Tofty told me that “As the foundation upon which Fandom editing is built, it's important to keep MediaWiki up to date so that the platform stays fresh and relevant.
#MEDIAWIKI UPDATE HOW TO#
ProfessorTofty is a long-time editor on the Harry Potter Wiki and Wookieepedia, and a Wiki Specialist on the Community Activations team, so he’s got years worth of experience in how to create content on Fandom and what tools are needed to do so. Happy to see the platform continue to stay with the times!”
#MEDIAWIKI UPDATE UPDATE#
The last update brought great quality-of-life improvements, such as the ability to rename categories or the edit links on WhatLinksHere, that greatly improved the lives of those working on site maintenance. And what he told me was that “Keeping up-to-date with new MediaWiki software has been extremely beneficial to us. He’s about as hardcore a wiki editor as I’ve ever seen. Technobliterator is a long-time admin for the Final Fantasy and Ratchet & Clank wikis. So why not hear from some community members too? Fandom community members asked for MediaWiki upgrades for years, leading us to the UCP project, and Gamepedia wikis were regularly updated pre-merger. But hey, you don’t just have to take my word for it. So you can rest easy knowing that this will be pretty straightforward this time around!Īside from what I already mentioned, there’s plenty of benefits.
The benefit of being on UCP now is that we will be able to regularly update MediaWiki, with our intention being to do so about once per year, and avoid massive changes in one big update. It’s a massive set of changes all at once, and it can be pretty overwhelming to have to learn how it works. But the transition from UCP was like going from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 13. Because it’s minor changes here and there. Normally if you keep up to date with your phone updates, the changes are very minor. It was a massive undertaking that took months to be able to roll out, and the rollout came with a lot of bugs because of all those modifications we made and the custom platform elements that had to be supported along with the update.īecause we were so out of date, the transition to UCP wasn’t like a regular phone update. Some of you might remember the last time we updated MediaWiki pre-UCP, in 2012. Because ours was so modified, it meant we couldn’t keep up to date with the Foundation by upgrading MediaWiki as new versions were released.
Prior to UCP, the Fandom platform was using a heavily modified instance of MediaWiki 1.19, a version of the software which the Wikimedia Foundation had not supported since 2015. I mentioned how this would be different from the transition to UCP, so let me explain why for a second using that phone metaphor. This is our version of a software update.
#MEDIAWIKI UPDATE INSTALL#
Every once in a while, your phone asks you to download and install software updates that bring (hopefully) improvements to your phone, security updates, and more. Think of it like an iPhone or Android update. A MediaWiki upgrade means updating to the most recent version of MediaWiki that’s available via the Wikimedia Foundation, which maintains the software that powers Fandom.
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