Reading/Web/Release timeline

This page attempts to track notable changes that impact the reading web experience in production (over the past 2 years). These will usually have an associated SWAT deploy due to the fact that the reading web team makes heavy use of feature flags.

🎂 is used to mark releases the team feels are worth celebrating and usually mark the end of a long line of work.

February
17th

New language overlay shown to 10% of users

April
26th

Lazy loaded references enabled in beta.

May
9th

Lazy loaded images on Bengali Wikipedia

June
6th

Enable page previews A/B test for 50% of users on Hungarian Wikipedia

14th

Lazy loaded images on Ukrainian and Farsi Wikipedia's

30th

Lazy loaded images on Tagalog Wikipedia

July
5th

Lazy loaded images on Japanese wikipedia

12th

Lazy loaded images and references on Thai Wiki

18th

Lazy loaded images and references on Russian Wiki

August
4th

🎂 New language switcher launched to all wikis

17th

🎂 Lazy loaded images enabled on mobile

30th

Enable wikidata descriptions on all but 6 wikis

Lazy loaded references experiments ended

October
3rd

Wikidata descriptions on Japanese and Spanish wikis

RelatedArticles enabled on mobile for all but 6 wikis

🎂 New footer pushed to mobile

11th

Disable bottom language button in Minerva

December
5th

Wikidata descriptions enabled on French and German Wikipedia

RelatedArticles enabled on Japanese and Spanish Wikipedia

January
19th

🎂 Wikidata descriptions shown on English Wikipedia

February
2nd

RelatedArticles shown to 90% of users

21st

Reading depth schema deployed

23rd

New mobile header rolled out to cawiki and itwiki

March
20th

Page images restricted to lead section

29th

🎂 New header rolled out to mobile web

April
3rd

Wikidata descriptions disabled in English Wikipedia

4th

ES3 JavaScript support dropped

5th

Page previews enabled on Hungarian and Hebrew Wikipedia

13th

Related pages enabled on Haitan wikipedia (desktop)

20th

Non-JavaScript users can edit mobile site

May
2nd

🎂 Related pages enabled for everyone

Print styles enabled for Minerva

3rd

Wikivoyage switches to new version of RelatedArticles

24th

🎂 First paragraph moved before infobox on all projects

June
2nd

Electron rolled out to all projects

7th

A/B test launched on RelatedArticles

14th

Cards removed from cluster

July
11th

Firefox event logging duplicate event bug fixed

17th

Minerva separated from MobileFrontend in production

19th

Stopped RelatedArticles A/B test

August
16th

Page previews launched on all wikis except en and de

28th

Launched Popups A/B test on enwiki and dewiki

September
7th

Disable Wikidata descriptions on all wikipedias.

18th

Stopped page previews A/B test on enwiki and dewiki.

25th

Disabled RelatedArticles instrumentation

October
9th

Enabled print styles on Vector on test wiki