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

[JohnQ]

Usually, running hotter is a temporary issue until we figure what new 
setting could be effecting it. It'll be back to normal shortly. :)

Sorry for just a brief note... in the middle of xmas. :)

Leia Yeung wrote:
> JohnQ said that 1.12a was running "hotter on the apaches than 1.10a." 
> Maybe running 1.11 might be a good idea.
>
> On Dec 25, 2007 5:24 AM, Jesús Martínez < martineznovo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:martineznovo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm wondering if the {{filepath:}} addition is causing the problem
>     with images: <http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Random_site_slowness>
>     I'm not using it on this wikia, but maybe internally is doing some
>     kind of "parser" or something for every image in the page.
>
>     2007/12/25, DanTMan wrote:
>     >
>     >  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:
>     > -The Gaiapedia ( http://gaia.wikia.com)
>     > -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com <http://Wikia.com>
>     (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
>     > -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
>     >  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
>     <mailto: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:
>     > -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
>     > -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com <http://Wikia.com>
>     (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
>     > -and Wiki-Tools.com ( http://wiki-tools.com)
>     >
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