The WikiData item doesn't contain enough information, it only lists the stable version number. All the situations I've come up with require the kind of detailed information we have on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
- Major release numbers - Minor release numbers - What ones are current, legacy, and obsolete - Is a release LTS or in development For example, my current idea is making http://shorturls.redwerks.org/ display a warning reminding about obsolete wiki and missing security updates when it sees a meta[generator] for an old release. For that I need to know what release is current, what are legacy, what are LTS, and what the current point release for each current and legacy release is. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] On 2014-09-18 4:25 PM, Markus Glaser wrote: > Hi Brian, > > on mediawiki-enterprise-l, Derric Atzrott suggested we use the respective > WikiData item for up-to-date MediaWiki version information: > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83 > > It's machine readable, could easily be queried and probably converted into > other formats as needed. It is also very easy to include updating this item > into our release workflow. > > Do you think this fits your needs? > > Best, > Markus > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Brian Wolff > Gesendet: Freitag, 19. September 2014 00:54 > An: Wikimedia developers > Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Release workflow recommendation] A public releases > JSON file. > > On 9/18/14, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Every once in awhile I've found an idea for a service which would for >> one reason or another need to know what releases of MediaWiki exist >> and which ones are obsolete. >> >> As far as I know, we don't have any sort of API or machine readable >> metadata at all declaring this information for services to use. > Once upon a time we did: > https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/MWReleases/?pathrev=81635 > (I believe that was actually deployed around 1.17-ish). > > I guess you could still just fetch > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:MW_stable_release_number to get the > info, but having a json file somewhere sounds like a good idea provided > there's actually people wanting to use it and it wouldn't inconvenience > whomever is charged with updating it too much. > > --bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
