I'd like to ask a bit of a question of the techs.
/What's the benefit of upgrading to MediaWiki 1.12?/
Checking on the issues with the upgrade recently I realized that many of
the new features for Wikia that I listed are actually not included in
the revision that Wikia has. I hunted down what ones, and made an edit
to the page. This is the new list of new features:
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki_1.12/new_features
I hardly think that {{filepath:}} and a tweak to the title on history
pages is enough to warrant going into an unstable alpha version of
MediaWiki.
My proposal is one of two options:
* Revert to MediaWiki 1.11.0 - Why? It's more stable than an alpha
version, there are less bugfixes to apply because you are running code
which had new bugs added before your revision but fixed after, and it
still has all the good features that we are seeing from the upgrade.
* Upgrade further to a more recent revision of MediaWiki 1.12a - Why?
We're missing nearly every advantage of 1.12 over 1.11 on our current
revision and a more recent revision will be much more valuable for
Wikia, more recent revisions also contain an alteration to the Parser,
this alteration is the one that Angela mentioned that reduces the load
that ParserFunctions and Templates cause, and could potentially reduce
the current issues with a MW1.12a memory leak.
Just my thoughts...
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~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
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