[Foundation-l] Question about Mediawiki versions on Wikipedia

Thu Jul 6 19:23:00 UTC 2006

Brad Patrick wrote:

>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.
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Thanks Brad. I'll move this topic over there.

Jeff

>On 7/6/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>It's a little frustrating to run down continual problems with the dumps.
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>>Any enlightenment would be appreciated.
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>>Jeff
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