Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-09-05/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and International Operational News

By ForestH2, 5 September 2006

Last week in MediaWiki Software

  • Introduce "anchorencode" colon function (Rob Church) r16279
  • Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows (Rob Church)
  • Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update default message text
  • Uploading directly from public URLs now allowed. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php. Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate.
  • Fix Atom feed version number in header links (Brion Vibber)
  • List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version (Rob Church)
  • Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable
  • Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list
  • Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip (Rob Church)
  • MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage may optionally contain wiki links to any number of disambiguation templates.
  • Special:Disambiguations now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed any of the templates listed at MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage.
  • Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete (Rob Church)
  • Fix action=raw&templates=expand (Brion Vibber)
  • Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins (Brion Vibber)
  • Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't read the main page in the first place (Rob Church)
  • Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm (Brion Vibber)
  • Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload' in Special:Upload (Jimmy Collins)
  • Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the format for WSR-1 SisterSites support


Also this week: — Everyking desysopped — Photo debate — 1,000 administrators — Board elections — Italian Wikipedia — Press coverage — News and notes — Features and admins — Technology report — Arbitration report

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