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it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
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NOTE: Installation of MediaWiki on SQLite has been temporarily disabled in this
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release due to the discovery of serious problems with the schema. We expect to
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fix this problem for the release of 1.15.0.
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== Changes since 1.14.0rc1 ==
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* Fixed the performance of the backlinks API module
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=== Changes since 1.15.0rc1 ===
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* Removed category redirect feature, implementation was incomplete.
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* (bug 18846) Remove update_password_format(), unnecessary, destroys all
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passwords if a wiki with $wgPasswordSalt=false is upgraded with the web
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* (bug 19127) Documentation warning for PostgreSQL users who run update.php:
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use the same user in AdminSettings.php as in LocalSettings.php.
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* Fixed possible web invocation of some maintenance scripts, due to the use of
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include() instead of require(). A full exploit would require a very strange
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web server configuration.
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* Localisation updates.
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=== Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
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* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
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* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
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* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
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from rel="nofollow" on external links
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* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
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* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
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to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
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* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
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namespace" option (disabled by default)
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=== New features in 1.15 ===
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* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
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* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
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for the current page for a given action
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* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
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to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
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* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
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* When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
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Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
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hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
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* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
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* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
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existing block when modifying an existing block.
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* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
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rather than hardcoded HTML tags
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* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
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extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
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* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
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* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
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* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
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recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
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* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
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* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
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* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
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link instead of Go button & Search button
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* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
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* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
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* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
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* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
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* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
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* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
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* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
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* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
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* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
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* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
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can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
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* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
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"mw-confirmemail-pending"
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* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
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parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
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part for a given title.
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* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
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* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
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* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
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* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
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* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
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class "mw-searchresult"
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* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
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* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
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* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
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LanguageConverter class)
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* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
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* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
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* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
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"mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
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* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
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this information will be public
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* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
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* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
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the active users data from site_stats.
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* Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
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* Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
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* Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
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'mw-editinginterface'
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* (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
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* Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
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of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
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* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
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* (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
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Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
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* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
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* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
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* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
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* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
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* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
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* Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
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with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
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* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
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of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
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* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
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LanguageConverter class)
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* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
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* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
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* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
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of the displayed revision's author user name
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* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
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a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
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* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables
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* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the
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dateformat parser function.
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* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited
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* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
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enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
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optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
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* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
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'mw-log-user', respectively
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* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
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usernames during registration (such as "@")
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* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
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used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
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on a different database
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* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
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=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
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* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
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* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
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before trying to delete the edit.
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* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
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* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
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the destination page exists
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* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
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* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
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LanguageConverter class)
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* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
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LanguageConverter class)
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* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
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* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
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* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
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* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
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allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
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* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
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* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
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* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
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* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
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* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
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* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
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* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
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* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
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* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
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comment label uses better message
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* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
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* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
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* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
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error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
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* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
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* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
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* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
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for identical files at different titles are still given.
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* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
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certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
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and the entries can be styled with CSS.
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* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
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* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
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results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
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* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
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* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
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* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
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* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
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* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
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* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
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* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
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and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
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* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
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* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
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longer affects the page title
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* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
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* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
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* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
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* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
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* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
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* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
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* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
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* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
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maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
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* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
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* (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
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* Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
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use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
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* (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
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* Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
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* File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
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* (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
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used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
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* (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
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* (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
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now point to the actual contributors' feed.
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* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
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* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
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$wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
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* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
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redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
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* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
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* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
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changed to rc_timestamp_bot
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* (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
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* (bug 17527) Fixed missing MySQL-specific options in installer
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=== Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
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* $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
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the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex-
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empt all content namespaces.)
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* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
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has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
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* (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
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$wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
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Changes feed that appears on all pages.
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* $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
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SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
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$wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
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* $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
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$wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
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group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
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Backwards compatibility is maintained.
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* $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
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word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
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is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
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* $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
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* $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
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* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
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with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
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* $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
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* Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
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* Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
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sitenotice cache keys.
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* $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
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* (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
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write actions using the API.
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* Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
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($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
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* Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
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on the wiki. If it's set to true, then the skin used will *always* be
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* Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
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on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
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* Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
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* (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File.
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For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may
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* The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and
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NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility,
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and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older.
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* MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
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using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
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* The 'BeforeWatchlist' hook has been removed due to internal changes in
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Special:Watchlist. 'SpecialWatchlistQuery' should now be used by extensions
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to customize the watchlist database query.
