[Wikia-l] MediaWiki: New preprocessor

[Daniel Friesen]

What about enabling it by default in new wiki?

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JaeSharp wrote:
> sannse wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> We don't have a definite schedule yet, although it will certainly be
>> after the upgrade to Mediawiki 1.13
>>
>> A couple of wikis have already switched, and we can manually switch
>> any wiki that wants it.  But we are wary of breaking too many pages
>> with the changed code, so aren't going to do a mass switch without
>> considering how to deal with that.
>>
>> Hopefully the tech guys will have a fuller answer for us soon.  But
>> for now, just contact the Community Team if you want a specific wiki
>> switched over.
>>
>> -- sannse
>>
>> Lisa "sannse" Carter
>> Wikia Community and Technical Team
>> http://www.wikia.com
>>
>>   
>>     
> Indeed. Due to the breakage that is likely to be inflicted on wikis that
> are not prepared for the new wikitext preprocessor (it changes some
> things about how wikitext is interpreted and can break some templates)
> we decided not to enable it by default. If you're curious about how
> certain templates and pages will appear in the new preprocessor you can
> use the http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:ParserDiffTest/<page title> .
> Once you and your community are confident things won't break, just let
> us know and we can turn on the new preprocessor  :) 
>
> J
>
>   
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Jesús Martínez <martineznovo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I thought the new preprocessor was the default on MediaWiki 1.12, the
>>> version that runs Wikia. But it seems not:
>>> <http://es.pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Usuario:Ciencia_Al_Poder/Pruebas>
>>> <http://es.pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Especial:ParserDiffTest/Usuario:Ciencia_Al_Poder/Pruebas>
>>>
>>> When would it be enabled?
>>>
>>> For those who don't know what I'm talking about:
>>> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor>
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