Mediawiki Upgrades

[chris]

This is a ticket to keep track of upgrades to ​Mediawiki on.

[chris]

The upgrade instructions are here: wiki:NewLiveServer#mediawiki

​MediaWiki security release 1.16.2 upgrade, this was first tested on the wiki:DevelopmentServer and then the wiki:NewLiveServer :

# mediawiki-upgrade 1.16.2
  Mediawiki upgraded to 1.16.2
  Updating SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
  At revision 81381.
  Updating SpamBlacklist
  At revision 81381.
  Updating FCKeditor
  U    FCKeditorEditPage.body.php
  U    FCKeditor.php
  U    FCKeditor.body.php
  U    FCKeditor.i18n.php
  U   .
  Updated to revision 81381.
  Mediawiki extensions, FCKeditor upgraded to versions from http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_16/extensions/

[ed]

anything needing to be done on this?

[chris]

There is a new version due out soon:

​http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.17

And I'm a bit behind version wise, we are running 1.16.2:

​http://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Special:Version

And the latest stable is 1.16.5 so I do need to do a few mins work on this:

​http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

[chris]

MediaWiki 1.17.0 released ​http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-June/000101.html

The upgrade script worked OK:

mediawiki-upgrade 1.17.0

One change was needed to apache config, CSS is now served via load.php, load was added to this line:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(index|redirect|api|opensearch_desc|profileinfo|redirect|thumb|trackback|load).php

And on the live server there was an error which was fixed with:

chown -R www-data:www-data cache

The default skin has also been switched to vector.

[ed]

any thoughts on a WYSIWYG editor?

[chris]

There is one installed (must have been done a while ago) and I have just checked it in both servers :-)

Click the 'Rich Editor' link at the top of the textarea, you can set editor preferences to load it on default or better disable it ;-)

[ed]

sweet. now i can make it pretty. and maybe add pictures of cats ;)

[ed]

anything to do here? move to phase 5? close maybe? haven't used the wiki much - definitely a low priority for now...

[chris]

This ticket is for keeping track of the time to upgrade between Mediawiki versions, I wouldn't close it unless it's better tracked with one ticket per version upgrade?

I notice that the wiki is being spammed:

​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=90

Cleaning it up and working out how to protect against this perhaps needs a ticket or this one could be used for that?

[jim]

My vote is to ensure its a) permitted access only to users which we pre-approve, or b) shut it down and move the pages to trac or the main site.

[ed]

Agreed with Jim, and as discussed in our skype. Permitted access to pre-approved users only, and any approved user can add another.

We'll give the wiki evangelists a bit more time to use it...

[chris]

I implemented this the other day and left a note about it on the front page:

​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Main_Page

See the ticket comment here: ticket:192#comment:2