[Foundation-l] Question about Mediawiki versions on Wikipedia

Thu Jul 6 17:54:10 UTC 2006

Jeff V. Merkey 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.

MediaWiki is our in-house software for running Wikipedia.

We also periodically make snapshot releases for the convenience of third-party
users.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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