Actually, Wikia recently upgraded to "a" 1.12alpha version (Though, it's
a real old alpha... r26409 before 99% of the new features like the
parser, viewing diffs of deleted revisions, rss feed on linked changes,
protection of nonexistant pages)
See:
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:MediaWiki_1.12_upgrade_new_features
However, of course as it's the largest Wikia wiki Central has not got
the upgrade yet. Nearly every other wikia has it now though.
But Wikia uses a hack to includes/SpecialListusers.php (I've seen the
code, you can't do what they need to do without hacking core) in
addition to using a number of extensions that Wikimedia wiki don't use
and which the latest alpha versions commonly break support for until
they catch up with the next release.
However, that listusers issue is something I actually addressed on
bugzilla, perhaps someone should look over my patch on bug12542
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12542> if you want to
make it any easier for Wikia to keep up with trunk.
Remember that Wikia has almost 6000 wiki and it's hard to make sure that
updating anything on them all (including extensions which are on older
versions) doesn't break any of the techniques used on any of the wiki.
It's another matter, but Wikia is also having a little issues with
setting up an area for it's "Volunteer Developers", we'd help package up
code and make things releasable, but there's no real place to do that.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (
http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on
Wikia.com (
http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and
Wiki-Tools.com (
http://wiki-tools.com)
MinuteElectron wrote:
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Simetrical wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Ben
<chuwiey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Also as a side note, the installation requires
modification to
AjaxFunctions, which deters a bit from installing due to having to
remember that you made that change..
Don't a few Wikia people have commit access precisely so they can add
hooks to avoid file edits? The change looks like it could be done
pretty easily by adding a new hook.
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Wikia don't currently use MediaWiki trunk, surprisingly they use
1.10alpha (probably due to the amount of customizations they have making
it difficult to upgrade), so any changes to the MediaWiki core wouldn't
help them. I suppose that if Wikia stayed at the bleeding edge like
Wikimedia they would have an easier time upgrading, although they don't
have direct control over MediaWiki in the way Wikimedia have so this
would be harder to accomplish.
MinuteElectron.
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