates.
• 2021-09-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension External Content
• 2021-09-09: Support was added for a new Miraheze extension MirahezeMagic ReCaptcha
• 2021-09-09: Support was added for a new Miraheze extension GlobalNewFiles
• 2021-09-09: Support was added for a new Miraheze extension RemovePII
• 2021-09-08: We added request rate limiting to prevent outages caused by spikes of high number of requests per second. Do let us know if you encounter issues with normal use of the site.

August 2021

• 2021-08-23: Support was removed for a project DiBabel
• 2021-08-10: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Growth Experiments - Mentorship
• 2021-08-05: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Discourse
• 2021-08-02: Support was removed for a project COVID Ratio

July 2021

• 2021-07-29: Support was removed for a project MAZI Toolkit
• 2021-07-28: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin Lakeus
• 2021-07-23: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Growth Experiments - Mentorship API
• 2021-07-19: Support was added for a new project Wikimedia Mailman Templates
• 2021-07-15: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Report
• 2021-07-06: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Per Page Language
• 2021-07-04: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Media Search

June 2021

• 2021-06-22: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Plausible
• 2021-06-22: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension PageViewInfoGA
• 2021-06-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension EmbedVideo - StarCitizen
• 2021-06-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Short Description
• 2021-06-14: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin BlueLL

May 2021

• 2021-05-24: Support was added for a new project Wikimedia OCR
• 2021-05-23: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension MW Version Info
• 2021-05-23: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Acrolinx
• 2021-05-16: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Auto Gallery
• 2021-05-12: DOWN Site was down for 6 minutes due to faulty deployment, and there were user interface message display issues for 30 minutes after that. Documentation
• 2021-05-11: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension NCBI Taxonomy Lookup

April 2021

• 2021-04-25: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Legal Login
• 2021-04-20: Support was added for a new project Cita
• 2021-04-19: Support was added for a new project Twinkle
• 2021-04-14: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Merge Articles
• 2021-04-14: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Content Transfer
• 2021-04-14: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Rate Page
• 2021-04-13: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Blue Spice Flagged Revs Connector
• 2021-04-05: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Gravatar

March 2021

• 2021-03-17: Support was added for a new project EDTF
• 2021-03-10: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Blue Spice Player
• 2021-03-09: Support was added for a new project Wikidata Lexeme Forms

February 2021

• 2021-02-22: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Use Resource
• 2021-02-22: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Lock Author
• 2021-02-11: Behavior of statistics has changed:
  • Translated optional are counted in both total and translated (previously they were not)
  • All language & message group statistics were refreshed to apply this change and correct any statistics that were outdated
• 2021-02-11: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin Onyx
• 2021-02-11: Support was added for a new project Wikisource Export
• 2021-02-03: Behavior of translation exports has changed:
  • Languages under export threshold are now updated if they have already been exported earlier.
  • Languages under removal threshold will be deleted. By default it is 0%, meaning that files with no non-outdated translations will be deleted. The removal threshold can be configured per project in the same way as export threshold.
• 2021-02-03: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikispeech Speech Data Collector

January 2021

• 2021-01-20: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Cognitive Process Designer
• 2021-01-12: Support was added for a new project Miraheze Landing
• 2021-01-07: Support was added for a new project VideoCutTool
• 2021-01-05: Support was added for a new project COVID Ratio
• 2021-01-03: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin Mirage

December 2020

• 2020-12-31: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin Gu Max DD
• 2020-12-26: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Save Spinner
• 2020-12-23: Support was added for a new project Toolhub
• 2020-12-18: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikibase Statement Updater
• 2020-12-02: Support was added for a new project Anvesha

November 2020

• 2020-11-28: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Challenge
• 2020-11-24: Support was added for a new project Wikidata Query Builder
• 2020-11-22: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Head Script
• 2020-11-19: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Collapsible Sections
• 2020-11-19: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Ajax Show Editors
• 2020-11-03: Support was added for a new project Wikimedia Czech Republic's website

October 2020

• 2020-10-27: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Flex Diagrams
• 2020-10-27: Support was added for a new project SWViewer.
• 2020-10-10: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Sports Teams
• 2020-10-08: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin Cosmos
• 2020-10-06: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension FanBoxes
• 2020-10-04: Support was added for a new MediaWiki skin Medik.
• 2020-10-02: Support was added for 3 new MediaWiki extensions BlockASN, Debounce and GTag.
• 2020-10-01: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikibase Local Media extension.
• 2020-10-01: DOWN There was approximately 3 minutes of downtime because of a faulty configuration change.

