Back in July, we had a lengthy discussion about the possibility of
switching to HTML5:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-July/043865.html

The conclusion appeared to be that switching to HTML5 was a good idea.
 As of July 12 (r53142), MediaWiki has been outputting HTML5
continuously as the default:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/53142

There have been only a few minor problems reported by various trunk
users, all of which were quickly fixed.  The current state of HTML5
support is discussed here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTML5

When we had our last scap six weeks ago, $wgHtml5 was disabled on
Wikimedia to reduce the number of variables to keep track of, since a
huge amount of code was changing at once.  Although we're currently in
the middle of some organizational issues due to Brion's resignation, I
think it would be safe to experimentally turn on $wgHtml5 and see what
happens.  If any problems are reported that can't be fixed
immediately, of course, it could be turned off again, but I think this
is quite unlikely.  I'll be available for the next few weeks to work
on any issues that arise.  Would this be okay?

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