MediaWiki 1.19/Communications

Communications plan
Aim: spread the word that the deployments are gonna probably be coming in February, and tell them 3 things:
 * 1) test now!!  on the test deployment site for your wiki!  I'm especially looking at you, Commons or sites with unusual gadgets or something!
 * 2) Do you have some unusual technical thing -- user scripts, gadgets, unique bots, etc. -- set up on your wiki such that we should stagger you in a different stage than we had thought?


 * Initial heads-up sent by Sumana to wikitech-l, wikitech-ambassadors

Pre-deployment heads-up distribution list

 * [//techblog.wikimedia.org Wikimedia tech blog], mail:wikimediaannounce-l, mail:wikitech-l, mail:wikitech-ambassadors, mail:translators-l, m:Global message delivery

Pre-deployment heads-up message

 * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical.ambassadors/31
 * MediaWiki 1.19
 * MediaWiki 1.19/Roadmap
 * m:User:Krinkle/Le Tour de Wikí/2011 Resource Walker
 * ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)
 * 34147
 * ResourceLoader/JavaScript Deprecations
 * ResourceLoader/Default modules — Need to be declared explicitly if used
 * http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Problem_reports
 * Upcoming ResourceLoader IRC workshop

Deployment notice

 * Generic maintenance notice
 * m:Wikimedia maintenance notice

1.19 release
Channels: mediawiki-l, mediawiki-announce, Wikimedia blog, social media channels. See also Release checklist