User:Robchurch/Software/12-06-2006

Changes to the MediaWiki software as of 12/06/2006
This list isn't exhaustive; it lists only things which English Wikipedia users are going to notice. Times, where given, are in UTC.

Image undeletion
Images can now be undeleted, thanks to Brion Vibber, who has been working on parts of the new FileStore mechanism, which will be rolled out in the future to store all uploaded files.

Despite popular misconception, the previous omission of such a feature was not due to a lack of disk space, or policies against it; rather, no-one had make the code changes needed to support this.


 * User:Robchurch/Image undeletion has more.

Additions

 * Uncategorised images special page [Rob Church]
 * magic word [Rob Church]
 * Namespaces which can contain "articles" can now be customised in the site configuration, allowing, e.g. Portals and other custom namespaces to be deemed as content, if desired [Rob Church]
 * magic word available to suppress image galleries in category page views [Magnus Manske]
 * Add indicator to change lists (recent changes, watchlist, etc.) to indicate that a particular edit was caused by a bot [Rob Church]
 * Show timestamp associated with the current revision of a page in diff. views [Brion Vibber]

Alterations

 * MediaWiki:Nogomatch was replaced with MediaWiki:Noexactmatch which contains the escape character in the message itself [Rob Church]
 * The smart auto-comments when creating redirects are also used when editing an existing page to turn it into a redirect [Rob Church]
 * Improved cache updates for pages linking to other pages; speeds up a common operation in MediaWiki [Tim Starling]

Improvements to MediaWiki internationalisation
Mailing List: http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n

Languages updated

 * Allemanic
 * Catalan
 * Czech
 * Dutch Low Saxon
 * German
 * Hebrew
 * Indonesian
 * Russian
 * Slovak