We’ve had a bug about documentation in Mediawiki open since August 10, 2004. In fact, it was the first bug ever filed when Mediawiki moved over to using Bugzilla. In the past 5 years, MediaWiki has grown in quite a few ways. There’s more developers than ever before committing code faster than ever before (a [...]
Just as a brief update, the maintenance-work branch is progressing quite nicely. The vast majority of the commonly used scripts have been ported thus far, and Maintenance.php is a nice powerful class with a lot of stuff to make writing maintenance scripts quick and straightforward. My todo list has gotten down to this: Work on [...]
Anyone who has worked with MediaWiki can tell you that the maintenance scripts are not the most-maintained bits of code. Most of them still work, at least to some degree, but there are certainly bugs that need fixing, and the code is rather outdated and certainly not flexible to improvements. I decided to embark on [...]