September 2020

• 2020-09-29: Support was removed for a MediaWiki extension LangCodeOverride
• 2020-09-25: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Tiny MCE
• 2020-09-24: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Structured Navigation
• 2020-09-24: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Page Magic
• 2020-09-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension IP Info
• 2020-09-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Drawio Editor
• 2020-09-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikibase Manifest
• 2020-09-16: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Picture Games
• 2020-09-09: DOWN There was approximately 12 minutes of downtime because of a faulty deployment.
• 2020-09-06: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension WikiLambda - API
• 2020-09-04: Support was re-added for a the MediaWiki extension Magic Numbered Headings

August 2020

• 2020-08-24: Support was added for a new project DiBabel
• 2020-08-17: Support was re-added for a new MediaWiki extension RandomGameUnit
• 2020-08-17: Support was re-added for a new MediaWiki extension Mini Invite
• 2020-08-09: Support was re-added for a new MediaWiki extension Blog Page
• 2020-08-02: Support was re-added for a new project Social Profile

July 2020

• 2020-07-30: Support was added for a new project Wikipedia Preview
• 2020-07-29: DOWN There was approximately 6 minutes of downtime because of an incorrect configuration change.
• 2020-07-29: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Discussion Tools - API
• 2020-07-29: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Cite Drawer
• 2020-07-29: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Popup Alerts
• 2020-07-29: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension S5 Slide Show
• 2020-07-29: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension WS OAuth
• 2020-07-29: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikimedia Api Portal OAuth
• 2020-07-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension WikiLambda
• 2020-07-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension OAuth Rate Limiter

June 2020

• 2020-06-22: Support was added for a new project WPCleaner.
• 2020-06-18: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Network
• 2020-06-13: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Global Watchlist - Script
• 2020-06-13: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Global Watchlist - API
• 2020-06-13: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Global Watchlist
• 2020-06-09: Support was removed for project Crosswatch.

May 2020

• 2020-05-29: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Twitter Tag.
• 2020-05-29: Support was added for a new project Convenient Discussions.
• 2020-05-20: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension User Protect.
• 2020-05-18: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Page Exchange.
• 2020-05-11: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Semantic Image Caption.
• 2020-05-07: Support was removed for project BitmarkInc/Spring mobile apps.
• 2020-05-04: Support was added for a new project Kiwix Desktop.

April 2020

• 2020-04-19: Support was re-added for a new MediaWiki extension Wiki Share
• 2020-04-17: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension ConfirmEdit hCaptcha
• 2020-04-13: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Push Notifications
• 2020-04-08: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Wikispeech
• 2020-04-07: Support was removed for project COVID-19 posters

March 2020

• 2020-03-28: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Dumps On Demand
• 2020-03-26: Support was added for a new project BookReader
• 2020-03-25: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Generate Mocha Config
• 2020-03-25: Support was added for a new project COVID-19 posters
• 2020-03-18: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension SimpleBatchUpload
• 2020-03-18: Support was added for a new project Page Content Service
• 2020-03-14: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Config Manager
• 2020-03-05: Support was added for a new project QRmedia
• 2020-03-04: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Nearby Pages
• 2020-03-02: DOWN There was approximately 5 minutes of downtime because of an incorrect configuration change.
• 2020-03-01: Support was added for a new MediaWiki extension Media Moderation

February 2020

• 2020-02-26: Support was added for a new project Wikistats 2.0
• 2020-02-25: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Lüüdi
• 2020-02-19: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Shibboleth
• 2020-02-19: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Link Attributes
• 2020-02-11: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Event Stream Config
• 2020-02-05: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Abuse Filter Bypass

January 2020

• 2020-01-20: DOWN There was approximately 7 minutes of downtime because of an incorrect configuration change.
• 2020-01-18: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Google Authenticator
• 2020-01-17: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Sofa
• 2020-01-04: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Chess Browser
• 2020-01-04: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Wanted Pages From NS
• 2020-01-04: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Doc Book Export

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