Forum:MediaWiki 1.14 upgrade

Hi everyone,

We're getting ready to roll out MediaWiki 1.14, the latest version of the MediaWiki software that runs Wikia. You can read more about the changes and new features in MediaWiki 1.14 here. MediaWiki 1.14 will be rolled out in two phases so that we can do some load testing and address important issues over a longer period of time. Our current plans for the roll-out schedule look like this (these dates may change): MediaWiki 1.14 has been live on Yu-Gi-Oh! for several days now and it has gone smoothly, so we don't anticipate any major problems, but if you see any issues or have any questions, please post them below.
 * April 22nd-23rd: All wikis except for the 10 wikis with the most articles/traffic (listed below) will be upgraded.
 * April 29th: The 10 wikis with the most articles/traffic will be upgraded.
 * Note: We expect to have beta versions of these 10 wikis running on MediaWiki 1.14 available for testing starting on April 20th.
 * www.wowwiki.com
 * wiki.ffxiclopedia.org
 * fallout.wikia.com
 * starwars.wikia.com
 * answers.wikia.com
 * runescape.wikia.com
 * tibia.wikia.com
 * lostpedia.wikia.com
 * guildwars.wikia.com
 * naruto.wikia.com

Thanks! -- KyleH (talk) 21:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Special:Random
"Special:Random will now show a page in any content namespace " &mdash; which namespaces count as content namespace? -- ◄mendel► 22:34, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * By default, only the main namespace is considered a content namespace; however, many wikis have custom namespaces which have been added to the list of content namespaces. It's a configurable option. --KyleH (talk) 22:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. -- ◄mendel► 22:54, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

'pagetitle-view-mainpage'
"New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML of the main page to be customized" — Is anyone going to bother fixing, or reminding people to fix the old setup where Wikia introduced parserfunctions into MediaWiki:Pagetitle to do just this? ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 17, 2009 @ 22:56 (UTC)
 * Already thought of that. We've fixed it in the default messages/code, and will be running a bot to find->fix the old ones we put in place, and notify the wikis that have customized mw:pagetitle about this change. --Uberfuzzy 05:10, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

$wgRestrictDisplayTitle
Is the use of $wgRestrictDisplayTitle a good suggestion for any of the wiki that are currently making use of any one of the horrid hacks? ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 17, 2009 @ 22:59 (UTC)
 * Details? Examples? Sounds like you have an understanding of said "hacks". --Uberfuzzy 05:10, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, I misunderstood. Currently only allows case changes (IPod -> iPod, but not IPod -> Zune), that restriction is not changing. This flag only allows the for possibility for that restriction to be lifted if desired. Most of the   hacks i've seen involve the use of javascript to replace the text. If you know of a way/place/example how it is being done with , I'm all ears. --Uberfuzzy 05:18, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * There are two versions floating around. One title hack uses JS to replace the title, the other uses CSS to overlay it. The JS one only works when JS is enabled, and the CSS one has bugs when you have a sitenotice.
 * There are two common purposes the hack are being used for. On some wiki it's used to be able to italicize part of the title. On other wiki it's used for do things like removing (parens) or Namespaces:.
 * The later use could be replaced with use of displaytitle rather than the title hack.
 * Though, I suppose it probably wouldn't be that far of a stretch to make it possible to use WikiText. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 18, 2009 @ 05:25 (UTC)
 * It will be interesting to see what effects this flag has when enabled, and displaytitle can actually make those changes. The cases where we allow this will be very rare, if any I believe. --Uberfuzzy 06:28, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The point is that the hacks already make it possible to mess with the page titles (and in fact, messing with people's minds are some of the uncommon uses it's being put to, e.g. on humour wikis), and enabling this to be done via "displaytitle" would just make those wikis that do this more consistent and bugless in their viewing experience than they are now. -- ◄mendel► 10:06, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * The use of title hack are not only to change casing. It's very usefull to insert illegal caracters in the title (when absolutely necessary), like i've done on this page. But as you can see, my custom version of the hack also tell that the real title is something else. — TulipVorlax 20:30, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Merge
Will the merge option be activated or only by request? --
 * Do you mean Special:MergeHistory, or the ability to merge or rename user accounts? --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 21:44, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah the Special history merge --
 * I requested this for a wiki some time ago and staff wouldn't enable it because of some technical reason I can't remember. Not sure if the upgrade will change this. -- 17:57, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Moving images

 * 1) If I move  to , will a page which has   on it show   (like a redirect)?
 * 2) Why should regular users not be able to move them? There is a move throttle there to stop mass page-move spam, so I can't see why it shouldn't apply to images as well.
 * Will there be a simple-ish url system when moving files (i.e. ). With something like that one could easily set up a "requests for file renaming" page.  17:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yep, a redirect will be left behind if you choose to leave one, if you uncheck the box, there will be no redirect.
 * I'm pretty sure a request from staff can adjust the access rights for the feature.


