Dear all
I fully agree with tharpenator@gmail.com Keeping Mediawiki and its extensions (such as Semanticmediawiki and many others) up to date isn't an easy job and this is proven by the number of outdated versions still in use. The task may be made easier by Composer and other developments, but these are not available to all of us.
Personally I'm trying to stay on track but I'm often struggling with unexpected problems.
Kind regards
Francis
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:28 PM, tharpenator@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Alex and All others,
Doesn't this very issue go to the heart of the Mediawiki survey of Stakeholders found? Accordingly to the slideshow on that survey 71% of all independent users of Mediawiki use an old outdated version of the software. I think we can safely assume almost all of those users have not updated their sites with security patches. The problem is the technical knowledge to update Mediawiki is above the average user of the software and/or they lack command line access. By not having an easy GUI to both update the software and the extensions to the software it effectively leads to a lot of sites running with the ghost of Christmas past.
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On Dec 4, 2015, at 12:29 PM, Alex Monk krenair@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2015 at 19:52, Jan Steinman Jan@ecoreality.org wrote:
Having been stung by various upgrades over the years, I tend to not
touch
stuff that isn't broken. I'm running several MediaWiki sites between
1.13
and 1.16. I'd sorta like to upgrade, but I don't know what that buys me, and y'know, they're all working... :-)
Are you aware of what security issues (which are now public) your wikis
are
vulnerable to? I am very sceptical that stuff "isn't broken", although I (personally) am not going to research old issues, find your wiki, and
then
attack it, to make a point. Have you really backported/rewritten patches for all of them yourself? I've been involved in MediaWiki development
for a
few years now - and 1.16 was obsolete before I started. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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