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=== Migrated extensions ===
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The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
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* Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
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extension DeletedContributions)
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* Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
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* Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
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=== New features in 1.14 ===
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* New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
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'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
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'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
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* Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
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respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
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MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
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PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
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* (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
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search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
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* Handheld stylesheet options
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* Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
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'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the
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'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
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run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
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if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
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* Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
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$wgCleanSignatures=false
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* Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
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sidebar and add custom portlets to it
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* Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
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ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
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* (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
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Special:ListGroupRights
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* (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
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* (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
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the main page to be customized
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* Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
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* Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
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added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
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being converted or not
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* (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
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* Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
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* Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
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after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
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templates to work with that hook.
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* (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
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'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
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* (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
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* By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
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so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
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* (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
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option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
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* (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
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Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
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* Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
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groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
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* HTML entities like now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
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* (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
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instead of a hardcoded colon.
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* Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
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* Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
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* BMP images are now displayed as PNG
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* (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
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* (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
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* Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
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* Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
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* Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
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treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
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displaying an external image inline.
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* (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
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* (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
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* (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
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* Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
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* After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
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* (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
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* (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
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* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
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plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
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* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
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deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
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* Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
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* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
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different restriction types on the protection form.
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* (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
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* Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
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* Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
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$wgExternalLinkTarget
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* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
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maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
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* Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
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arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
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solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
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* (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
191
using new "alt=" parameter for images
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* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
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namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
194
underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
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* Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
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default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
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marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
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* Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
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several uses of the same image.
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* (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
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wiki is set to read-only mode.
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* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
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This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
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from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
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called from within Article.php
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* Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
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$wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
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* (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
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is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
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* Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
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* Make search matches bold only, not red as well
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* (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
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* (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
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already directly blocked
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* (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
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* (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
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* Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
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* (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
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* (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
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* (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
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* Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
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image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
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$wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
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* New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
228
* (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
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* (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
231
* Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
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admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
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* Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
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* Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
235
* Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
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* Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
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* Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
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algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
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* Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted
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to sysop, just edit=sysop is enough
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* (bug 2391) A warning is now shown for invalid ISBN numbers on Special:Booksources.
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* Installer has been updated to reflect the release of the GFDL 1.3. The URL for 1.2
243
has been updated, and the 1.3 URL has been given. 1.2 is still Wikipedia-compatible.
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RightsCode was changed from 'gfdl' to 'gfdl1_2', so we can now support 1.2 as well
246
* (bug 16293) PD URL was changed to the CreativeCommons site on PD (which auto-detects
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your language) instead of Wikipedia.
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* (bug 16635) The "view and edit watchlist" page (Special:Watchlist/edit) now
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includes a table of contents
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* File objects returned by wfFindFile() are now cached by default
251
* (bug 7492) Rights can now be assigned to specific IP addresses and ranges by
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using $wgAutopromote (new defines: APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE)
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* Add a 'change block' link to Special:IPBlockList and Special:Log
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* (bug 16459) Use native getElementsByClassName where possible, for better
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performance in modern browsers
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* Enable \cancel and \cancelto in texvc (recompile required)
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* Added 'UserCryptPassword' and 'UserComparePasswords' hooks to allow extensions to implement
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their own password hashing methods.
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* (bug 16760) Add CSS-class to action links of Special:Log
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* (bug 505) Time zones can now be specified by location in user preferences,
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avoiding the need to manually update for DST. Patch by Brad Jorsch.
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* (bug 2585) HTTP 404 return code is now given for a page view if the page
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does not exist, allowing spiders and link checkers to detect broken links.
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* Special:Log: Add 'change protection' link for unprotected pages too
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* Special:Log: Add log type specific CSS classes 'mw-logline-$logtype' to
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* (bug 16754) Making arbitrary rows of sortable tables sticky:
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|- class="unsortable"
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* Show subversion too even if a "normal" version number is available
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* (bug 16121) Add a note that a page move was without creating a redirect in the
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* Image moving is now enabled for sysops by default
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* Make "Did you mean" search feature more noticeable
274
* (bug 16720) Transcluded Special:NewPages processes "/username="
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=== Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
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* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
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* (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
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falls back to the user option
281
* (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
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* Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
283
* Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
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* Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
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* (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
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* (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
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* (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
288
* Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
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* (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
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no longer redirect to the second link
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* (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
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a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
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Patch by Max Semenik.
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* (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
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user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
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* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
298
* (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
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wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
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* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
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diff entirely, not just the display of it.
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* (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
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allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
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* (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
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ns-special to special pages.
306
* (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
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* (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
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for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
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WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
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* (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
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* (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
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* (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
315
* Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
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contain '/*' in the title
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* Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
318
* $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
319
addition to body text.
