The latest stable MediaWiki branch is usually 3-6 months behind the one used on the Wikimedia sites, which can be a problem when one wants to import text from Wikipedia, use recent extensions, create a Wikipedia-related testwiki etc. The trunk, on the other hand, is unreliable; the best solution is to use the exact same revision which runs on the live sites, but that is somewhat inconvenient to do manually. It would be nice to have a "live" branch or tag that contains the same version that is used on Wikipedia. (Or maybe it might be even better if the branch follows Wikipedia's version with a few days delay - sometimes serious errors are found only when an update is pushed to Wikipedia, but those are always fixed very quickly.)
Hi,
2009/5/20 Tisza Gergő gtisza@gmail.com:
The latest stable MediaWiki branch is usually 3-6 months behind the one used on the Wikimedia sites, which can be a problem when one wants to import text from Wikipedia, use recent extensions, create a Wikipedia-related testwiki etc. The trunk, on the other hand, is unreliable; the best solution is to use the exact same revision which runs on the live sites, but that is somewhat inconvenient to do manually. It would be nice to have a "live" branch or tag that contains the same version that is used on Wikipedia. (Or maybe it might be even better if the branch follows Wikipedia's version with a few days delay - sometimes serious errors are found only when an update is pushed to Wikipedia, but those are always fixed very quickly.)
You can find the revision number at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version and simply check out trunk at that revision.
Robert
2009/5/20 MinuteElectron minuteelectron@googlemail.com:
You can find the revision number at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version and simply check out trunk at that revision.
The problem is that that omits live hacks and individual files that have been updated. It might leave out some critical security updates, for instance, which are often applied to Wikimedia long before an actual scap.
It's reasonably reliable, though, if you don't mind possibly being vulnerable to XSS or SQL injection from time to time.
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