And of course Special:Version code has changed since the last time I ran that code, meaning there is really no reliable way to know what version of MediaWiki Wikipedia is running anyway.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > We always run the latest trunk and encounter few if any issues. The > problems we do encounter usually involve extensions breaking. > > I had implemented a policy of keeping up to date with Wikipedia using this > cute bit of code: > > svn update -r $(($(wget -q -O- > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version | grep pathrev | sed -r > 's/.*pathrev=([0-9]{5,}).*/\1/')+10)) > > But WMF became so out of date that it became very problematic. What happens > is that MediaWiki's newer code breaks an extension. The extension maker then > fixes their extension which breaks backwards compatibility with previous > versions of MediaWiki. But this means using a version of MediaWiki that has > bugs. It really is kind of a nightmare trying to find a tradeoff between > working versions of MediaWiki and working versions of your extensions and > sometimes the only solution is to disable an extension until either it > catches up or MediaWiki catches up. > > Someday we will have a solution to this problem I hope.. > > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Wikimedia's copy of MediaWiki has been updated to r51904 (r51864 for >> extensions). There were lots of fun bugs, the most exciting of which >> are now fixed. >> >> Developers, please check the bug tracker for bugs reported against >> code that you maintain, or bugs that you can otherwise fix. Users, >> please report any bugs you notice there, after doing a search for >> duplicates, even if you also report them in other places such as IRC >> or [[WP:VPT]]. >> >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ >> >> Please do not discourage users from reporting "known issues", point >> them to the bug report so that they can give us a priority hint in a >> comment. It's hard to prioritise bug fixes when we don't know how many >> people are affected or how severe the issue is. >> >> -- Tim Starling >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
