Forum:MediaWiki 1.14 upgrade

Hey guys,

A couple of months ago, the Wikimedia Foundation released MediaWiki 1.14, which is the next version of the software that runs the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki, and all of the rest of Wikia. You can read about the changes that MediaWiki 1.14 bring here. We have been working to get that ready for release on Wikia over the past few weeks. The time to migrate to MediaWiki 1.14 has finally come, and Yu-Gi-Oh! will be the first wiki on Wikia to migrate to the new version. Here's how it will work:


 * 1) Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 14th), we will have a beta version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki up and running on MediaWiki 1.14.  It will run off of the live database, but it should give you a chance to test everything and recognize any potential problems before they reach the main live site.  We'll need your help identifying bugs so that we can get those fixed as quickly as possible.  I will post the address of this beta wiki when it goes up tomorrow.


 * 1) Later this week (perhaps as early as Wednesday, depending on what bugs we identify), we will migrate the live Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki to MediaWiki 1.14.  After 1.14 goes live-to-site, our tech team will be standing by to fix any issues that arise as quickly as possible.

We anticipate that this migration will be smooth, but because Yu-Gi-Oh! uses Semantic MediaWiki pretty heavily, as well as some other features, there may be some bugs that need to be addressed.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 20:37, 13 April 2009 (UTC)