[Mediawiki-l] Help with help pages

[Ryan Lane]

> The installation page for ParserFunctions states that you need MediaWiki
> version 1.7.0 or above:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions
>
> According to the home page for MediaWiki the current version is 1.15.1:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
>
> Is there a mistake at the ParserFunctions page? Should I go ahead and
> install? Will it make any difference if I try this given the problem
> with the angle brackets?
>

1.15 is newer than 1.7. When reading version numbers, treat the period
as a divider, not as a decimal point.

As long as you are using a version of MediaWiki newer than 1.7 (which
is a few years old), you should be ok.

V/r,

Ryan Lane