Help talk:MediaWiki

Job queue?
Why is Help:Job queue redirected here? The text has next to nothing to do with the job queue. I think perhaps redirects occurred without regard for the fact that some wikis, like w:c:tardis, may have created a local tardis:help:job queue page, and now they're stuck with a page about MediaWiki instead. If pages are going to be made shareable across all wikis, then it's important to consider the impact of a page move on local wikis, not just this one. 04:32: Sat 11 Jan 2014


 * I agree wholeheartedly with that complaint. I have had to create many new local help pages and dig in the histories to find the original very detailed local help pages that have been whisked away to some frequently irrelevant "community" pages. Surely our programmers could have tweaked something so that local help pages with content did not get redirected - same as MediaWiki pages. --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:08, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That was intentional to redirect to Community Central, see User blog:MisterWoodhouse/A change to Shared Help on the Unified Community Platform. --Sophie ♦ 06:18, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Access!?
How do I even get to MediaWiki on my wiki?!?! I want to customise my user rights and I need this to do it!!!

MediaWiki 1.40
About a week ago I posted under the heading "MediaWiki updates". It received a reply but two links in the alerting email don't work.

I just wanted to reply by quoting from the recent Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list -- wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org:
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March ....
 * A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon

Its link is to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.26.

Digging deeper, I see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap saying "Wikimedia deployments of MediaWiki 1.40 alpha versions will happen on weekly intervals, within a longer stretch (approximately 6 months) between publishing releases of the installer for third-party users." I guess we are a third party. wmf.1 was on all Wikipedias by 15 September 2022, so maybe we are close?

Hopefully, --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:58, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, Fandom is a 3rd party, as we're not part of the WMF. As for 1.40, I don't think we're that close given we're updating to 1.39, and fandom generally likes to update to odd versions, and skip even versions, so we'll most likely get 1.41 sometime in the future, if we don't go directly to 1.43 or etc instead. --Sophie ♦ 06:18, 7 March 2023 (UTC)