[Wikia-l] MediaWiki 1.12 upgrade, what's the benefit?

[DanTMan]

I'd like to ask a bit of a question of the techs.

    /What's the benefit of upgrading to MediaWiki 1.12?/


Checking on the issues with the upgrade recently I realized that many of 
the new features for Wikia that I listed are actually not included in 
the revision that Wikia has. I hunted down what ones, and made an edit 
to the page. This is the new list of new features:
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki_1.12/new_features

I hardly think that {{filepath:}} and a tweak to the title on history 
pages is enough to warrant going into an unstable alpha version of 
MediaWiki.

My proposal is one of two options:
* Revert to MediaWiki 1.11.0 - Why? It's more stable than an alpha 
version, there are less bugfixes to apply because you are running code 
which had new bugs added before your revision but fixed after, and it 
still has all the good features that we are seeing from the upgrade.
* Upgrade further to a more recent revision of MediaWiki 1.12a - Why? 
We're missing nearly every advantage of 1.12 over 1.11 on our current 
revision and a more recent revision will be much more valuable for 
Wikia, more recent revisions also contain an alteration to the Parser, 
this alteration is the one that Angela mentioned that reduces the load 
that ParserFunctions and Templates cause, and could potentially reduce 
the current issues with a MW1.12a memory leak.

Just my thoughts...

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~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)

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