Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Updates/A comment about the 1.26 upgrade

Hi there,

The MediaWiki 1.26 upgrade that was performed today has succeeded, but it took another hour longer for All The Tropes than expected (there already was a scheduled maintenance window of two hours, but ATT was read-only for three hours instead).

I'm sorry for that. When running update.php (that's a script we use for updating the database so it will work with extension/MediaWiki changes), I noticed it (likely, I couldn't find out whether it did or not) ran populateLogUsertext.php (that 'fixes' username log entries in Special:Log). Running populateLogUsertext.php could have a more or less catastrophic effect to Special:Log entries that were made before the move to Miraheze, with as result completely inaccurate log entries that could have been unrecoverable.

Since I didn't want to take any risk, I decided to restore a part of the backup we made just before updating MediaWiki. I know it's a pity the wiki was read-only for another hour, but I hope you understand why I chose for it.

-- Southparkfan, Miraheze System Administrator.