Currently the revision number on Special:Version only shows the revision number we are currently check out-ed or updated by default. By customising the message "version-svn-revision" to include the $1 value to show the revision number which was last modified. That I was intended to be done before.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:47 AM To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Code updated > 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 But WMF became so out of date that it became very problematic.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
