[Foundation-l] Question about Mediawiki versions on Wikipedia

Thu Jul 6 17:39:09 UTC 2006

Jeff, Foundation-L isn't the best place to discuss this.  I think you are
going to get more help if you work on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Forum or mediawiki-l.

On 7/6/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
>
>
> I noticed that Mediawiki 1.6.7. has some issues with current content
> with Infoboxes and Cite.php references when citing books and websites.
> I also read that 1.7 is what's running on Wikipedia.  Is there a good
> reason why XML dumps are kept broken and Wikipedia is always using
> unreleased versions as opposed to the other way around.  Most folks run
> production websites on a stable release and leave the experimental
> releases for developers -- here this is reversed.
>
> It's a little frustrating to run down continual problems with the dumps.
>
> Any enlightenment would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff
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