<quote name="David Gerard" date="2013-10-01" time="22:51:46 +0100">
Well, I wasn't actually. A mediawiki.org PPA is an idea that sounds utterly wonderful and bypasses the Debian packaging effort completely, which does seem quite worth it.
OFFTOPIC:
now if only Launchpad would support building packages against Debian... :(
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/188564
Given that LP is in 'maintenance mode' and that's a low priority bug...