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

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 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