(From wikitech-l)
In the past couple of weeks I've been talking with Sam Reed (WMF's
current MediaWiki release manager) and Rob Laphiner (WMF's Platform
Engineering Director) about the future of MediaWiki tarballs.
I began this discussion after Rob expressed regret about the WMF's
ability to give tarball distribution the attention it deserves. Since
the WMF is focused on maintaining Wikipedia and its sister projects,
tarball distribution often loses among competing priorities.
The Foundation has made MediaWiki available for everyone and that's a
great thing. But Wikimedia's funding comes from donations as a result
of requests on Wikipedia, not from distribution of MediaWiki, so they
are rightly focused on their production cluster.
Other users of the MediaWiki software have different needs. For
instance, Citizendium, and Wikia and have both pegged their MediaWiki
installations at 1.16.5 for stability and made their own modifications
-- essentially forking the code. Forking is not ideal, but it is
understandable because there is no cooperation around individual
MediaWiki releases over the long term. With a third party to manage
MediaWiki releases and maintain long term support for selected releases,
cooperation between non-WMF users would be smoother.
To this start effort, I welcome interested collaborators from the
community of MediaWiki users outside of the WMF. With your help, we
will start making and maintaining MediaWiki releases based on the core
MediaWiki code without forking development.
I've been discussing this with some MediaWiki sites as well as setting
up a separate mailing list for packagers (such as Debian and RedHat
distributors) and discussing it there. So far the response has been
positive.
So now I'm asking you guys. Any interest?
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On 06/06/2012 02:00 PM, Krenair wrote:
> Just to clarify, as it's not particularly clear to me - you're looking
> for people willing to test, package and release MediaWiki?
> If so, I'd be happy to learn how.
Yes. I am willing to take on the tarball maintenance if needed, but if
you are willing and able, I'll work with you to make sure we have a
working tarball creation and release process from Sam Reed.
But beyond that, we will need testers.
Speaking of testing, if anyone wants to help make sure the 1.19 release
of MediaWiki included in the next Debian package (and probably the next
Ubuntu package) is working, now is the time to test. Debian will soon
freeze their packages for their upcoming stable release.
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/mediawiki
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My name is David, I installed the wiki little time in the company. But I'm sure to add images. I add and they do appear, they get an "x" ... however appear to address them. How do I make them appear? Another question: How to edit the left of the page? eg tools, removing pages especias to non-users, etc.. I hope your help, thank you!
Dear MediaWiki list,
I am using the ToggleDisplay extension
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ToggleDisplay on some wikis,
currently running MediaWiki 1.18 and PHP 5.2. When I try to switch to PHP
5.3, the extension throws up errors saying that a value was provided where
a reference was expected:
Parameter 3 to ExtToggleDisplay::toggleDisplay() expected to be a
reference, value given in *<PATH>/w/includes/parser/Parser.php* on line *
3580*
MediaWiki internal error.
Since upgrading to MediaWiki 1.19 or higher requires a minimum of PHP 5.3,
I am unable to upgrade.
The ToggleDisplay extension page currently says that the extension is not
actively maintained because there is now core functionality in the
MediaWiki software (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Collapsible_elements )that achieves
the same purpose. However, the syntax of that core functionality differs
from that of ToggleDisplay, and I have already used the ToggleDisplay
extension at numerous places. So I'm looking for either of these:
* A fix to the code of the ToggleDisplay extension that will make it
compatible with PHP 5.3, hence with MediaWiki 1.19 and higher.
* A new version of the extension that parses wikitext written for the
ToggleDisplay extension in terms of MediaWiki's core functionality of
collapsible elements or something else that's equivalent.
Thank you very much!
Vipul
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Bonjour à tous,
J'ai installé Mediawiki en 1.18.2 sous postgresql 9.1
J'ai écris quelque babioles sans utiliser de formatage spéciale ou
utilisation de couleur.
J'ai upgradé Mediawiki aujourd'hui en 1.19.0 l'upgrade c'est passé en
douceur sans aucun message d'erreur.
J'ai voulu écrire un texte en couleur (rouge) j'ai utilisé les pages
suivantes :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Surlign%C3%A9http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Color%C3%A9http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Noirhttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mod%C3%A8le_de_couleur_de_texte
j'ai donc essayé les syntaxes suivantes :
{{Surligné|yellow|bordure=teal|marge=5px|texte=blue|texte surligné}} <br>
{{rouge|test}} <br>
{{bleu|test}} <br>
{{blue|test}} <br>
{{Violet|{{Lorem ipsum|3}}}} <br>
{{bleu|Choisir entre le texte bleu et le {{noir|texte noir}}
dans une même phrase.}} <br>
{{Coloré|#8846F0|Un texte violacé.}}
j'obtiens :
Modèle:Surligné
Modèle:Rouge
Modèle:Bleu
Modèle:Blue
Modèle:Violet
Modèle:Bleu
Modèle:Coloré
Vous pouvez tester cela sur http://wiki.leworm.fr/index.php/Test
Merci de votre aide
philippe
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