https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.1.patch.gz appears to have a patch for file README.mediawiki, which doesn't exist in the 1.28 or the 1.28.1 tarballs. Can this file be removed from the above patch file? (Or the file be put in the distribution?)
It is far more comforting having a patch that works than one that requires some manual intervention.