is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
* $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
* $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
-* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
- with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
+* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
+ with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
is not required.
* $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
* Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
whitelist on or off.
* Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
sitenotice cache keys.
+* $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
+* (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
+ write actions using the API.
+* Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
+ ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
+* Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
+ on the wiki. If it's set to true, then the skin used will *always* be
+ $wgDefaultSkin.
+* Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
+ on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
+* Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
+ ForeignAPIRepo)
=== Migrated extensions ===
The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
* Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
* RenderHash
* NoMoveUserPages
-* Special:Nuke to mass delete all pages created by a user
* Poem (patch by Nathaniel Herman)
* UniversalEditButton
* (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
* (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
Special:Statistics
-* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
+* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
-* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
+* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
* Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
image.
restriction types on the protection form.
* (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
* Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
-* Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
+* Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
$wgExternalLinkTarget
* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the maxlag
check fails, just like index.php does
-* Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
+* Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
* (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized namespace
names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of underscores to
match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
-* Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
- default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
+* Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
+ default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
* Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
several uses of the same image.
-* (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
+* (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
wiki is set to read-only mode.
-* Added 'ParserLinkNSCheck' hook in the parser, allowing extensions to catch and handle
- links based on namespace (for instance, to add code to handle [[Tag: Foo]] similarly
- to how [[Category: Foo]] is handled.
-* Added 'EditPageNoPermission' hook to allow special handling/output when a non-editor
- views an edit page.
-
+* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor. This
+ should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page from a watchlist
+ lead to this hook being called (it was previously only called from within Article.php
+* Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
+ $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
+* (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
+ is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
+* Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
+ linked from articles
+* Make search matches bold only, not red as well
+* Added 'UserRights::showEditUserGroupsForm' hook to allow extensions to alter
+ the groups that the user can be added to or removed from in Special:UserRights
+* (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
+* (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is already
+ directly blocked
+* (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using para "watchthis"
+* (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by Nathan Larson.
+* Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
+* (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
+* (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
+* (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
+* Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
+ image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
+ $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
+* New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
+* (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
+* Add class="disambiguationpage" to <body> tag for disambiguations
+* (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the namespace.
+
=== Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
addition to body text.
* Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
-* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
+* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
description pages).
* (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
* (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
* (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
* (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
-* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
- Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
+* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
+ Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
long-lasting locks on that table.
* Respect file restrictions in the file history list
* (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
* (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
* (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
Special:Userlogin. Patch by Marooned.
-* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
+* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
* Special:Recentchangeslinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent pages
even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the database
* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for recentchanges
limit instead of hardcoded 50.
* (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
- instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
+ instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
* (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
* (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
user can only change his rights
* (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
* (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
-* (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
+* (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
+* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now bolded
+ if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
+* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the Konqueror
+ browser correctly use the latter
+* (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
+* (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
+ preferences.
+* (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
+* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia search box
+* (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding new namespace
+* Purge form uses valid XHTML and (bug 8992) uses $wgRequest instead of $_SERVER
+* (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
+* (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback if
+ JavaScript is disabled.
+* (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
+* Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
+* (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
+* (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
+* (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
+ of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
+* Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now produces
+ a warning
+* (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case letters
+* (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
+* (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
+ have corrupt URLs
+* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia search box
+* (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
+ revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
+* (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
+ filename as the remote site.
+* (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
+* Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb path
+ naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
+* (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
+ {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
=== API changes in 1.14 ===
* Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
* action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
-* (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
+* (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
* (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
rather than causing an exception
* (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
* (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
-* (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
+* (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
* The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
* (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
and patrolmarks right
+* (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
+ descending order.
+* (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
+ list=categorymembers
+* (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
+ sortkeys containing pipes
+* (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
+ works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
+* (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
+ output
+* Added redirect resolution to action=parse
+* (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
+ an error
+* (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
+* (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
+* (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
=== Languages updated in 1.14 ===
* Krio (kri) (new)
* Lezghian (lez) (new)
* Laz (lzz) (new)
+* Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
* Niuean (niu) (new)
* Oromo (om) (new)
* Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
+* Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
* Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
* Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
* Tulu (tcy) (new)