Updating can be risky business, so you want to make sure in advance that the updated system will work. To do this, you want to test your system with the new release of MediaWiki and all the relevant extensions, or learn from others who are using a similar configuration.
The Extension testing environment provides you with a virtual server where all the components can be tested. At this moment only the 1.13 version of MediaWiki is supported. When an extension is tested, it is important to know if and how it will affect the running other extensions; in a perfect world multiple extensions work together seamlessly, the amount of isolation between extension is something that needs testing.
We have defined four levels of isolation based on the test results. We consider:
Changes needed to the MediaWiki core
Changes to the database structure
The use of JAVA
Changes to Localsettings.php
As you can see on one server multiple MW version can be installed, here only 1.13.1. with a different WIL number.
Kennisnet is using the Extensions testing environment to make sure that its Wikis will continue to run smoothly. This is persistent and ready to use enviroment.
But if you prefer a other version that is possible but then you have to use a virtual server your self. Start the Wikiation_installer and type ls available
The result is :
7:~# wikiation_installer === Wikiation installer (v. 15) ===
please type a command and hit enter
help
^D, or quit
installer > ls available
Beta-2002-06-25/
Freeze-2002-06-25/
Initial/
Lamprey/
MOSTLY_WORKING/
RANDOM_RELEASETAG/
RC1-2002-07-11/
REL1_10_0/
REL1_10_0RC1/
REL1_10_0RC2/
REL1_10_1/
REL1_10_2/
REL1_10_3/
REL1_10_4/
REL1_11_0/
REL1_11_0RC1/
REL1_11_1/
REL1_11_2/
REL1_12_0/
REL1_12_0RC1/
REL1_12_1/
REL1_12_2/
REL1_12_3/
REL1_13_0/
REL1_13_0RC1/
REL1_13_0RC2/
REL1_13_1/
REL1_13_2/
REL1_13_3/
REL1_1_0/
REL1_2_0/
REL1_2_0rc1/
REL1_2_0rc2/
REL1_2_0rc3/
REL1_2_1/
REL1_2_2/
REL1_2_3/
REL1_2_4/
REL1_2_5/
REL1_2_6/
REL1_3_0/
REL1_3_0beta1/
REL1_3_0beta2/
REL1_3_0beta3/
REL1_3_0beta4/
REL1_3_0beta4a/
REL1_3_0beta5/
REL1_3_0beta6/
REL1_3_1/
REL1_3_10/
REL1_3_11/
REL1_3_12/
REL1_3_13/
REL1_3_14/
REL1_3_15/
REL1_3_16/
REL1_3_17/
REL1_3_18/
REL1_3_2/
REL1_3_3/
REL1_3_4/
REL1_3_5/
REL1_3_6/
REL1_3_7/
REL1_3_8/
REL1_3_9/
REL1_4_0/
REL1_4_1/
REL1_4_10/
REL1_4_11/
REL1_4_12/
REL1_4_13/
REL1_4_14/
REL1_4_15/
REL1_4_2/
REL1_4_3/
REL1_4_4/
REL1_4_5/
REL1_4_6/
REL1_4_7/
REL1_4_8/
REL1_4_9/
REL1_4beta1/
REL1_4beta2/
REL1_4beta3/
REL1_4beta4/
REL1_4beta5/
REL1_4beta6/
REL1_4branch/
REL1_4rc1/
REL1_5_0/
REL1_5_1/
REL1_5_2/
REL1_5_3/
REL1_5_4/
REL1_5_5/
REL1_5_6/
REL1_5_7/
REL1_5_8/
REL1_5_RC1/
REL1_5_RC2/
REL1_5_RC3/
REL1_5_branch/
REL1_5alpha1/
REL1_5alpha2/
REL1_5beta1/
REL1_5beta2/
REL1_5beta3/
REL1_5beta4/
REL1_6_0/
REL1_6_1/
REL1_6_10/
REL1_6_11/
REL1_6_2/
REL1_6_3/
REL1_6_4/
REL1_6_5/
REL1_6_6/
REL1_6_7/
REL1_6_8/
REL1_6_9/
REL1_7_0/
REL1_7_1/
REL1_7_2/
REL1_7_3/
REL1_8_0/
REL1_8_1/
REL1_8_2/
REL1_8_3/
REL1_8_4/
REL1_8_5/
REL1_9_0/
REL1_9_0RC1/
REL1_9_0RC2/
REL1_9_1/
REL1_9_2/
REL1_9_3/
REL1_9_4/
REL1_9_5/
REL1_9_6/
REV1_2/
R_PHASE3REORG/
WIKIMANIA_STEP1/
WITH_CSHARP/
arelease/
initial-udpmcast/
merged_to_schema_work/
merged_to_schema_work2/
merged_to_schema_work3/
merged_to_schema_work4/
merged_to_schema_work5/
merged_to_wikidata_1/
merged_to_wikidata_2/
start/
tug_0_1/
installer >
So enough to choose from.
Summery.
We want to make the extension testing environment as easy as possible to use. So we have the persistent extensions installed ready to use without any effort. But this can never be complete and identical to your situation. So with the virtual server you can install the specific MW version you want to test with. That is a bit more work but very flexible.
So now you are able to test an upgrade to new releases of MediaWiki and also be sure that new extensions will not upset the current smooth operations.
Thank you,
Bernard
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