Forum:MediaWiki 1.15.1 upgrade

Hey all! We'll be upgrading Wikia to MediaWiki 1.15.1 on Wednesday. You can read about our release plans here. If you notice any problems once the upgrade is complete, please report them below. Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 23:31, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

What the hell is going on?
On AOL, it doesn't work, and on Safari, it says I have to download index or somethin' and when I've downloaded it, IT STILL DOESN'T WORK! Help! --Grinder The Hedgehog-HogdoukenStudios 16:44, 26 August 2009 (UTC) Sonic Fanon Wiki


 * What are you talking about? We're still discusing MediaWiki, right? --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 17:00, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Right, I'll say it slowly. I'm only 11, and I'm puzzled. I read how to upgrade the uploader, but I DON'T GET IT! Help please! --Grinder The Hedgehog-HogdoukenStudios 17:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Can you please tell us what happens when you go to Special:Upload? Are you using Safari 4.0.3? --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 17:15, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I dunno. It worked this morning. It used to work on AOL, but now it hasn't for sometime. The other members of the wiki are going through the same problems. --Grinder The Hedgehog-HogdoukenStudios 17:18, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, I'm still not sure what you mean - can you give us a link, either to other users reporting it, or the issue? The software upgrade only occurred today, so if this issue has been around for longer, it is unrelated. 18:04, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

http://sonicfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:HELP!!!!_Page

That's what I'm experiancing.

Grinder The Hedgehog-HogdoukenStudios 19:06, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * If this is something that has been occurring before today then it's quite possibly just your connection. ~Joey~   ^Talk^  19:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

wowwiki domain problems
As reported on IRC: http://no.wowwiki.com, http://es.wowwiki.com , etc redirects to www.wikia.com. Just noticed that this problem happens on every MediaWiki upgrade. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 17:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * This should now be fixed. 18:00, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Canonical Href
It's not a problem, but Special:Version says Canonical Href is installed, but release notes of MW1.15 says that feature is now part of the MediaWiki core (link rel=canonical in redirect pages). Maybe it's now redundant? BTW I don't see any repeated link headers so there's no visible problem. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 17:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Special:Recentchanges limit
Now Special:Recentchanges is limited to 500 changes. Before the upgrade, you could change the limit changing manually the url to, for example, 1000. This was useful when one returns from weekend and there are lots of recentchanges to patrol, specially on heavy edited wikis. Now I can't handle a single day without filtering per namespace. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 17:16, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe that I have identified the source of the problem. I have reported it, and unless there is a compelling performance reason for the change, it should be fixed soon. --KyleH (talk) 18:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Toolbar is gone!
The edit toolbar (With the buttons for Bold, italics, ect.) Does not appear on the Club Penguin Wiki. This started happening right after the upgrade. This does not happen on central, though. -- seahorseruler | Talk  (EditCount) Yoshi! 18:36, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Sometimes that happens to me too, but sometimes it appears!

Grinder The Hedgehog-HogdoukenStudios 19:06, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks fine now. Might have been some more javascript related problems. have to remember guys, we did also release a bunch of new code of our own too today, not just the mediawiki upgrade, not every problem is from the 1.15 change. --Uberfuzzy 19:26, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

"File links" on Memory Alpha (en) not registering
All file description pages state "There are no pages that link to this file", and Special:Whatlinkshere is blank. Special:Unusedfiles looks like it contains every file on the wiki... -- Michael Warren | Talk (@MA) 19:09, 26 August 2009 (UTC) Additional: Files uploaded, or moved, from August 25th onward are displaying correctly. - Michael Warren | Talk (@MA) 19:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Give it a day to rebuild that data. part of the upgrade process to to flush all cached temp data out. --Uberfuzzy 19:22, 26 August 2009 (UTC)