[Wikia-l] MW 1.12 upgrade starting next week...

[JohnQ]

Hi everyone,

For the last few weeks we've been working on a MediaWiki 1.12 upgrade 
(we're currently at 1.10a). As you know, doing an upgrade is a fair 
amount of work for us because we have to check all the extensions that 
are in use across Wikia (~100 at last count - and that's a whole 'nother 
topic of interest). Several extensions, particularly those involved in 
uploading images, needed to be rewritten in order to work with the 
latest MediaWiki version. Our internal testing is complete... and last 
week we rolled out the 1.12 upgrade on 1000 of our least used wikis and 
so far so good.

At the beginning of next week, we'll start to roll this upgrade out to 
the rest of Wikia *except* the wikis listed below (~30). The last 
MediaWiki rollout went pretty smoothly... we hope this one will too, 
however there is more of a delta between 1.10a and 1.12 than the upgrade 
we did back in August. As we roll this out, please bear with us as we 
find and fix any issues that come up.

Thanks,
John Q.


These wikis will *not* have 1.12 in the next release. Depending on how 
smoothly the release goes early next week, we'll make a call on whether 
to also upgrade these next week or whether to resume the upgrades the 
first week of January.

wiki.ffxiclopedia.org
wowwiki.com
halo.wikia.com
callofduty.wikia.com
tabularasa.wikia.com
masseffect.wikia.com
*.gamewikis.org
*.memory-alpha.org
*.marveldatabase.com
kennisnet.wikia.com
starwars.wikia.com
yugioh.wikia.com
eq2.wikia.com
uncyclopedia.org
nonsensopedia.wikia.com
nonciclopedia.wikia.com
dofus.wikia.com
runescape.wikia.com
muppet.wikia.com
finalfantasy.wikia.com
inciclopedia.wikia.com
transformers.wikia.com
desencyclopedie.wikia.com
evchk.wikia.com