Wikimedia Beta Cluster

The Wikimedia Beta Cluster, commonly referred to as merely Beta Cluster, is a small wiki farm of test wiki sites running the latest alpha version of  (MW), along with  and the plethora of other current s for s. Hosted on , the main portal is at Beta.WMFLabs.org. Sometimes incorrectly called 'Beta labs', the WMF Beta Cluster is maintained by. Beta Cluster is not intended for research or other serious use of content. The Beta Cluster is a functional, production-like environment in the that is suitable for final-stage  of new features. It runs off git master, and has its  core and extensions code updated about every ten minutes. Beta Cluster is one of the <Wikimedia Foundation ></Wikimedia Foundation> (WMF). It uses its own login separate from production, so for example, an account for En.Wikipedia.Beta.WMFLabs.org</tt> (English Wikipedia beta) also works on En.Wikisource.Beta.WMFLabs.org</tt> (English Wikisource beta), En.Wikinews.Beta.WMFLabs.org</tt> (English Wikinews beta), En.Wiktionary.Beta.WMFLabs.org</tt> (English Wiktionary beta), En.Wikibooks.Beta.WMFLabs.org</tt> (English Wikibooks beta), En.Wikivoyage.Beta.WMFLabs.org</tt> (English Wikivoyage beta), Wikidata.Beta.WMFLabs.org</tt> (Wikimedia Wikidata beta), etc, but not on any production wiki.

It should be noted that whilst all 'projects' of the Wikimedia Foundation have their equivalent English language site on Beta Cluster, most of the other existing language versions (except for a very small selection) of their projects are not included on Beta Cluster, as is evident from the main page of the English Wiktionary beta. (As of: 2022-11-17)


 * ''See also
 * Wikimedia Meta-Wiki — the main meta for the entire Wikimedia Foundation
 * Wikimedia Wikitech — public documentation used by the site admins running the Wikimedia Foundation's servers


 * ''External links


 * Special:SiteMatrix – list of Wikimedia wikis hosted on Wikimedia Beta Cluster
 * — on MediaWiki.org
 * — on Wikimedia Wikitech
 * — on MediaWiki.org, explaining why one should always use the correct name!