Developing our wikis

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Friday 27 November 2009 Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> If you read UserBase in Konqueror it looks quite pleasant.  Read it in
>  Firefox and it is, frankly, downright unpleasant.  The same applies to
>  TechBase - not surprising, I guess, as they share a skin.  I'm told that
>  it would be quite easy to fix this so that the smaller, neater font is
>  used.
> 
> There is a discrepancy in font between body text and table text which makes
> pages with tables quite unpleasant.  For a good example, see
> http://userbase.kde.org/Amarok and scroll down the page.  Again, I'm told
>  it is easy to fix.

Yes, sounds like an easy fix. We still should do this. I think polishing is 
important, and we should try to make the Wikis a great experience for the 
user.

> Then there are some small additions to the skin that I'd like to make.
> 
> The Toolbox can hold a Printable Version link - I think that would be
> valuable.

This seems to already have been fixed.

> I'd like to see every page showing a Last Updated on ...... entry.  Yes, it
> would show where we are lacking, but it would, more importantly, allow a
>  quick assessment of how likely an entry is to be relevant to current
>  releases.

Yes, this would be helpful.

> It would, I think, be a politeness, as the very least, to show a small
> 'Powered by Mediawiki' icon.  It doesn't need to be big, or prominent, but
>  it should be there.

Sounds good to me.

> Now for bigger things.
> 
> We are running Mediawiki 1.14.0, despite there being a known vulnerability.
> This is release 50428, and the current release is 59487.  There has been a
> full stable release as well as the security fix since then, and 1.16 is
>  almost ready for release.  Our sandbox is running a version of 1.16, and
>  we are finding it totally stable.  More importantly, some high-profile
>  sites such as Wikipedia are already running 1.16 - and the version they
>  use is available to us.  We definitely shouldn't be as far behind as this
>  - and at the very least should have 1.15 plus the security fix.

Yes. Who is in control of the Wiki installation and could do the upgrade? Is 
this something sysadmin has to do, or can somebody else take care of it.

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>