Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-28/Technology report

In anticipation of the upcoming MediaWiki Developer Summit and the Wikimedia Foundation's own "All-Hands", a thread was started on the wikitech-l mailing list discussing the future of the architecture committee, which changed direction into discussions about what a potential MediaWiki 2.0 might look like. At the same time, another thread was started discussing the future of MediaWiki running on shared hosting and about foundation's (lack of) support for third-parties, and whether it was even worth continuing to support their usage of MediaWiki. Both threads are still on-going.

Office hours

 * MediaWiki RfC meeting (logs)
 * Support for user-specific page lists in core: An RfC to revamp the watchlist database schema and allow for arbitrary lists of pages
 * Guidelines for extracting, publishing and managing libraries: A discussion about the proposed guidelines, which was subsequently moved to mw:Manual:Developing libraries.
 * Wikidata office hours (logs)

Tech news

 * Tech news is prepared by tech ambassadors on Meta-Wiki


 * The Wikipedia App for Android was updated (blog post).
 * The regularly scheduled software deployments are on hold for the next two weeks (announcement).