User:Robchurch/Software/08-05-2006

Changes to the MediaWiki software as of 08/05/2006

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This list isn't exhaustive; it lists only things which English Wikipedia users are going to notice. Times, where given, are in UTC.

Date & Time Developer Component Description
09:45 15/05/2006 Brion Vibber Special pages Add extra input checking and validation when setting preferences and fix injection vectors
18:04 14/05/2006 Niklas Laxström User interface Convert some special pages to use {{plural:}} instead of having multiple messages
17:11 14/05/2006 Rob Church Special pages Respect stub link colouring in Special:Wantedpages
16:41 14/05/2006 Rob Church User interface Disable section editing links for users who can't edit (due to permissions, not blocks)
03:51 14/05/2006 Rob Church Parser Introduce {{BASEPAGENAME}} and {{BASEPAGENAMEE}} magic words
03:13 14/05/2006 Rob Church Parser Register links from gallery captions so the link tables contain those entries
19:29 13/05/2006 Ashar Voultoiz Parser Link autonumbering fixed for all recognised protocols
17:32 13/05/2006 Rob Church Parser Introduce {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} and {{CURRENTVERSION}} magic words
17:30 13/05/2006 Rob Church Special pages Allow throttling password reminder requests with the rate limiter
16:45 13/05/2006 Rob Church Special pages Ignore user and user talk namespaces in Special:Wantedpages
16:42 12/05/2006 Rob Church Interface Support wiki text in filewasdeleted

Improvements to MediaWiki internationalisation

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Mailing List: http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n

Languages updated

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Changes to other code (non-MediaWiki)

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Brion Vibber made some behind-the-scenes improvements to the dump process which should make it more robust and almost "self-correcting".