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* Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
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from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
322
* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
324
* (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
325
* (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
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literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
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* (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
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namespace in Special:Watchlist
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* (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
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last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
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* (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
332
* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
333
Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
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long-lasting locks on that table.
335
* Respect file restrictions in the file history list
336
* (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
337
tables, and have been disabled by default.
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* (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
339
* (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
340
* (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
341
* (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
342
* (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
343
* (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
344
Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
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* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
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LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
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* Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
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pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
350
* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
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recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
352
* (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
353
instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
354
* (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
355
has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
356
* (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
357
* Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
358
* (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
359
* Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
360
* (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
361
* (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
362
* (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
363
* Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
364
* (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
365
* (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
366
* (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
367
* (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
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user can only change his rights
369
* (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
370
* (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
371
* (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
372
* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
373
bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
374
* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
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Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
376
* (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
377
* (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
379
* (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
380
* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
382
* (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
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* Purge form uses valid XHTML
385
* (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
386
* (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
387
if JavaScript is disabled
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* (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
389
* Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
390
* (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
391
* (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
392
* (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
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of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
394
* Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
396
* (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
398
* (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
399
* (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
401
* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
403
* (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
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revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
405
* (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
406
filename as the remote site.
407
* (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
408
* Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
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path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
410
* (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
411
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
412
* Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
413
formatting and path exposure.
414
* Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
415
* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
416
* Improved input validation on Special:Import form
417
* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
418
against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
420
* Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
421
* Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
422
* (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
423
* (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
424
* (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without
425
requiring customization of MySQL server settings
426
* Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages
427
* (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered
428
when page is re-parsed.
429
* (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are
430
now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end
431
up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text
432
handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards
433
* Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had
434
created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was
435
hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised
436
later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it
437
had marked them as having created another account, when their last account
438
creation had actually failed.
439
* (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-'
440
* (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki
442
* (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries
443
* (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding
444
* (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message
445
is now only displayed once
446
* (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser
447
* (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid
449
* (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for
450
new pages in the recent changes IRC feed
451
* Ugly tooltips in Special:Statistics were phased out in favor of more direct
452
information. Went ahead and rewrote SpecialStatistics to subclass SpecialPage
453
* (bug 5506) Links to files on foreign repositories are now shown consistently
454
as bluelinks e.g. in logs and edit summaries
455
* (bug 16623) Add missing </p> tag in Special:LockDB
456
* (bug 15849) Special:Movepage now throws a more specific error when trying to
457
move a title to an interwiki target
458
* (bug 16638) 8-bit URL fallback encoding now set on additional languages using
459
Arabic script (Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi)
460
* (bug 16656) cleanupTitles and friends should now work in load-balanced
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DB environments when $wgDBserver isn't set.
462
* (bug 3691) Aspect ratio from viewBox attribute is now preserved for SVG
463
images which do not specify width and height attributes.
464
* (bug 15027) Internet domain names and IP addresses can now be indexed and
465
searched sensibly with the default MySQL search backend.
466
* (bug 11733) Fixed parameter validation in importTextFile.php
467
* (bug 16712) Special:NewFiles updated to use "newer"/"older" paging messages
468
for clarity over "previous/next"
469
* (bug 16612) Fixed "noprint" class for Modern skin print style
470
* Section anchors now have an "id" attribute as well as a "name" attribute,
471
even when Tidy is not used
472
* (bug 16026) revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete,
473
redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text
474
rather than raw HTML markup
475
* (bug 13835) Fix rendering of {{filepath:Wiki.png|nowiki}}
476
* (bug 16772) Special:Upload now correctly rejects files with spaces in the
477
file extension (e.g. Foo. jpg).
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* Image moving over an existing file no longer throws a database error
479
* (bug 16786) Restored "redundant" links recently removed from Classic sidebar
480
* (bug 16850) $wgActionPaths can have query strings now, previously, this broke
482
* (bug 16376) Mention in deleteBatch.php and moveBatch.php maintenance scripts
483
that STDIN can be used for page list
484
* (bug 16560) Special:Random returns a page from ContentNamespaces, and no
486
* (bug 16123) Fixed Special:Import on SQLite.
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* (bug 16937) Show appropriate error message for attempted installs on
488
PostgreSQL 7.3 or earlier.
489
* Disabled SQLite support in the installer.
490
* Fixed XSS vulnerabilities in the web-based installer.
491
* Added a meta robots tag to the installer to prevent indexing of potentially
492
sensitive configuration data.
