Thread:Talk:Third-party MediaWiki users discussion/Improving extension updating/reply (3)

An upgrade 'panel' is pretty standard for other CMS. Dokuwiki has an upgrade plugin (and a plugin manager plugin). It makes life much easier for the OPS, even of a dedicated use website like Wikipedia.

The nutshell extension zoo guideline for MW is: download a repo, test each one separately with your current MW installation and keep only those which work currently. Never upgrade anything until you have set up the future MW version and tested every currently used extension and *proven* they work in the future version.

The key there is "never upgrade anything".

The most important thing I need to know about extensions is does it work with MediaWiki version 1.X, for each version of the extension. Any meta data after that is nice, but not required.