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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 {{tag|MediaWiki}} (MW), along with {{tag|Wikibase}} and the plethora of other current {{tag|MediaWiki extension}}s for {{tag|MediaWiki developer}}s.  Hosted on {{tag|Wikimedia Cloud VPS}}, the main portal is at <tt>[https://Beta.WMFLabs.org Beta.WMFLabs.org]</tt>.  Sometimes incorrectly called 'Beta labs', the WMF Beta Cluster is maintained by {{Mw|Wikimedia Release Engineering Team|Wikimedia Release Engineering}}.  Beta Cluster is not intended for [[:Category:Research|research]] or other serious use of content.  The Beta Cluster is a functional, production-like environment in the {{Wikitech|Help:Cloud Services Introduction|Cloud VPS}} that is suitable for final-stage {{tag|testing}} of new features.  It runs off [[:Category:Git|git]] master, and has its {{tag|MediaWiki}} core and extensions code updated about every ten minutes.  Beta Cluster is one of the {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} (WMF) {{WMF-Meta|Wikimedia wikis#Test wikis|test wikis}}.  It uses its own {{Mw|Extension:CentralAuth|SUL}} login separate from production, so for example, an account for <tt>[https://En.Wikipedia.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Main_Page En.Wikipedia.Beta.WMFLabs.org]</tt> ([[English Wikipedia]] beta) also works on <tt>[https://En.Wikisource.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Main_Page En.Wikisource.Beta.WMFLabs.org]</tt> ([[English Wikisource]] beta), <tt>[https://En.Wikinews.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Main_Page En.Wikinews.Beta.WMFLabs.org]</tt> ([[English Wikinews]] beta), <tt>[https://En.Wiktionary.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page En.Wiktionary.Beta.WMFLabs.org]</tt> ([[English Wiktionary]] beta), <tt>[https://En.Wikibooks.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Main_Page En.Wikibooks.Beta.WMFLabs.org]</tt> ([[Wikibooks (English)|English Wikibooks]] beta), <tt>[https://En.Wikivoyage.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Main_Page En.Wikivoyage.Beta.WMFLabs.org]</tt> ([[English Wikivoyage]] beta), <tt>[https://Wikidata.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Wikidata.Beta.WMFLabs.org]</tt> ([[Wikimedia Wikidata]] beta), etc, but <u>not</u> on any production wiki.

It should be noted that whilst all 'projects' of the Wikimedia Foundation have their equivalent [[:Category:Wiki English|English language]] site on Beta Cluster, most of the other existing [[:Category:Wiki language|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.[https://En.Wiktionary.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page]
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;''See also
*[[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] — the main [[:Category:Meta|meta]] for the entire Wikimedia Foundation
*[[Wikimedia Wikitech]] — public documentation used by the site admins running the Wikimedia Foundation's servers

;''External links
{{WikiApiary-farm|Wikimedia Beta Cluster|279261}}
*[https://Meta.Wikimedia.Beta.WMFLabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix Special:SiteMatrix – list of Wikimedia wikis hosted on Wikimedia Beta Cluster]
*{{Mw|Beta Cluster}} — on [[MediaWiki.org]]
*{{Wikitech|Nova Resource:Deployment-prep|Beta Cluster}} — on [[Wikimedia Wikitech]]
*{{Mw|Beta beta beta}} — on MediaWiki.org, explaining why one should always use the correct name!
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