Talk:MediaWiki 1.20/wmf1/overview

Target audience / page structure
Who's the target audience for this page? The Wikimedia community, or just third party users?

If it's just for third party users of a hypothetical future tarball, I think it's in good shape right now and can be continually updated to reflect changes.

But I've seen it referenced in the general Wikimedia blog as a point of reference for coming changes. That suggests that it's intended as a Wikimedia audience document as well. From the Wikimedia point of view, I think we need to clearly indicate 1) which changes have been deployed to-date vs. which ones are still pending, 2) changes to WMF-deployed extensions.--Eloquence (talk) 20:59, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * The new page structure makes sense to me :-). I'll add a few extension updates that I'm aware of.--Eloquence (talk) 17:18, 13 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok :) Sorry, I hadn't seen your comment when I reorganized the pages to avoid confusion and disambiguate between releases and deployments; there wasn't much time and I only shared the proposed structure by private e-mail with Sumana & Rob. guillom 08:25, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * No worries. I started collecting a few updates for extensions. Would be nice to automate extraction of commit summaries for WMF-deployed extensions as raw input for deployment release notes.--Eloquence (talk) 00:32, 16 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Here's a quick one to get recent extension commits, roughly after the time we stopped merging lots of fixes into 1.19wmf1, to be run in a 1.20wmf1 tree with submodules initialized.




 * This excludes localisation and translation updates. It could be compared against stuff already merged into 1.19wmf1, but right now due to the SVN/git hybrid state that's harder than it needs to be.--Eloquence (talk) 17:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Extension updates should now be complete, feel free to prettify, add author credits, etc.
 * I've not added updates for the following on the assumption that they're on their own deployment cycle: MobileFrontend, ArticleFeedbackv5, Translate, Narayam, WebFonts. (Team leads would be best positioned to qualify whether any changes to these are only in 1.20wmf1.) I've excluded i18n/l10n updates and internal code quality improvements (refactoring, docs, tests, etc.).--Eloquence (talk) 20:48, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

The latest version of MediaWiki in old ones

 * Now, all older versions 1.20wmfX always display :
 * The latest version (labeled "1.20wmf1") of MediaWiki,
 * The latest version (labeled "1.20wmf2") of MediaWiki ...
 * but they are not. This could be debug by a transclusion from MediaWiki_1.20 (or elsewhere).
 * For each old version, could you add a link to allow anybody to easily download it ? Thanks. --Rical (talk) 14:35, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

What gives en.wikipedia.org tooltip reference display?
I really like en.w.o's new way of displaying references in "tooltips" when the mouse hovers over a reference number.

Is this a feature of MediaWiki 1.20/wmf6, or wmf5 or currently only in the git repository (for wmf7 thus?) or is it an extension which someone can point me to?

Thanks. Ciaran (talk) 12:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You can activate it in you preference/gadget : " Navigation popups, article previews and editing functions popup when hovering over links". --Rical (talk) 14:53, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The gadget was [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AGadgets-definition&diff=502710987&oldid=500580245 enabled by default] recently. SPQRobin (talk) 15:10, 21 July 2012 (UTC)