[Foundation-l] Question about Mediawiki versions on Wikipedia

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Brion Vibber wrote:

>Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>I noticed that Mediawiki 1.6.7. has some issues with current content 
>>with Infoboxes and Cite.php references when citing books and websites.   
>>I also read that 1.7 is what's running on Wikipedia.  Is there a good 
>>reason why XML dumps are kept broken and Wikipedia is always using 
>>unreleased versions as opposed to the other way around.  Most folks run 
>>production websites on a stable release and leave the experimental 
>>releases for developers -- here this is reversed.
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>MediaWiki is our in-house software for running Wikipedia.
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>We also periodically make snapshot releases for the convenience of third-party
>users.
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Brad asked we take this discussion off line, so lets do so.  

Jeff

>-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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