I'm about to commit a major change to the 'old' table in HEAD. There should ideally be no problems, but it's quite possible it will end up corrupting your database, deleting articles or their histories, or doing other bad things. There will almost certainly be minor bugs.
If you have anything important in a 1.4 version database, you MUST backup your database before updating or you WILL lose it!
You have been warned.
Kate.
I'm starting to hack up my copy of MediaWiki, and I'm documenting my adventures. I hope this will be useful to other programmers who are trying to learn come to grips with web programming.
http://wise-nano.org/w/Programming_notes
I'd appreciate review and/or help writing the sections on the various programming languages and systems. It's under GFDL, so could become MediaWiki material when it grows up. For now, I've linked to it from a couple of appropriate MediaWiki help pages.
Chris
On Sep 26, 2004, at 7:42 AM, Kate Turner wrote:
I'm about to commit a major change to the 'old' table in HEAD. There should ideally be no problems, but it's quite possible it will end up corrupting your database, deleting articles or their histories, or doing other bad things. There will almost certainly be minor bugs.
If you have anything important in a 1.4 version database, you MUST backup your database before updating or you WILL lose it!
This change has been backed out and will probably not make it into 1.4 release.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hey Brion,
Can you sum up some new things that we can expect in version 1.4?
Any idea when 1.4 beta's will hit the sourceforge? (If the skinning is better manageable and 1.4 won't take to long, I will wait with tampering on my system)
On Sep 26, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Marko Faas wrote:
Can you sum up some new things that we can expect in version 1.4?
Some of the big things:
Frontend: * User selection of alternate interface language * Some Simplified<->Traditional Chinese conversion ability * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed * Old manually maintained log pages replaced with searchable Special:Log
Backend: * Skins system more modular, easier to add new skins * Support for table prefixes to cooperate better with web apps sharing a database * PostgreSQL support * MonoBook skin on PHP 5 * Support for faster C++ diff module (WikiDiff extension) * Validation and normalization of unicode input
(If some of the ideas bouncing around work cleanly we may make some changes to the old table structure too, but upgradability is a key concern.)
Any idea when 1.4 beta's will hit the sourceforge?
If we can start tightening things up soon, I'd aim for mid-October.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Great news. I specially appreciate the PostgresQL and alternate interface language support!
What's your priority for:
* https-protected login * http authentication support
Greetings Tim
On 27.09.2004, at 02:56, Brion Vibber wrote:
Frontend:
- User selection of alternate interface language
- Some Simplified<->Traditional Chinese conversion ability
- 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed
- Old manually maintained log pages replaced with searchable
Special:Log
Backend:
- Skins system more modular, easier to add new skins
- Support for table prefixes to cooperate better with web apps sharing
a database
- PostgreSQL support
- MonoBook skin on PHP 5
- Support for faster C++ diff module (WikiDiff extension)
- Validation and normalization of unicode input
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On Sep 27, 2004, at 5:27 PM, Tim Pritlove wrote:
What's your priority for:
- https-protected login
- http authentication support
As far as I know no one's been working on these.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:27:21AM +0200, Tim Pritlove wrote:
Great news. I specially appreciate the PostgresQL and alternate interface language support!
What's your priority for:
- https-protected login
- http authentication support
Greetings Tim
https protected login belongs in the webserver, not in mediawiki. If you install your wiki on an https-enabled server, it works already.
--- Bob the Hamster
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 17:56:21 -0700, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Sep 26, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Marko Faas wrote:
Can you sum up some new things that we can expect in version 1.4?
Some of the big things:
Frontend: ...
- 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed
Can you add an option to only show pages that fit certain criteria? Like links to, liked from, fits name (eg "*wiki*"), is in namespace, etc. On wikipedia, I won't be able to help much with the medical articles, but when it comes to tech, I'm right there.
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