Am 11.04.2017 um 02:35 schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
> Unfortunately, I am unsure whether I can restrict the usage this tightly,
> and whether I'd rather let the users shoot themselves in the foot or
> restrict them from doing so... age old question!
That indeed is one of the ultimate questions, from U
TL;DR: The oldest deprecated JavaScript functions ("wikibits") are being
removed. Most gadgets and site scripts on Wikimedia wikis don't use these
anymore, but you may need to adjust user scripts.
This change will be part of MediaWiki 1.29.0-wmf.21, which goes to
Wikimedia wikis from 25 April. Th
[Crossposted to wikitech-l and mediawiki-l]
MediaWiki supports MySQL 5.0.3 (which was released back in 2005-03-23), and
this is somewhat of a blocker to MediaWiki development, and is also meaning
we're missing out on taking for granted that various features will be there for
use. Or having to d
Hello!
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.23.17. There was an
issue
in the 1.23.16 release that prevented it from running on PHP 5.3
installations.
Considering the report wasn't very widespread, I'm guessing most people
haven't
been affected yet. If you are, this release will fix
