Instead, use one of these channels:
Further options for contacting appropriate people can be found at Communication .
It is very disappointing that the seemingly *only* official source for MediaWiki releases, releases.wikimedia.org, requires client to support 206 partial content downloads.
Any client that cannot handle such chunked downloads will result in a truncated (=garbage) download.
I would like to see this configuration changed so that minimal clients could download MediaWiki releases.
A 206 response code should only be sent if your request contains a Range header. If you're seeing a 206 response code without sending a Range header, that's a bug, and we will need more details in order to isolate it.
I am looking for basic instructions on how to install MediaWiki. I downloaded Mediaiwiki 1.41.1. Now what? I am using a PC with windows.
Yes, 7zip can't be used on windows, but another solution/workaround is not provided on the page.
Using 7zip for extracting the downloaded .tar.gz does not work. I ran into this issue myself and found a thread by someone who had the same problem: Topic:Vp73pxywm362a3t5 Using the tar command that was brought over to Windows 10 a few releases ago did work, though. This download help page should be updated accordingly.
thanks @Itschotsch!
btw, tar is on board since Windows 10 build 17063 [1] (so since 21 Dec 2017[2])
[1]: https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/use-tar-on-windows-10/
[2]: https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-build-17063-pc-everything-you-need-know
Great. Thanks, Mark!
I see where 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 is not compatible, but I'm about to upgrade from 7.0.33 to 7.4.5. Can someone verify PHP >7.4.2 is good?
Fixed by @Ciencia Al Poder.
1.39.4 is labeled "legacy", but according to MediaWiki 1.39, "MediaWiki 1.39 is the current long-term support release of MediaWiki." (emphasis mine). I tried changing it myself, but there were so many nested templates that I had to give up😔
Done. Apparently only Template:DownloadMediaWiki needs to be updated, commenting / uncommenting the relevant lines, to avoid invalidating translated texts.
I've made one change, to Template:DownloadMediaWiki (see Topic:W9xkf3yz1ztx9h2u) but there are other parts of the Download page to change too. I apologise if I didn't do the edit correctly.
There is, since 1.35.0
Hi
I would like to help set up a wiki for a charity and being a regular Wikipedia editor I know how useful Visual Editor is. However the instructions to install Visual Editor all kinds of complicated and scary compared to installed MediaWiki. Would it be possible/how much extra work would it be to providea version of the MediaWiki installer which included VE?
Thanks :)
The instructions are 'scary' because it is complicated. In a few years it might be simpler, but that is not likely any time soon, sorry.
That's a disappointing perspective. I'm sure if enough people are frustrated they will make downloading it simple. John Cummings, do you have/know a contact inside Wikipedia who could change the downloading process? It didn't download for me, either.
I can see that there is no link to download 1.35, but the link for 1.39 appears twice. The parapgrahps under the links doesn't make sense neither:
To users of MediaWiki versions version 1.36, 1.37 and 1.34 and earlier: These versions are no longer supported. Please update to a newer version of MediaWiki.
I think that the third link (second time refering to 1.39.1) should point to 1.35.5 as the LTS, right?
lol we had this wrong since the release of 1.39 it seems...
I think I've fixed it
