HRWiki:Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.6
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Revision as of 22:38, 24 January 2011 by Soiled Bargains (Talk | contribs)
[edit] What's new in 1.6
User interface:
- The account creation form has been separated from the user login form.
- Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form
- The user preferences have been redesigned.
Templates:
- Categories and "what links here" now update as expected when adding or removing links in a template.
- Template parameters can now have default values, as {{{name|default value}}}
Uploads:
- Optional support for rasterizing SVG images to PNG for inline display
Feeds:
- Feed generation upgraded to Atom 1.0
- Diffs in RSS and Atom feeds are now colored for improved readability.
Database:
- MySQL 3.23.x support dropped; 4.0 or later required
- Experimental support for Unicode mode of MySQL 4.1/5.0 (moderately tested)
- Experimental Oracle support (not well tested!)
Anti-spam extension support:
- SpamBlacklist extension now has support for automated cleanup.
- Support for a captcha extension to restrict automated spam edits.
New special pages:
- Special:Mostcategories - Articles with the most categories
- Special:Mostrevisions - Articles with the most revisions (edits)
- Special:Listredirects - A list of redirects
- Special:MIMEsearch - Search uploaded files by MIME type
- Special:Mostlinkedcategories - Most used categories
- Special:Mostimages - Most used images
- Special:Prefixindex - A simplified version of Special:Allpages
- Special:Wantedcategories - Categories that are used but don't exist
- Special:Unwatchedpages - (sysop only) Pages that don't have anybody watching them.
Numerous bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes changes have been made.
