Dantman et al.,

Please don't concern yourself with running an 'alpha' version.
The MediaWiki code base is kept in a 'ready-to-run' state.
If it is good enough for Wikipedia, it is good enough for Wikia.

Remember that Wikipedia runs alpha versions persistently...

The _slight_ advantage to running official releases or shortly thereafter is
all the community testing.
Although most mini-sites don't upgrade until an official release, regular
tarballs are available and arguably as stable as any numbered release.

I also prefer 1.11.0, but a number of fixes have since been released and
ultimately the latest is a better product.
Keep you eyes peeled for revisions and bug fixes; I think you will agree.

We all have our sights set on 1.13.0; patience is a virtue...


Merry Christmas and to all a stable-build!



-- 
Jamie Hari
Editor-in-Chief
Marvel & DC Database Projects


On 12/26/07, Timothy J. Crowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Special:Giverollback does not seem to be working on tech.wikia.com,
> this may be caused by the MediaWiki upgrade.
>
> -Timothy
>
> On Dec 25, 2007 2:11 PM, JohnQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Usually, running hotter is a temporary issue until we figure what new
> > setting could be effecting it. It'll be back to normal shortly. :)
> >
> > Sorry for just a brief note... in the middle of xmas. :)
> >
> > Leia Yeung wrote:
> > > JohnQ said that 1.12a was running "hotter on the apaches than 1.10a."
> > > Maybe running 1.11 might be a good idea.
> > >
> > > On Dec 25, 2007 5:24 AM, Jesús Martínez < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I'm wondering if the {{filepath:}} addition is causing the problem
> > >     with images: <http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Random_site_slowness
> >
> > >     I'm not using it on this wikia, but maybe internally is doing some
> > >     kind of "parser" or something for every image in the page.
> > >
> > >     2007/12/25, DanTMan wrote:
> > >     >
> > >     >  We've had <imagemap> for quite some time and it's been working
> > >     out.
> > >     > {{filepath:}} is nice, but when we already have other options
> > >     and people
> > >     > haven't been hardwired to depend on it yet, it's not worth the
> > >     instability
> > >     > elsewhere.
> > >     >  That is just a simple addition to MediaWiki, it's quite
> > >     possible anyways to
> > >     > install 1.11 then just find the commit that added {{filepath:}}
> > >     and add
> > >     > those changes to 1.11. Then we'd have 1.11, and filepath.
> > >     >  ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
> > >     > -The Gaiapedia ( http://gaia.wikia.com)
> > >     > -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com <http://Wikia.com>
> > >     (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
> > >     > -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
> > >     >  Timothy J. Crowell wrote:
> > >     >  I think {{filepath:}} alone is worth going with MediaWiki 1.12.
> > >     >
> > >     > -Timothy
> > >     >
> > >     > On Dec 25, 2007 1:24 AM, DanTMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > >     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >  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...
> > >     >  --
> > >     > ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
> > >     > -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
> > >     > -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com <http://Wikia.com>
> > >     (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
> > >     > -and Wiki-Tools.com ( http://wiki-tools.com)
> > >     >
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