 * -- 17:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You should request the second at MediaWiki.org, so that it can be included in future releases. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 17:59, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't recommend that as MediaWiki default permissions are designed to accommodate Wikimedia Foundation Wikis. The norm is to have Wikia Staff adjust it to fit Wikia's needs. -- 19:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Btw, I checked on the image/file move throttler, it's the same as for articles - though as the ability is currently restricted to sysops anyway, you shouldn't notice any throttling. 13:11, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * As a "Bureaucrat,Sysop" I am able to move files but do not get the "Leave a redirect behind" option, but I do get the option with as a "Sysop,Bot"--Sxerks 19:12, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I had the same problem, but I tried it anyway and it seemed to do it automatically for me. Hunterj | My talk 20:14, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The 'suppressredirect' right isn't granted to sysop users by default in 1.14. Should be safe for staff to readd it, though. - Adan Aileron (talk) 20:51, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Dofus wiki redirects to the Central Wikia
Please see Forum:Dofus wikia redirected to wikia central. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 13:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * This has now been fixed - http://www.wikia.com/dofus/Dofus_Wiki works again. 14:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Spam filter Problem
It seems that there are problems of spam filter in EVCHK. Now we cannot edit any pages, even sysop could not.

It just shows that "The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to a blacklisted external site. "--疾風綾希 13:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Passed on to the tech team, we'll get it sorted out. 14:17, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks to be fixed. Apologies for the downtime. 19:09, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Memory Alpha inaccessible?
Hi, we're concerned that none of the version, except the English one, is accessible, since today at 01:00 p.m. It seems that the whole database was erased. Any suggest/help/hint? Thanks! --Gifh 13:54, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that - passing this on to the tech team. 14:17, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Should be fixed now :) 14:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Great, thank you for your quick solving! Best Regard. --Gifh 14:58, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

WoWWiki non-monaco skin problems
The following lines (or similar) appear to be missing from the Wowwiki skin's HTML source on beta.wowwiki:

/*<![CDATA[*/ @import "/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&usemsgcache=yes&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=86400"; @import "/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wowwiki.css&usemsgcache=yes&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=86400"; @import "/index.php?title=-&action=raw&gen=css&maxage=86400&smaxage=0&ts=20090423042102&useskin=wowwiki"; @import "/index.php?title=User:Pcj/wowwiki.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css"; /*]]>*/

This makes the site look like this (as opposed to live). If you could look into it, I (and others) would appreciate it. --Pcj (T&bull;C) 16:39, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Confirmed and passing it on, thanks! 17:07, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Deletedcontributions extension
As the functionality of this extension has been folded into the core of MediaWiki 1.14, the Deletedcontributions extension should be disabled on all version 1.14 wikis. - Adan Aileron (talk) 20:51, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Good call. Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 20:57, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Same goes for LinkSearch and Newuserlog. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 24, 2009 @ 02:28 (UTC)

MediaWiki pages
Some one knows if there new MediaWiki pages or deprecated ones? --


 * MediaWiki:pagetitle-view-mainpage, replaces the need for parserfunctions inside of MediaWiki:Pagetite when you want the main page to display something like "Animepedia" instead of "Main Page - Animepedia" ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 24, 2009 @ 02:22 (UTC)


 * Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form, respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
 * MediaWiki:Print.css for adding css to the printable mode.
 * revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete, redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text rather than raw HTML markup
 * ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 24, 2009 @ 02:42 (UTC)

Missing note
^_^ There's a new feature missing in the updates list. It's not properly listed in that release notes page so I expect it might be an older feature that Wikia just missed out on or something.

Rollbacks now show a diff of what was actually rolled back as shown here. This was an improvement I personally added to MediaWiki after ages of rolling edits back on wiki and always being annoyed at going from a combined edits link on recent changes, reverting it, and being uncertain of if I actually reverted the issue or if some of the other changes made snuffed out and screwed up my rollback causing it to revert something good instead. The feature can be disabled by a user preference if one decides that they don't want large diffs showing up in reverts they make. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 24, 2009 @ 02:22 (UTC)
 * Mmmm thats not new (i think) i would say old or experimental i have been seeing them (min 2 months ago) but very inconsistent and thought it was a bug but did not knew how to duplicate so i did not report it as it was also not annoying. --
 * Yes it was originally a feature added to 1.13, I believe when Wikia updated I was confused why the feature wasn't added properly. When Wikia was on 1.13 I never in the entire time of piles of reverts saw it working. Well, in any case it's now a consistently working feature. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 24, 2009 @ 06:11 (UTC)

Yay for Dofus Issues
the ES and DE (the ones i check but i bet all the languages are suffering from the same issue) due to our undisclosed reasons and unique URL... the MediaWiki:Common.css from central is being used instead the wikis CSS page. English its the only exception to this. I already report it with the Special:Contact --