At this point most of our wikis have been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.4, which has a few spiffy new features, some bug fixes, and some performance improvements in page rendering.
I'm slating the upgrades for *.wikipedia.org to start around 1 or 2 am UTC Thursday morning (Wednesday evening in the US). There will be some read-only time during the conversions, which may last up to a few hours depending on how cooperative the databases are.
Note that there's an issue with the special character insertion template on the edit page; on older versions it happened to be possible to insert raw HTML and JavaScript in that portion of the template but ongoing cleanup (for security and robustness reasons, outlined in my recent post to Wiktionary-l) mean that it doesn't work anymore.
It is a useful thing though, and it should be possible to make it work through alternate means, namely a simple MediaWiki extension module. I'll try to have one ready around the time of the conversion if somebody doesn't beat me to it.
Please don't forget to file bug reports at http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org for unresolved problems on the other new wikis. We might not get to everything immediately, but we'll never be able to fix problems we don't know about.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hi!
We have a problem with 1.4 on cs: Wikipedia. The linktrail seems not to work correctly since the upgrade. Although the MediaWiki:Linktrail still contains the same regexp /^((?:[a-z]|á|č|ď|é|ě|í|ň|ó|ř|š|ť|ú|ů|ý|ž)+)(.*)$/sD as before, all links are now terminated at the first non-ASCII character. See e.g. the last word of the initial paragraph of http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kone%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_automat .
Is there anything we could do to fix that?
Thanks, [[ cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec ]]
Hmm... sorry for the attached signature, which is not mine, it was copied from the e-mail I was replying to. My fault (and gmail's).
[[ cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec ]]
On Dec 23, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Petr Kadlec wrote:
We have a problem with 1.4 on cs: Wikipedia. The linktrail seems not to work correctly since the upgrade. Although the MediaWiki:Linktrail still contains the same regexp /^((?:[a-z]|á|č|ď|é|ě|í|ň|ó|ř|š|ť|ú|ů|ý|ž)+)(.*)$/sD as before, all links are now terminated at the first non-ASCII character. See e.g. the last word of the initial paragraph of http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kone%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_automat .
Using a MediaWiki message as a raw regular expression isn't safe; a broken expression could break the wiki in annoying ways. Additionally the message lookup required message cache initialization which doubled the runtime of cached page views. The hardcoded linktrail in the language files is now used for security and performance reasons.
I've updated ru, cs, and fr as requested.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Using a MediaWiki message as a raw regular expression isn't safe; a broken expression could break the wiki in annoying ways. Additionally the message lookup required message cache initialization which doubled the runtime of cached page views. The hardcoded linktrail in the language files is now used for security and performance reasons.
OK, thanks, it works fine now.
I've updated ru, cs, and fr as requested.
Well, our language file would need much more than this small update, but thanks anyway.
[[ cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec ]]
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