![]() Each new version of MediaWiki comes with some incremental changes that, in and of themselves, are pretty minor. ![]() Like any other software update, upgrading MediaWiki on Fandom ensures that we are using stable and modern tools for wiki editing. This is a change to the underlying software that we use, not how the site looks. ![]() Specifically, this is not a site redesign. It's also important to note what a MediaWiki upgrade is not. We expect the upgrade to 1.39 to be similar to the 1.37 upgrade earlier this year. The amount of effort required by admins and editors to make sure their wiki worked well with 1.37 was pretty minimal, especially compared to UCP-which was a jump of fourteen versions all at once for historically Fandom wikis! That’s a massive undertaking (for historically Gamepedia wikis it was much easier, as they were far more up to date on MediaWiki). This is our version of that.Īn upgrade of only two versions (1.37 to 1.39) is pretty straightforward. Every once in a while, your phone asks you to download and install software updates that bring (hopefully) improvements to your phone, security updates, and more. Upgrading to a new version of MediaWiki is like how you have to upgrade the operating system on your phone. It’s also the same software used by Wikipedia, and its maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation (the parent organization of Wikipedia). MediaWiki is the software that powers wiki editing on Fandom. Some of you may be newer and not totally familiar with what a MediaWiki upgrade is, so let’s walk through some of what it means. This will be our second upgrade (following the jump from 1.33 to 1.37 earlier this year) since the launch of the Unified Community Platform (UCP) in 2020. This continues our commitment to keep MediaWiki, the software that powers Fandom, up to date on a regular basis. In early 2023, Fandom will be upgrading from MediaWiki 1.37 to MediaWiki 1.39. Here at Fandom, there’s still a lot we’re working on for wiki editors this year-finishing mobile theming work, adding additional Discussions moderation tools, and improving the mobile editing experience being the primary areas of focus-but we’ve already heard some questions about what we’re going to be working on in 2023 so we wanted to let you know about one particularly important thing that will happen throughout the start of the year. I don’t know about you, but it feels like this year has just flown by. It’s hard to believe it’s already November. I'm trying to avoid doing incremental updates because upon investigating, it's a ton of them, and not all interim versions seem to be available.MediaWiki is the wiki editing software that powers Fandom. It's not huge, but it's obviously not small, and if there's any way to automate bringing this up to the most current version, I'm curious what my options are? Second, what's the best approach to updating this system? It's got over 1000 pages and 1000 images. I've got a few questions.įirst, what's the earliest version of MediaWiki that is PHP7 compatible? Obviously there have been a TON of revisions to MediaWiki in this time. (I know) But it won't run under PHP 7.4 and the company is upgrading their PHP systems. This version has basically served its purpose well and whoever was in charge never messed with upgrading it. ![]() It's running on PHP5, but they're looking to upgrade to PHP7. I've got a client that's running a pretty ancient version of Mediawiki (1.17.0) on an internal corporate network.
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