OK, now that there is a link to e.g., https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;h=085367d5ac042fa56be1fe1d4b259d3f96275108
that is better. However perhaps a date could be shown without requiring a click.
Also say that is the upstream date, not the date the wikisysop copied it to disk.

(In reply to comment #0)

Now with git version numbers one cannot tell which wiki is newer.
Where in the history of software is there a version command that doesn't
let you figure out what version is newer?
Takes much of the point out of the version command.

git log will show you the history. Your assumption that git does not support this is flawed.

Worse is on the surface one still thinks these new hex numbers are in
order, and still tries to compare them.

Who thinks that?

I did write Comment 1 too you know.

Note that the date of that revision could be earlier than the tree if the tip was a cherry-pick.

(In reply to comment #4)

Note that the date of that revision could be earlier than the tree if the tip
was a cherry-pick.

That's very true...I don't know of any way we could recognize the difference other than checking the remotes. Even then, it wouldn't be ideal :\

I don't understand, are git hashes even included at all currently? See bug 53335 comment 9.

OK now http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:Version says

MediaWiki 1.23alpha (b59acb6)
2014-01-26T18:41:40

Which is good, but I would still add a mouseover upon the date,
saying if it was when the administrator installed it on the current server, or when that commit was made.