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

[Timothy J. Crowell]

Special:Giverollback does not seem to be working on tech.wikia.com,
this may be caused by the MediaWiki upgrade.

-Timothy

On Dec 25, 2007 2:11 PM, JohnQ <johnq at wikia.com> wrote:
> 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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