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

[DanTMan]

We've had <imagemap> for quite some time and it's been working out. 
{{filepath:}} is nice, but when we already have other options and people 
haven't been hardwired to depend on it yet, it's not worth the 
instability elsewhere.
That is just a simple addition to MediaWiki, it's quite possible anyways 
to install 1.11 then just find the commit that added {{filepath:}} and 
add those changes to 1.11. Then we'd have 1.11, and filepath.

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
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Timothy J. Crowell wrote:
> I think {{filepath:}} alone is worth going with MediaWiki 1.12.
>
> -Timothy
>
> On Dec 25, 2007 1:24 AM, DanTMan <dan_the_man at telus.net> wrote:
>   
>>  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...
>>  --
>> ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
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>> -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
>> -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
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