Hello!
I intend to perform some preventative maintenance on the MusicBrainz Wiki server this weekend, primarily on Friday night and Saturday afternoon (from an eastern US standpoint). This maintenance is necessary to keep the wiki software itself, as well as its supporting components—database, web server, etc.—on supported versions.
The wiki will not be as available as usual during maintenance periods, since some operations fundamentally require stopping and/or restarting various components; critical pages like style guidelines are already transcluded to MusicBrainz and thus should still be available there, but some things like the userscript list and other user-generated content may be downright unavailable for a few minutes at a time during maintenance. Please bear with me while I work to keep the wiki system in good shape
Some more technical details are discussed in the ticket shown below. This weekend, I intend to get MediaWiki to at least the latest 1.39.x release, but if I have enough time and systems cooperate, then hopefully I’ll be able to proceed to one of the more recent stable versions.
Unfortunately, tonight’s upgrade attempt was not successful for reasons described in this ticket comment.
I’ve just about run out of steam, and a new plan of attack will be necessary; I plan to pick up the work tomorrow late morning/early afternoon EST. In the meantime, the wiki has been restored to its pre-upgrade-attempt state, though the underlying server has had a number of patches/bug fixes/etc. applied.
Maintenance is considered effectively complete at this time. The wiki has been upgraded all the way to the latest stable version of MediaWiki, bringing with it some measurable improvements.
There are a couple of noticeable bugs at this point, both to do with the mobile view:
The mobile theme still has a rather pesky left margin making it hard to read content, and customizations that worked easily for the desktop theme are not working here for some reason.
The mobile view does not currently respect dark mode preferences, whereas the desktop view does.
Both of these will require further work on the MetaBrainz side, but should not involve further downtime.
Thanks! I actually tried fixing this for mobile at the same time as I was (successfully) fixing this exact bug on other themes, but I suppose I didn’t quite figure out exactly which CSS file applied to the mobile view yet (due to multiple overlapping MediaWiki extensions being involved). Looks like Common should do the trick
I’m traveling this evening for a conference, but once I get some downtime, I should have the necessary permissions to edit the current Common.css style for the wiki.
@jesus2099, I think this is fixed as of this freshly made edit. Could you please test on your device? You might need to clear your browser’s cache or otherwise bypass it in order to pick up the changes.
Super! It works great, without user stylesheet!
You have also updated the whole theme and the menu is now displaying good, without user stylesheet, either.
I can drop my user stylesheet.
Thanks very much.
