Actually https://wiki.wikimedia.it/ is running [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26 | MediaWiki 1.26.4 ]] but some time is passed since 2015 and now **this version is no longer supported**.
We should upgrade the installation to assure maximum support to latest security patches (some of them were not back-ported) and maximum support for post-2015 features like [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor | VisualEditor ]], the [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Thanks | Extension:Thanks ]] and other awesome things that could be appreciated by Wikimedia Italia members.
In short we should take some time to:
* assure a backup
* check if upgrade is feasible on the same server
* upgrade from `1.26.4` to latest LTS `1.35`
* eventually adopt the cute [[ https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mediawiki | Debian mediawiki package ]][[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Legoktm/Packages | maintained by User:Legoktm ]]
* bonus point: track A/B configuration changes of our `LocalSettings.php` in Wikimedia Gerrit or whatever code hosting the community is discussing now between Phabricator and/or GitLab and/or GitHub and/or a nextCloud directory called `wikina-final-version-really-really-final-ok-really-ok-ok-2020.zip` asd