Forum:MediaWiki 1.9

Good news - Wikia will be upgrading to the latest stable version of MediaWiki this week.

The wikis will be offline during some of this. It will take about between 50 minutes and two hours. This will happen at some point between 8:00 and 13:00 UTC on Tuesday 20th, Wednesday 21st, or Thursday 22nd for different wikis.

We'll send more detailed information closer to when it happens. The mailing lists ought to keep working during this time, and you're always welcome to join us in the Wikia channel on IRC for the latest updates.

Details on the new features this will bring will be placed at MediaWiki 1.9.

Angela talk 19:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yay! Great news! :D --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 21:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Will the upgrades include the magazines? And if so, will they be prioritized for upgrading (Tuesday) considering they are probably on the oldest versions (1.5.4)? -Afker 21:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I would suggest that during the upgrade Wikia "change it's apache configuration to use a path to PATH_INFO alias instead of path to query rewrite rules." as stated in (bug 395) because upgrading to MediaWiki 1.9 will make + a legal character which is one of the 2 steps for fixing that bug. ~Dantman(talk) 21:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

The upgrade is now complete. If you find any problems, please let us know at MediaWiki 1.9. Angela talk 15:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)