[Mediawiki-l] Wikipedia's version of MediaWiki (was: save on first edit)

[Martin Jambon]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, jdd wrote:

> Martin Jambon wrote:
>
>> If you want to know the version of the software running the mediawiki, go 
>> to "Special pages" and then to "Version" or directly to 
>> [[Special:Version]].
>
> yes, this I know, but I use 4-5 different mediawikis on different platforms 
> (mostly not owned by me) and of different version. I don't remember which 
> have the problem. seems to me it's on wikipedia (pretty sure), so probably 
> 1.6... but I have had this many times for a long period.

That's weird, it doesn't even have email notifications (or they are 
well-hidden). I am wondering which version of MediaWiki is actually in use 
in Wikipedia, and how the transfer from one version to another is 
performed. Since the database structure changed between 1.4 and 1.5, how 
do people handle upgrades of MediaWiki at Wikipedia? Is there really an 
upgrade or just a carefully patched version which remains compatible with 
older versions of MediaWiki?

Thanks for any insights into this,


Martin

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