Localisation updates for special page aliases from translatewiki.net

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@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   similarly to the category namespace.
 * $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
   backward compatibility)
   similarly to the category namespace.
 * $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
   backward compatibility)

-* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not 
-  exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to 
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+  exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to

   it as appropriate.
 * If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
   signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
   it as appropriate.
 * If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
   signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php

-  but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used 
+  but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used

   by default.
 * Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
   If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
   by default.
 * Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
   If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions


@@ -94,7 +94,12 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
   neither) MediaWiki advertises.  Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
   longer advertised by default (but it still works).
 * Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
   neither) MediaWiki advertises.  Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
   longer advertised by default (but it still works).

-
+* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
+  memcached servers.
+* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
+  for controlling debug output.
+* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
+  logging in.

 
 === New features in 1.16 ===
 
 
 === New features in 1.16 ===
 


@@ -294,21 +299,34 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
 * (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
 * (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
 * (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
 * (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
 * (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories

-* Added $wgFixArchaicUnicode, which, if enabled, converts some deprecated
-  Unicode sequences in Arabic and Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
+* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
+  Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
+  convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1

   equivalents.
 * (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
   stops normal output
 * Send new password e-mail in users preference language
 * LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
   "-{-{}-}-"
   equivalents.
 * (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
   stops normal output
 * Send new password e-mail in users preference language
 * LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
   "-{-{}-}-"

-* (bug 16281) Show copyright system message on special pages

 * Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
 * (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
 * (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
   restrict/expand it.
 * (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
   article
 * Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
 * (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
 * (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
   restrict/expand it.
 * (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
   article

+* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
+  the return value
+* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
+  maintenance/tests/.
+* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and 
+comment from another wiki.
+* (bug 845)   [[#foo|]], [[/bar|]] should be equivalent to [[#foo|foo]],
+  [[/bar|bar]] (new use of "pipe trick")
+* (bug 21660) Support full-width commas for pipe trick
+* (bug 7264)  Magic word to give Page Title as if pipe-trick performed on it
+  {{pipetrick:}}
+* (bug 20339) Allow using the pipe trick in log reasons
+* Support for Turck MMCache was removed

 
 === Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
 
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
 


@@ -662,7 +680,9 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
 * (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
   even to non-logged in users
 * (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
 * (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
   even to non-logged in users

-* (bug 21551) Make Squid reponse limit configurable
+* (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
+  general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
+  Varnish.

 * Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
   instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
 * (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
 * Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
   instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
 * (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters


@@ -675,10 +695,10 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
 * (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
   "unknown error"
   only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
 * (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
   "unknown error"

-* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if 
+* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if

   redirects-only switch is not present
 * (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
   redirects-only switch is not present
 * (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch

-* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever, 
+* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,

   due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
 * (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
   the page selector when they have only one page
   due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
 * (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
   the page selector when they have only one page


@@ -710,18 +730,37 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
   user's page if possible
 * (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
 * (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
   user's page if possible
 * (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins

-* (bug 18765) Increased consistency of bold-italic markup for unbalanced quotes.
-  Improved representation of six quotes (may break existing markup).

 * (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
   reimplementing it.
 * (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
 * (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
   skin-specific JS pages
 * (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
   reimplementing it.
 * (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
 * (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
   skin-specific JS pages

-* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes 
+* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes

   for image divs.
   for image divs.

-* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook 
+* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook

   and Chick skins
 * Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
   and Chick skins
 * Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter

+* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
+* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
+* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
+* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
+  not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
+* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
+  that can only change their rights
+* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
+* (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
+  link from file pages
+* Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
+  $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
+  as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
+  was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
+* (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
+* (bug 5210)  preload parser should parse <noinclude> (as well as <includeonly>)
+* (bug 8785)  Pipe trick should work with colon functions 
+* (bug 4099)  Pipe trick doesn't work when emptiness is only provided by empty
+  template parameter
+* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
+  multibyte characters

 
 == API changes in 1.16 ==
 
 
 == API changes in 1.16 ==
 


@@ -792,10 +831,22 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
   for logged-in users under certain circumstances
 * (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
 * (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
   for logged-in users under certain circumstances
 * (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML

-* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and 
-  descriptionurl 
+* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
+  descriptionurl

 * (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
 * (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
 * (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
 * (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse

+* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
+* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
+* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
+* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
+* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
+* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
+* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
+* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
+* (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
+* (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo

 
 === Languages updated in 1.16 ===
 
 
 === Languages updated in 1.16 ===
 


@@ -814,6 +865,7 @@ changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
 * Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
 * Picard (pcd) (new)
 * Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
 * Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
 * Picard (pcd) (new)
 * Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)

+* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)

 * Votic (vot) (new)
 * Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
 * Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
 * Votic (vot) (new)
 * Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
 * Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)


@@ -822,6 +874,7 @@ changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
 * Palembang (plm) (removed)
 * Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
 * Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
 * Palembang (plm) (removed)
 * Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
 * Tamazight (tzm) (removed)

+* Laz (lzz) (new)

 
 * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
 * Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
 
 * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
 * Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)


@@ -843,11 +896,7 @@ changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
 
 == Compatibility ==
 
 
 == Compatibility ==
 

-MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
-
-PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
-http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
-Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
+MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.

 
 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 
 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.