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.
- 1.23.10 - ticket:870
- 1.23.9 - ticket:841
- 1.23.8 - ticket:816
- 1.23.7 - ticket:813
- 1.23.5 - ticket:793
- 1.23.3 - ticket:781
- 1.23.2 - ticket:766
- 1.23.0 and 1.23.1 - ticket:736
- 1.22.6 - ticket:733
- 1.22.5 - ticket:706
- 1.19.13 - ticket:700
- 1.19.12 - ticket:694
- 1.19.11 - ticket:686
- 1.19.10 - ticket:669
- 1.19.9 - ticket:620
- 1.19.8 - ticket:595
- 1.19.7 - ticket:551
- 1.19.6 - ticket:536
- 1.19.5 - ticket:532#comment:2
- 1.19.4 - ticket:506#comment:1
- 1.19.3 - ticket:470#comment:11
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
