Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

2012-05-11 Thread Steven Zhang
Ive done unix administration before. I'd not call myself experienced tho. Intermediate perhaps, but not experienced. Steve Zhang Sent from my iPhone On 12/05/2012, at 9:26 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Steven Zhang wrote: >> On 11/05/2012, at 6:49 PM, John Van

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

2012-05-11 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Steven Zhang wrote: > On 11/05/2012, at 6:49 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: >> I'd prefer stability over functionality, as our user base is small and >> they arn't using complex features.  Also upgrading takes time that the >> two sysadmins (Andrew Garrett and myself)

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

2012-05-11 Thread Steven Zhang
Steve Zhang Sent from my iPhone On 11/05/2012, at 6:49 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:12 AM, K. Peachey wrote: >> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Daniel Zahn wrote: >>> while WMF wikis are currently on 1.20wmf2. >> >> 1.20 Isn't a stable release, Don't recommend i

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

2012-05-11 Thread Daniel Zahn
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:42 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > 1.20 Isn't a stable release, Don't recommend it to anyone please. > 1.19.0 is the current stable. True! Sorry, i was merely comparing the version on wikipedias with the chapter wikis when saying that, did not mean everybody should always go to

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

2012-05-11 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:12 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Daniel Zahn wrote: >> while WMF wikis are currently on 1.20wmf2. > > 1.20 Isn't a stable release, Don't recommend it to anyone please. > 1.19.0 is the current stable. Should we upgrade to 1.18.3 or 1.19.0? Ho

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

2012-05-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Daniel Zahn wrote: > while WMF wikis are currently on 1.20wmf2. 1.20 Isn't a stable release, Don't recommend it to anyone please. 1.19.0 is the current stable. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimed

[Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel Zahn
Greetings Wikimedia Australia, my name is Daniel, i am an ops engineer contractor at WMF and a guy who does some statistics about Mediawiki installations. (http://wikistats.wmflabs.org/) While compiling statistics we noticed that there are quite a few chapters wiki running on old mediawiki versio