Upgrades and Changes

This page documents changes in the installed software on the biowikifarm (new software, new version, new configuration, etc.), including notes on known problems. Upgrades and Changes from 2010 and 2011 are no longer shown and available through the page history. Older changes are occasionally archived

2017-10-26

Entire Biowikfarm now runs on at least MW 1.26.2 Andreas Plank (talk) 22:32, 26 October 2017 (CEST)

2017-11-12

New Wiki https://biowikifarm.net/wikibase/ for experimenting with properties covering multiple Wikis at once --Andreas Plank (talk) 17:01, 16 November 2017 (CET)

2017-12-30

Between 14. and 29.12 the biowikifarm experienced a serious outage. No data were lost, but a sequence of suddenly increased usage (perhaps through bots), resulting in a necessity to optimize and update software. However, in turn, this lead to software compatibility problems which proved hard to solve for all current administrators. We are working on improving our procedures and available resources to avoid such problems in the future. Among other changes, php was updated to 5.6 and the database to MariaDB 10.2 in this period. -Gregor Hagedorn (talk) 01:06, 30 December 2017 (CET)

2018-02-14

Installed and activated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CookieWarning . The extension was not yet installed for version 1.26, and manually added (this may be relevant on next upgrade!) Folders .../mediawiki26/extensions-rich-features/CookieWarning and .../mediawiki26/extensions-simple-features/CookieWarning were manually created and filled with separately downloaded code (version 1.30). --Gregor Hagedorn (talk) 01:37, 14 February 2018 (CET)

2018-12-19

A new version of nodejs and parsoid have been installed, which makes it now possible to active the VisualEditor. The steps required to install nodejs and parsoid have been documented at Parsoid installation and here is the guide to activate the Visual Editor in the individual wikis with different possible settings. This should make editing the wikis for regular users a lot easier. --David Fichtmueller (talk) 16:08, 19 December 2018 (CET)