Hi,

2009/5/20 Tisza GergÅ‘ <[email protected]>:
> The latest stable MediaWiki branch is usually 3-6 months behind the one used 
> on
> the Wikimedia sites, which can be a problem when one wants to import text from
> Wikipedia, use recent extensions, create a Wikipedia-related testwiki etc. The
> trunk, on the other hand, is unreliable; the best solution is to use the exact
> same revision which runs on the live sites, but that is somewhat inconvenient 
> to
> do manually. It would be nice to have a "live" branch or tag that contains the
> same version that is used on Wikipedia.
> (Or maybe it might be even better if the branch follows Wikipedia's version 
> with
> a few days delay - sometimes serious errors are found only when an update is
> pushed to Wikipedia, but those are always fixed very quickly.)

You can find the revision number at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version and simply check out
trunk at that revision.

Robert

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