Site updates/2017

This is an archive of all 2017 Site updates. See Site updates for current ones

Site Updates: December 2017
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This is the last site update for 2017, and I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2785

Total number of wiki requests: 4168

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis

Other

 * We have upgraded to MediaWiki 1.30!

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Site Updates: November 2017
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Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2690

Total number of wiki requests: 4046

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis

New extensions/skins
HAWelcome

Other

 * We have upgraded to 1.29.2 (security release)

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Site Updates: October 2017
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Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2575

Total number of wiki requests: 3894

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis

New extensions/skins
-

Other

 * There have been two incidents this month regarding database space. As I (Reception123) am now part of the Site Reliabilty Engineering team I plan on making sure that this does not happen again, as I will be closely monitoring disk space.

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Site Updates: September 2017
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Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2500

Total number of wiki requests: 3771

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis

New extensions/skins
Score

AddThis

MagicNoCache

Other

 * Two factor authentification is now possible for all users!

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Site Updates: August 2017
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Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2412

Total number of wiki requests: 3624

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis

New extensions/skins
Moderation

Other
On the 13th of August, we finally upgraded to the latest version of MediaWiki 1.29 (and 1.29.1 release on the 26th)!

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Site Updates: July 2017
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Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2305

Total number of wiki requests: 3485

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis See Miraheze-2-year

New extensions/skins
PdfBook Note: currently not working

Other
A few days ago we celebrated Miraheze's 2 year anniversary!. You may check that page for more interesting statistics and the survey results!

MediaWiki 1.29 is finally out (for a few weeks). We are testing test1 a new test server, and the 1.29 upgrade should happen soon.

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Site Updates: June 2017
It's the third month since I've restarted Site updates. Feel free to give me suggestions for what else to add to Site Updates!

Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2245

Total number of wiki requests: 3366

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis

New extensions/skins
EventLogging

GuidedTour

Other
As you probably have noticed, from the 15th to the 26th this month, we've had issue with uploading files as well as 503s. These were caused due to an issue with our NFS system, and they have been resolved.

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Draft for May 2017 site updates

Site Updates: May 2017
It's the second month since I've restarted Site updates. Feel free to give me suggestions for what else to add to Site Updates!

Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2155

Total number of wiki requests: 3176

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis

New extensions/skins
CustomHeader

New additions
Special:ManageWiki - first step of the project, it now allows you to change a few settings (sitename, private, language, closed). More settings should be available soon (T194 on Phabricator)

Other
We have upgraded to 1.28.2 (MediaWiki security release) and we should soon upgrade to the new MediaWiki version, 1.29 as soon as it is released as stable.

Also, if you are interested in contributing to Miraheze in any way please see Contributing and Miraheze Vacancies.

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Draft for April 2017 site updates

Site Updates: April 2017
Site updates are back! I've decided to restart this project as I thought now that the community is bigger it would be interesting to have site updates again and present different statistics here. Feel free to give me suggestions for what else to add to Site Updates!

Statistics
Wikis hosted: 2102

Total number of wiki requests: 3020

10 largest wikis:

See User:Reception123/Top 10 wikis

New Extensions and Skins:
 * BootstrapMediawiki (skin) )
 * CrossReference (extension)

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