Happy Holidays everyone.
I'm going through: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version -- and it means that the version of mediawiki currently deployed is r28966, however that commit was only yesterday by siebrand -- is that correct. Also is the extension list fully up to date, ie if I download and install everything on that page, and run mwdumper I should have an exact mirror of wikipedia?
Thanks, Yousef
2007/12/30, Yousef Ourabi yourabi@zero-analog.com:
I'm going through: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version -- and it means that the version of mediawiki currently deployed is r28966, however that commit was only yesterday by siebrand -- is that correct.
Yes, the Wikimedia sites generally follow the MediaWiki trunk pretty closely.
Also is the extension list fully up to date, ie if I download and install everything on that page, and run mwdumper I should have an exact mirror of wikipedia?
The extension list is generated automatically based on the extensions that are installed, so in theory, yes, but do keep in mind that different Wikipedias (and other projects) will have different extensions enabled.
Also remember that 100% of all extensions add themselves to the list of extensions. So it's possible for some custom extensions to exist which are not listed on [[Special:Version]] of some wiki.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
Schneelocke wrote:
2007/12/30, Yousef Ourabi yourabi@zero-analog.com:
I'm going through: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version -- and it means that the version of mediawiki currently deployed is r28966, however that commit was only yesterday by siebrand -- is that correct.
Yes, the Wikimedia sites generally follow the MediaWiki trunk pretty closely.
Also is the extension list fully up to date, ie if I download and install everything on that page, and run mwdumper I should have an exact mirror of wikipedia?
The extension list is generated automatically based on the extensions that are installed, so in theory, yes, but do keep in mind that different Wikipedias (and other projects) will have different extensions enabled.
DanTMan wrote:
Also remember that 100% of all extensions add themselves to the list of extensions. So it's possible for some custom extensions to exist which are not listed on [[Special:Version]] of some wiki.
Erm, Daniel meant that *NOT* all extensions add themselves there. Extensions not listed are usually old (before they could be) and given that extensions at wikimedia wikis are quite mantained i think you can mostly rely on it. Also, there're configuration options not listed on Special:Version, like namespace names, programs for uploads (file, convert...), tidy (enabled on wmf wikis)... If you want to sneak into the wikis config, you can see an old version of them at http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/
Special:Version is never accurate:
a) there may always be one or more livehacks, that get there because of.. live hacking (like profiling sections added here or there) b) some changes to some files can happen sooner than the whole 'update to trunk & sync' operation. small changes rarely go live as 'scaps', as not everyone wants to review all trunk stuff.
but thats life, and we've got Brion to be the code maintainer :) hi Brion!
BR,
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