[Systems] Mediawiki 1.18.1 on wiki.sugarlabs.org

[Frederick Grose]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 00:56 +0000, Frederick Grose wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti
> > <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> >         At long last, I've upgraded our production Wiki to MW 1.18.1
> >         and enabled
> >         the TimedMediaHandler extension.
> >
> >         I'm still not convinced about the WikiEditor. Please test it
> >         in the
> >         wiki-devel and report back.
> >
> > This bug,
> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22428#c27
> > also discussed here,
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/private/systems/2011-May/002995.html
> >
> > seems to be fixed in wiki-devel
> > http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org/go/Sandbox2
> >  (testing with XO-1.75 in Browse).
>
> Yes, but I'm seeing many other issues:
>
> 1. I pasted a large amount of text into the editor and it made the tab
> freeze (Chromium 18.0.997.0).
>
> 2. With Firefox, I start editing text, sometimes empty lines appear
> unexpectedly just above my text.
>
> 3. The preview button at the bottom of the page sometimes shows a
> spinning animation forever, sometimes it fails with this error message:
> "Some parts of the edit form did not reach the server; double-check that
> your edits are intact and try again."
>
> I guess this ajax editor is still too immature; If we don't want
> trouble, we'd better wait to enable it until wikipedia.org does.
>

But when I go to http://en.wikipedia.org/ anonymously, the WikiEditor seems
to be enabled by default.  ?!
                --Fred
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