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

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and International Operational News

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 {{CURRENTVERSION}} 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