wiki:MediaWiki
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Table of Contents

  1. Parsoid
  2. Updates
  3. Tickets

MediaWiki - wiki.transitionnetwork.org

Documentation for the wiki.transitionnetwork.org server which is running MediaWiki on PenguinServer.

The site is now running the latest version of Mediawiki, it was upgraded to 1.22.5 on ticket:706 to enable the new VisualEditor to be used, prior to this the site was running the long term support version of Mediawiki, see ticket:455 and also see the install notes on ticket:357#comment:10 and ticket:470#comment:10 login is via HTTPS.

Parsoid

The new MediaWiki visual editor: Parsoid: How Wikipedia catches up with the web:

Parsoid is implemented as a node.js-based web service. There are two distinct, and somewhat independent pieces to Parsoid: the parser and runtime that converts Wikitext to HTML, and the serializer that converts HTML to Wikitext.

As part of the upgrade to 1.22.5 a Parsoid server was installed and then on ticket:736#comment:6 we changed to using a deb repo for updating parsoid and then on ticket:799#comment:11 and ticket:841#comment:3 we switched to using a remote Parsoid server as the latest version of Parsoid didn't work on Debian Wheezy.

Updates

Update process:

sudo -i
cd /web/wiki.transitionnetwork.org
export MW="1.23.9"
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-$MW.tar.gz.sig 
tar -zxvf mediawiki-$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

Note that we are using a git version of VisualEditor, see ticket:736#comment:14, this might not be needed after the next update.

Then check https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Special:Version and make sure everything is working OK and do a test edit on the https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Sandbox page to test the VisualEditor.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle for information about versions and their end-of-life dates.

Tickets

Open Mediawiki tickets: #870, #879, #892

Ticket Summary Owner Reporter
#892 MediWiki Security Release: 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12 chris chris
#879 MediaWiki 1.23.11 chris chris
#870 MediaWiki 1.23.10 chris chris

Closed Mediawiki tickets: #129, #148, #192, #230, #381, #394, #402, #419, #432, #455, #505, #506, #532, #536, #551, #595, #620, #669, #686, #694, #700, #706, #723, #733, #736, #753, #766, #781, #793, #799, #813, #816, #841

Ticket Summary Owner Reporter
#841 Mediawiki 1.23.9 chris chris
#816 MediaWiki 1.23.8 chris chris
#813 MediaWiki 1.23.7 chris chris
#799 MediaWiki Visual Editor broken from Parsoid update chris chris
#793 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Release 1.23.5 chris chris
#781 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.22.10 and 1.23.3 chris chris
#766 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Update 1.23.2 chris chris
#753 wiki.transitionnetwork.org displaying error chris chris
#736 Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.23.0 chris chris
#733 Mediawiki 1.22.7 security update chris chris
#723 Mediawiki 1.22.6 Upgrade chris chris
#706 Upgrade Mediawiki to 1.22.5 and install the new VisualEditor chris chris
#700 Mediawiki 1.19.13 chris chris
#694 Mediawiki 1.19.12 upgrade chris chris
#686 MediaWiki 1.19.11 Update chris chris
#669 Mediawiki upgrade to 1.19.10 chris chris
#620 Upgrade MediaWiki to 1.19.9 chris chris
#595 Upgrade Mediawiki to 1.19.8 from 1.19.7 chris chris
#551 Mediawiki 1.19.7 upgrade chris chris
#536 Upgrade Mediawiki to 1.19.6 chris chris
#532 Upgrade to Mediawiki 1.19.5 chris chris
#506 Mediawiki 1.19.4 Upgrade chris chris
#505 Critical Mediawiki security upgrade chris chris
#455 Upgrade to Mediawiki 1.20 chris chris
#432 Ed has buggered the PSE wiki homepage chris ed
#419 Upgrade Mediawiki to 1.19.2 chris chris
#402 upgrade mediawiki to 1.18.2 chris chris
#394 Upgrade Mediawiki to 1.18.1 chris chris
#381 PSE Documentation ed chris
#230 Mediawiki Upgrades chris chris
#192 Mediawiki SpamBlacklist configuration needs checking chris chris
#148 Wiki https certificate chris chris
#129 Add WYSIWYG to mediawiki chris ed