Brian <Brian.Mingus <at> colorado.edu> writes:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Tisza Gergő <gtisza <at> gmail.com> wrote:
Brian <Brian.Mingus <at> colorado.edu> writes:
And of course Special:Version code has changed since the last time I ran that code, meaning there is really no reliable way to know what version of MediaWiki Wikipedia is running anyway.
You can get http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=... and look for /\brev="(\d)"/. A separate SVN branch for the version used on live Wikimedia wikis would be a great improvement, though.
Yes - this would be fantastic. It just needs to be a cheap copy which is essentially zero overhead on WMFs part. A 'live' tag for example.
I tried to suggest that a few weeks ago, but couldn't create much interest: http://www.nabble.com/Live-SVN-branch-td23636464.html
If done properly, it would be probably more difficult than a simple copy of a certain version, but it would also be much more useful. For example, Tim updated SpecialUserrights.php to r52116 just a few minutes ago to fix a bug which stopped it from working, but you wouldn't know that from looking at Special:Version.