Transition Technology: Ticket #455: Upgrade to Mediawiki 1.20

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chris — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:32:09 GMT

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ed — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:05:00 GMT

will this resolve the problem with the WYSYWYG editor which keeps on stripping out the links? (I know there's another ticket on this but it's 07:00 and I have to run for a train and all the links just got lost after saving again)... https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Sharing_Engine

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chris — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:17:20 GMT

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Sorry about that, I thought I had fixed the WYSYWYG by upgrading to the latest version and I closed ticket:432.

Looking at the diff of your edit I can't see what you were trying to change? Is it OK to simply roll this page back?

Some more time needs to be spent on the WYSIWYG editor, I've reopened ticket:432.

ed — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:53:22 GMT

confirmed - roll it back for now and i'll re-add the stuff. the problem seems to be all the links being re-presented in code rather than as links.

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chris — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:16:16 GMT

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I have rolled it back and will follow up on ticket:432

https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Sharing_Engine

One other option for the mediawiki upgrade is to stick with 1.19 and perhaps switch to the debian wheezy packaged version if it's in backports and doesn't pull in too many packages from unstable -- it is going to stay at 1.19 for a long time and just have security updates -- we don't need all the latest bells and whistles, we need something solid and stable:

=== Long Term Support ===
We're working closely with Linux distributors to make sure that the
MediaWiki bundled in Linux is something that we feel more comfortable
supporting.  In this vein, MediaWiki 1.19 is being targeted for "long
term support".  Since Debian (the Linux distribution with the longest
release cycle) has a two year cycle between each freeze and we've
gotten MediaWiki 1.19 into Wheezy, we'll support MW 1.19 for the next
two years.  (Thank you especially to MediaWiki developer Platonides
for his help in working with the Debian developers.)
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000120.html

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chris — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:53:27 GMT

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Mediawiki 1.19 isn't in debian backports but it's available from testing, http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/mediawiki so my suggestion is that we:

Try to use the debian packaged version of mediawiki 1.19 on the new wiki:PuffinServer when it's is built as this would reduce ongoing maintenance and upgrades and we don't need cutting edge features.

If we can't do 1. then still consider sticking with 1.19 as long as it's supported with the aim of switching the the debian version when we can.

Does that sound like a plan?

ed — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:24:28 GMT

Proposal sounds fine by me; no need for cutting edge, just basic links, headings, text editing required.

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chris — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:41:39 GMT

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Using the wheezy version on squeeze was going to have the potential to create a bit of a mess package wise so the site is running the long term support version 1.19.3 from http://mediawiki.org/ see wiki:PenguinServer#wiki.transitionnetwork.org