Transition Technology: Ticket #870: MediaWiki 1.23.10

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chris — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:52:31 GMT

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Following the notes at wiki:MediaWiki#Updates

sudo -i
cd /web/wiki.transitionnetwork.org
export MW="1.23.10"
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz -O mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz.sig -O mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz.sig
gpg --verify mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz.sig
  gpg: Signature made Mon Aug 10 22:05:57 2015 BST using RSA key ID 23107F8A
  gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
gpg --search-keys 23107F8A
  gpg: searching for "23107F8A" from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
  (1)     Chad Horohoe <chad@wikimedia.org>
          keybase.io/demon <demon@keybase.io>
          Chad Horohoe (Personal e-mail) <innocentkiller@gmail.com>
          Chad Horohoe (Alias for existing email) <chadh@wikimedia.org>
            2048 bit RSA key 41B2ABE817ADD3E52BDA946F72BC1C5D23107F8A, created: 2014-04-29, expires: 2026-04-29
  Keys 1-1 of 1 for "23107F8A".  Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > 1
  gpg: requesting key 23107F8A from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
  gpg: key 23107F8A: public key "Chad Horohoe <chad@wikimedia.org>" imported
  gpg: Total number processed: 1
  gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
gpg --verify mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz.sig
tar -zxvf mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz
rsync -av mediawiki-$MW/ www/
chown root:root -R www/
chown -R www-data:www-data www/cache/
chown -R www-data:www-data www/images/
cd www/maintenance/
php update.php
cd /web/wiki.transitionnetwork.org
rm mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz.sig
rm -rf mediawiki-$MW

And the server has updated, see https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Special:Version however the VisualEditor has stopped working I can't haven't been able to work out why yet...

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chris — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:17:17 GMT

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Getting a new copy of the VisualEditor extension as per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor#Download from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/VisualEditor

cd /web/wiki.transitionnetwork.org/www/extensions
wget https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/VisualEditor-REL1_23-9883566.tar.gz
  2015-08-24 14:12:39 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Asking about this issue in ircs://irc.freenode.org/mediawiki-visualeditor ...

chris — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:33:46 GMT

Got help in the IRC channel... and a ticket has been created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110031

wget https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-VisualEditor/archive/9883566.zip
unzip 9883566.zip
mv VisualEditor VisualEditor.old
mv mediawiki-extensions-VisualEditor-98835665dc8bb994c03cf173701d2ae91191d473 VisualEditor

However now I don't even get the loading animation when testing at https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/index.php?title=Sandbox&veaction=edit and there is no evidence of a connection in the Parsiod logs...

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chris — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:51:26 GMT

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Rather then spening a lot of time trying to get the LTS version of MediaWiki working with the VisualEditor I'm going to install the latest stable version, 1.25.2 and see if that solves the issue:

sudo -i
cd /web/wiki.transitionnetwork.org
export MW="1.25.2"
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz -O mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz.sig -O mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz.sig
gpg --verify mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz.sig
  gpg: Signature made Mon Aug 10 22:27:49 2015 BST using RSA key ID 23107F8A
  gpg: Good signature from "Chad Horohoe <chad@wikimedia.org>"
  gpg:                 aka "keybase.io/demon <demon@keybase.io>"
  gpg:                 aka "Chad Horohoe (Personal e-mail) <innocentkiller@gmail.com>"
  gpg:                 aka "Chad Horohoe (Alias for existing email) <chadh@wikimedia.org>"
  gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
  gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
  Primary key fingerprint: 41B2 ABE8 17AD D3E5 2BDA  946F 72BC 1C5D 2310 7F8A
tar -zxvf mediawiki-$MW.tar.gz
rsync -av mediawiki-$MW/ www/
chown root:root -R www/
chown -R www-data:www-data www/cache/
chown -R www-data:www-data www/images/
cd www/maintenance/
php update.php

The the following was added to LocalSettings.php:

# MediaWiki 1.24 and newer no longer automatically enables installed skins (see
# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery
# You can paste the following lines into LocalSettings.php to enable all currently installed skins:
wfLoadSkin( 'CologneBlue' );
wfLoadSkin( 'Modern' );
wfLoadSkin( 'MonoBook' );
wfLoadSkin( 'Vector' );

A new version of the VisualEditor was downloaded via Download MediaWiki extension:

cd extensions/
rm -rf VisualEditor
wget "https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/VisualEditor-REL1_25-c947b49.tar.gz"
tar -zxvf VisualEditor-REL1_25-c947b49.tar.gz

However the VisualEditor edit link didn't appear, reading the docs and discussion I realised there is a dependency:

cd extensions/
wget https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector-REL1_25-7661826.tar.gz
tar -zxvf UniversalLanguageSelector-REL1_25-7661826.tar.gz

And the following was added to LocalSettings.php:

# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector#Installation
require_once "$IP/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector/UniversalLanguageSelector.php";

However the VisualEditor is still not working, given the fact that the wiki site isn't used all that much I'm not sure if I should spend any more time on this?