Developing our wikis

[Ingo Malchow]

2009/11/28 Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>:
> 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.
>

I can do the upgrade, as soon as we are sure about the test installation.

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> Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>