[Foundation-l] MediaWiki 1.7.1 and Wikipedia

Mon Jul 10 20:34:51 UTC 2006

Oooh! HTML dumps!

I'll certainly be looking forward to that!

On 7/10/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > This needs to be reviewed. Running 1.8 on your site is not an issue, but
> > creating XML dumps
> > which are incompatible with released versions is. This is what needs to
> > be addressed.
>
> The XML dump format has not changed since 1.5, and should remain backwards
> compatible for the forseeable future.
>
> For wiki-agnostic republishing purposes, we're considering making more
> easily
> used HTML dumps available.
>
> If you want the wikitext source, though, you do need to keep in mind that
> extensions, bug fixes, etc will continue to evolve along with Wikimedia's
> needs,
> so the exact rendering of given input text may necessarily change a bit
> over time.
>
> If you have a specific concern, please let us know.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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