[SAC] Fwd: MediaWiki 1.16 is too old and unsupported

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I'm not exactly clear how I got this message, perhaps via
info at osgeo.org, but I thought this was the group to see it.

Best regards,


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Federico Leva <federico.leva at studenti.unimi.it>
Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:31 AM
Subject: MediaWiki 1.16 is too old and unsupported
To: federico.leva at studenti.unimi.it



Hello,
we have noted that your wiki still runs MediaWiki 1.16, a definitely
old release (July 2010) whose support ended more than a year ago, in
November 2011. Several security patches have been included since then.
The current stable release is MediaWiki 1.20.2
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20>(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20):
it's strongly suggested to update to the last stable release or to the
current long-term support (LTS) release, 1.19.3, which will be
supported until May 2015.
Please see the page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Why_upgrade.3F>(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Why_upgrade.3F)
for more information on why you should upgrade, instructions, links to
release notes and more resources. Since 1.18, the installation process
should be much easier, including also the most needed extensions.
We'd be delighted to hear back from you suggestions on how to make the
upgrade process better, how you would like release notes to be, what
other extensions we should bundle in the tarball and in general what
makes you (not) want to install/upgrade MediaWiki.
Kind regards, Federico / [[User:Nemo_bis]] P.s.: I took this data from
wikistats' list of wikis, forgive me if there are mistakes.


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