Forum:MediaWiki 1.13 upgrade

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On Tuesday, September 9th, our tech team plans to upgrade MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikia, to version 1.13. You can check out more information about what that upgrade means here. While we don't anticipate any major problems, some issues may appear. Please report any odd site behavior on this page, and we'll try to get those issues resolved as quickly as possible.

Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 17:45, 5 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. I like the double redirect feature.
 * WHLfan (talk to me!) 22:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

The upgrade has been delayed a day in order to ensure a smoother rollout - it is now planned for Wednesday. For those interested, the upgrade will be to 1.13.1, which was released a couple of days ago :) 14:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Proxima Centauri have had trouble logging out and logging back in with the other account. We use the same computer.  Our computer is erratic.  We don't know if the problem is with our computer or yours. Barbara Shack 18:12, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * No update occured yet so it's not related. I hope you find help anyway. — TulipVorlax 20:07, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * We have been making some changes to our caching servers over the past several days. (These changes are unrelated to the MediaWiki 1.13 rollout.)  Try clearing all of the cookies in your browser, then coming back and logging in again. --KyleH (talk) 20:43, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I was comming here to ask if the ads are temporairly disabled (so it do not interfere with upgrading) or what ? On fr.3d and fr.guildwars i dont see them (even though i have show all ads checked). I only see a white space where the ad block should be. — TulipVorlax 20:07, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * We have temporarily removed most of the advertising from wikis in languages other than English or German. Right now, our foreign language sites are pretty small so it doesn't make much sense for us to devote resources to selling and managing advertising on them.  Once those languages grow some, we'll probably enable the advertisements again, but for now most ads are disabled.  --KyleH (talk) 20:43, 9 September 2008 (UTC)