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Needed :
Upgrade Mediawiki

Current: 1- DBMS: Mysql 3.23.58 2- Web server:Apache 2.0.51 3- PHP 4.3.11 4- Mediawiki version 1.2.6

Target Stable Versions:

0- O/S: MS Windows(NT/2000/XP), MS Window Server 2003 1- DBMS: MySQL version 4.1.14 2- Apache: No upgrade 3- Programming Language: PHP 5 4- Mediawiki stable version 1.5.0 - released Oct 15,2005

Notes:

-MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a recommended upgrade for all installations.

This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer. Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers are not vulnerable.

- MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully unaware of it.

- The MediaWiki 1.4.x and 1.3.x series are not compatible with PHP 5.0.5 or higher. Upgrade to the 1.5.0 release if you require this version of PHP 5.

- IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet? Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.



To Do
How do we create and use templates? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template

See Forums for mediawiki postings http://perc.ca/phpBB2/search.php?mode=results&sid=fe157ef34cdbc30457206adb3e77cc3f


 * Resources
 * Krishna Bera
 * Lakshmi Rao