Trumble, Joyce wrote:
Hello, all.
I am planning a revamp and upgrade of an enterprise wiki jumping from
1.4.4 to 1.13. Management would like a "summary of significant changes"
that will benefit the users and administrators. It is a very subjective
question and combing through each of the release notes documents to
garner the requested information will be time consuming. That said, I
don't know of a more effective way to tackle the request. Does there
exist, for the major releases, a summary of user-facing improvements?
Searching the archives for "release notes" or "upgrades," while
interesting reading, did not quite hit the target for me.
Best regards--
Joyce Trumble
Last version is 1.13.1. No reason to update to 1.13 instead.
You should start by viewing the relese notes (changelog)
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_1/phase3/RELEASE-NOT…
From the 1.4 series there're lots of improvements, including some code
injecting and a big schema change at 1.5.
Users will notice changes in the skin. Special:Preferences is now
different, and account creation is no longer in the same screen as
logging in.
You can expect a better performance.
Users will now be able to use parserfunctions, which are quite useful
for templating.
There's now a undo link, handy for undoing vandalism.
Now there're things such as __HIDDENCAT__
Logs are shown on some places where they are likely to be useful.
Maybe the easiest would be to grab one of your users and ask them to
list differences between that wiki and wikipedia :P