Where to download modified MediaWiki

[Dori]

Hi, do you guys have a link to where someone could get the modified
MediaWiki (or patches)?

I would still love for someone to backport the spell checker to the
main trunk, but I'm too busy/lazy/unfamiliar to do it myself, and no
one else seems interested.

Dori

[Jeremy]

Post by Dori
Hi, do you guys have a link to where someone could get the modified
MediaWiki (or patches)?

I'm not clear on which "modified Mediawiki" you are looking for.
Do you mean the version we run on the LQ Wiki? We currently don't have
that available anywhere as most of it isn't of broad interest. We'd send
any bug fixes or things of that nature upstream so they'd make it into the
main CVS tree.

Post by Dori
I would still love for someone to backport the spell checker to the
main trunk, but I'm too busy/lazy/unfamiliar to do it myself, and no
one else seems interested.

Someone brought this up on one of the mediawiki mailing lists and
there seemed to be little interest in having it in the main tree, so it
was never sent.

--jeremy

[Dori]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:14:17 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy

Post by Jeremy

Post by Dori
Hi, do you guys have a link to where someone could get the modified
MediaWiki (or patches)?

I'm not clear on which "modified Mediawiki" you are looking for.
Do you mean the version we run on the LQ Wiki? We currently don't have
that available anywhere as most of it isn't of broad interest. We'd send
any bug fixes or things of that nature upstream so they'd make it into the
main CVS tree.

Yes, that's what I meant. It'd still be nice if you had a tarball or
something in case someone felt like taking a peek (others may be
interested in how you've changed the skin to integrate it better with
the site).

Post by Jeremy

Post by Dori
I would still love for someone to backport the spell checker to the
main trunk, but I'm too busy/lazy/unfamiliar to do it myself, and no
one else seems interested.

Someone brought this up on one of the mediawiki mailing lists and
there seemed to be little interest in having it in the main tree, so it
was never sent.

I brought it up once before :) I didn't have much hope then since you
guys were on a much older version, but if you made it work with 1.3.7
then it couldn't be that hard to plug back into the main branch if
someone wanted to. Besides, if it makes it in, that's one less thing
you'll have to change on some future release of MediaWiki you decide
to install (or do you have some way of doing the patch automagically?)

Dori

[Jeremy]

Post by Dori
I brought it up once before :) I didn't have much hope then since you
guys were on a much older version, but if you made it work with 1.3.7
then it couldn't be that hard to plug back into the main branch if
someone wanted to. Besides, if it makes it in, that's one less thing
you'll have to change on some future release of MediaWiki you decide
to install (or do you have some way of doing the patch automagically?)

If there is interest to get it merged in upstream, we'd certainly
be willing to submit it. One downside is that is does require a PHP
compile option that some may not have (or course, if merged upstream I
assume it would become a config option anyway, so it could just be disabled
for those who don't have it).

--jeremy

[Dori]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy

Post by Jeremy

Post by Dori
I brought it up once before :) I didn't have much hope then since you
guys were on a much older version, but if you made it work with 1.3.7
then it couldn't be that hard to plug back into the main branch if
someone wanted to. Besides, if it makes it in, that's one less thing
you'll have to change on some future release of MediaWiki you decide
to install (or do you have some way of doing the patch automagically?)

If there is interest to get it merged in upstream, we'd certainly
be willing to submit it. One downside is that is does require a PHP
compile option that some may not have (or course, if merged upstream I
assume it would become a config option anyway, so it could just be disabled
for those who don't have it).

Can it be turned into an extension (and I'm not a developer so I have
no idea what that entails)? I'm crossposting this to the mediawiki
mailing list where some of the devs might chime in.

[Jeremy]

Post by Dori
Can it be turned into an extension (and I'm not a developer so I have
no idea what that entails)?

That is not how it's programmed now.

Post by Dori
I'm crossposting this to the mediawiki
mailing list where some of the devs might chime in.

There still doesn't seem to be much interest for a patch. If that
changes, we'll be happy to oblige.

--jeremy