The nice thing about extensions, in comparison to the way modifications work
for software like phpBB, is that they're pretty easy to remove: You just
take a line out of LocalSettings.php, and it's gone. Of course, if it's
something that affects pages in a lasting manner, then it could be
messy...which extension are you looking at?
If you're worried about compatibility, then I would recommend you look at
the version the extension is marked as being compatible with. If it's
several versions back, then look and see if the author is active on the
site, and if not, see if you can email him or her. If you can't get in
contact with the author, then see if there are any other versions of the
extension available that are being actively maintained. If not, then you
could think about asking an experienced extension writer if he or she would
be willing to help you in the event that an upgrade breaks something. (It
probably pays to get someone in advance as a contingency, and it's doubly
important to make backups so that you can revert an upgrade if it messes
things up.)
On 2/6/07, Fernando Correia <fernandoacorreia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2007/2/6, Daniel Israel <dmi1(a)hushmail.com>om>:
I'm setting up a wiki, and there are several
extensions from either
meta or
mediawiki.org that would be quite useful. My concern is
that if I install an extension and it breaks in some future
mediawiki upgrade, I'm going to be stuck either re-writing 100s of
wiki pages, or debugging the extension.
In general, is there any policy for the mediawiki developers as far
as testing that extensions continue to work? If not, can I have
any reasonable confidence level? Experience, anyone?
Some extensions are no longer maintained.
I suppose you can either make do without extensions or use them and
delay a future MediaWiki upgrade until you or someone can fix an
extension that did break.
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