493
* (bug 16483) Prevented a filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
261
* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
262
* (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
263
on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
264
* (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
266
* Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
267
* (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
269
* (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
270
* (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
271
* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
272
* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
274
* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
275
* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
276
* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
278
* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
279
displayed revision if it's not the current one
280
* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
281
* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
282
namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
283
* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
284
* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
285
no longer corrupts the message cache
286
* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
287
* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
288
* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
289
* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
290
* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
291
* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
292
two "page" parameters
293
* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
294
don't use PathInfo or short urls
295
* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
297
* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
298
* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
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* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
301
* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
302
* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when
303
you cut-and-paste article text
304
* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
305
* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
306
* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and
307
"Previous edit" diff links
308
* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as
310
* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
311
* Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop
312
involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is
314
* (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data
316
* (bug 16937) Fixed PostgreSQL installation on Windows, workaround for upstream
318
* (bug 11451) Fix upgrade from MediaWiki 1.2 or earlier (imagelinks schema).
319
* Fixed SQLite indexes, installation and upgrade. Reintroduced it as an option
321
* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
322
* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
324
== API changes in 1.15 ==
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* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
327
and listing all deleted pages possible
328
* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
329
* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
330
* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
331
created the page, even if it's not the top revision
332
* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
333
* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
334
* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
335
* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
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336
Building query properly now using makeList()
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=== API changes in 1.14 ===
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* Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
499
shown as empty instead of the current time.
500
* API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
501
or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
502
This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
503
&srwhat=text to the query.
504
* Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
505
* (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
506
are now listed on action=help
507
* (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
509
* (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
511
* When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
512
* list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
513
* (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
514
non-hidden categories
515
* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
516
an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
517
* list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
518
etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
519
for consistency with other list modules.
521
* (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
522
* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an
523
empty section with section=new
524
* Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
525
nochange flag any more
526
* (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
527
* (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
528
return just "Unknown error"
529
* (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
530
* (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
531
* (bug 15466) Added action=purge
532
* (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
533
* (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
534
* (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
535
* (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
536
if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
537
* list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
538
* Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
539
hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
540
* action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
541
* (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
542
WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
543
* (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
544
rather than causing an exception
545
* Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
546
* (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
547
* Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
548
be disabled in LocalSettings.php
549
* (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
550
* (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
551
* (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
552
and undeleted since the last edit
553
* (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
555
* Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
556
* (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
557
* (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
558
manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
559
* (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
560
* The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
561
* (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
562
and patrolmarks right
563
* (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
565
* (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
567
* (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
568
sortkeys containing pipes
569
* (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
570
works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
571
* (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
573
* Added redirect resolution to action=parse
574
* (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
576
* (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
577
* (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
578
* (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
579
* (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
580
* meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
582
* (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
584
* (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
585
* (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
586
* (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
588
* (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work
589
* (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users
590
* (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code
591
* (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse
592
* (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output
593
* (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading
594
protection wasn't allowed
595
* (bug 16626) action=delete now correctly handles empty "reason" param
596
* (bug 15579) clshow considers all categories !hidden
597
* (bug 16647) list=allcategories, prop=categories don't return "hidden"
598
property for hidden categories
599
* New siprop parameter of 'extensions' to list all installed extensions
600
* (bug 16672) Include canonical namespace name in
601
meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces.
602
* (bug 16726) siprop=namespacealiases should also list localized aliases
603
* (bug 16730) Added apprfiltercascade parameter to list=allpages to filter
604
cascade-protected pages
605
* (bug 16798) JSON encoding errors for some characters outside the BMP
606
* (bug 16629) prop=info&inprop=protection lists empty legacy protections
608
* (bug 15261, 16262) API no longer outputs invalid UTF-8
609
* Fix broken list=alllinks paging and make alunique actually work
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=== Languages updated in 1.14 ===
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* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
339
* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
340
* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
341
* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
342
* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
343
* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
344
* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
345
* (bug 17007) Added action=import
346
* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
347
of performance concerns
348
* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
350
* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
351
limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
352
* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
353
* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
354
* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
355
* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
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* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
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aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
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* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
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* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
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* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
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* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
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* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
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* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
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without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
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* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
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when someone tries to use them
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* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
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* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
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message to be included in the page text
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* (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
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* (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
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* (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output
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=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
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MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
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regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
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regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
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changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
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* Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
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* Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
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* Lezghian (lez) (new)
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* Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
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* Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
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* Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
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* Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
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* Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
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* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
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* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
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* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
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* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
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* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
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* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
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* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
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* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
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* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
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* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
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* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
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* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
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when the user is blocked
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* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
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== Compatibility ==
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MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
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MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
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