NOTE: this is blocked until development and instrumentation of the collapsible sidebar & max-width is complete. It is blocked on T254228 being resolved first.
Background
After building out our collapsible sidebar and fixed width for articles, we will be ready to make our first deployment to our test wikis. We will do this in two steps to allow for sufficient QA. To learn more about our release plan, please see our project page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Opting_in_and_Release_Plan
Deployment schedule
| project | Wed. July 22 | Tues. July 28 | Wed. July 29 |
| euwiki (Basque Wikipedia) | x | ||
| fawiki (Persian Wikipedia) | x | ||
| frwiki (French Wikipedia) | x | ||
| frwiktionary (French Wiktionary) | x | ||
| hewiki (Hebrew Wikipedia) | x | ||
| ptwikiversity (Portuguese Wikiversity) | x | ||
Note Office Wiki is already enabled by default.
Acceptance criteria
Step 1:
- Switch the default of the following wikis to the new version of the vector skin: euwiki, frwiktionary, ptwikiversity
Step 2:
- Switch the default of the following wikis to the new version of the vector skin:, fawiki, hewiki
Step 3
- frwiki
- Feature flag states:
- Preference - on
- Default - on
- Sidebar closed by default - off
- Sidebar instrumentation - on
- Max width - on
Questions
- If we're changing anonymous presentation, what will we do about cached HTML? Do we have to purge the whole cache?
- Are there more changes planned that will significantly impact the HTML? For example, moving the search bar. Do the caching implications change the deployment strategy?