Hi!
Please help us in testing the latest version of MediaWiki, the software which runs Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiquote and all other Wikimedia projects.
The development version can be tested at: http://test.wikipedia.org/
You can report bugs directly on the test-wiki.
Important user-visible changes are: - new MonoBook skin, which will probably become the new default skin (can also be tested on http://wiki.aulinx.de) - edit conflict merging - category system: add [[Category:Xyz]] to an article to categorize it - links and formatting in image captions - MediaWiki namespace separated into MediaWiki: (for software messages) and Template: (for custom blocks), new simplified syntax, arbitrary transclusion - links in edit summaries, auto-summaries shown in gray color instead of =like this= - support for hieroglyphs (WikiHiero) - reorg'd user prefs (not completed yet) - (almost) valid xhtml - lots of other stuff
Please pass this announcement on to people on your wiki.
Regards,
Erik
On 9 Apr 2004 Erik Moeller (erik_moeller@gmx.de) wrote:
Please help us in testing the latest version of MediaWiki, ...
I'm planning to convert my Infinite Ink site to a MediaWiki wiki but I currently have no experience setting up or administering MediaWiki (or MySql). I'd like to use MediaWiki 1.3 or later and I'm happy to help beta test it but I have some questions:
* How stable is the 1.3 code right now? Does it make sense for someone like me to set it up and experiment with it?
* If I set up 1.2.3 instead, will it be easy to migrate to 1.3?
* When do you think 1.3 will be released? I know that estimating release dates is not a very accurate business but any clues in this area will help me decide what to do.
I'm looking forward to using MediaWiki! Thank you, Nancy
On Apr 12, 2004, at 01:33, Nancy McGough wrote:
On 9 Apr 2004 Erik Moeller (erik_moeller@gmx.de) wrote:
Please help us in testing the latest version of MediaWiki, ...
I'm planning to convert my Infinite Ink site to a MediaWiki wiki but I currently have no experience setting up or administering MediaWiki (or MySql). I'd like to use MediaWiki 1.3 or later and I'm happy to help beta test it but I have some questions:
- How stable is the 1.3 code right now? Does it make sense for someone
like me to set it up and experiment with it?
A number of things are not yet working correctly; some features have been temporarily broken while being rewritten, some other new features just aren't quite finished yet (templates, new layout, page import). The wiki->HTML parser is being tweaked for correct XHTML output and fundamental parts of it get half-broken and half-fixed a couple of times a day, so I would certainly not recommend setting up a site on 1.3 just now.
- If I set up 1.2.3 instead, will it be easy to migrate to 1.3?
Yes, it should be pretty easy. We've so far made only minor changes to the database, which an update script should take care of.
- When do you think 1.3 will be released? I know that estimating
release dates is not a very accurate business but any clues in this area will help me decide what to do.
A beta release or release candidate before the end of the month is quite likely, but we don't have firm plans. An official 1.3.0 release will come when it seems to be working and the installation and upgrade process has been tested to general satisfaction.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Thanks for the quick reply! OK, I'm going to set up 1.2.3 and then migrate to 1.3 whenever it's released. If anyone has any words of wisdom/advice to a newbie especially w.r.t. mathematical symbols, please let me know. Hope to see you on the ii wiki!
Nancy
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