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I wonder what this means for wikipedia? Will they be migrating to a hack only stack now?
by dcgudeman 9y ago
I wonder what this means for wikipedia? Will they be migrating to a hack only stack now?
- mch82 9y agoVery interested to find out if anyone has an answer
- zeitg3ist 9y agoMediaWiki runs on more than 25k websites [1] other than Wikipedia, so I don't see them switching to Hack only. Also, I run a pretty big MediaWiki site and the last time I tried moving everything to HHVM (~6 months ago, I think) stuff appeared to be working initially but randomly broke from time to time (probably because of Scribunto or some other extension; couldn't manage to pinpoint the exact reason). PHP 7 didn't give me any problem at all; it's fast enough (way faster than PHP 5) and most pages are served by the Redis cache anyway. I suspect that Wikipedia will consider a move back to PHP, they're moving the most expensive logic to Lua modules anyway... [1] https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page
- MrsRobot 9y agoCheck out this: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-September/088784.html https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-Septem...