User:Robchurch/Software/29-05-2006

Changes to the MediaWiki software as of 29/05/2006
This list isn't exhaustive; it lists only things which English Wikipedia users are going to notice. Times, where given, are in UTC.

construct Brion Vibber Parser Fix regression where  reset   state Brion Vibber Parser Fix comments inside Rob Church Special:Undelete Ensure the link to the article on the success page is rendered as existing Brion Vibber Link tables Improve handling of large data sets when adding template links updates to the job queue Rob Church Magic words Introduce  magic word Rob Church Page editing Smart auto edit summaries when creating redirect pages Jens Frank Page editing Add "edit based on this version" links to diff. views Brion Vibber Parser Update parser strip state better, improves interaction with some extensions

Sanitiser
Brion Vibber is also working on vast improvements to the HTML sanitiser used as part of parse operations. This should improve various issues with nested HTML tags, invalid XHTML, extension interaction, and ultimately, will allow us to remove HTML Tidy and fix some horrendous glitches that causes.

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

Languages updated

 * Catalan
 * Finnish
 * Hebrew
 * Indonesian
 * Italian
 * Japanese
 * Kashubian
 * Polish
 * Walloon

Changes to other code (non-MediaWiki)

 * Brion's been continuing his work on dbzip2, which will be used to improve the dump process. Details can be found at his development blog.