https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30519
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Bug #: 30519
Summary: Request to supply a working, up-to-date mediawiki
version based on the current Wikipedia version
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
The Wikipedia Foundation uses the Wikipedia-content-model (fast development,
mass-review) also for continuous software integration for the mediawiki version
running the Wikipedias.
It used to be possible for other sites to benefit from this. Starting with
mediawiki 1.16, this was given up and the continuous integration separated into
the wmf branches. Since then the choice seems to be a highly unstable
development only version or traditional yearly volumes of "stable" but
completely out of date releases.
Testing of the current 1.17wmf shows that this version contains is indeed very
hard to re-use and after several bug reports I was advised not to use the wmf
software.
The alternative 1.17, released in June 2011, lacks much functionality that is
already well known from Wikipedias: No WikiLove, no working ArticleFeedback or
UploadWizard (the 1.17 "stable" version of the upload wizards says "This
extension is currently experimental and almost certainly won't work for you
(yet). We anticipate having a working version in late October / early November
2010"). Many more current Wikipedia feature are highly dated in the stable
version. All these features are available in the 1.17wmf, but this version is
built so it works only on wmf servers (e.g., the database updates in
maintenance are disabled).
I submit this bug in the hope of initiating a thought process, whether this has
to be so. I understand all of lack of time, resource constraints, ...
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