s being
interspersed into your ordered lists.
@@ -5472,7 +6060,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php
* (bug 3837) Leave
as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement
to .
is perfectly valid in the target doctype
(XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and
- could even result in invalid output from valid input.
+ could even result in invalid output from valid input.
* (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default
meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of
robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt
@@ -5533,7 +6121,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php
in StreamFile
* (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages
* Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display
-* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
+* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
* (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account
* (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links
* Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
@@ -5715,7 +6303,7 @@ Database:
* Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
* Removed read-only check from Database::query()
* Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
-* Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is
+* Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is
to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
* Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
@@ -5777,7 +6365,7 @@ Installer:
* Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
* (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
patch by Rob Church
-* Improve installer
+* Improve installer
* Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
* Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
permissions, if said user exists
@@ -5788,7 +6376,7 @@ Installer:
Maintenance:
* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert
duplicate rows with the same id field)
-* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
+* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
different LocalSettings.php.
* Maintenance script to delete unused text records
* Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
@@ -5948,7 +6536,7 @@ Parser:
* (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
* (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables
* (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish
-* Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}}
+* Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}}
etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks.
Upload:
@@ -5986,7 +6574,7 @@ Security:
* Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure
* (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures
* Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit
-* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
+* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
which are not of known image types. This is in response to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
@@ -6003,7 +6591,7 @@ Special Pages:
* (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
* (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
-* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting
+* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting
$wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
* Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
* (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
@@ -6211,12 +6799,12 @@ fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
* (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links)
* $wgParserCacheExpireTime added
* Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed
-* Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source
+* Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source
size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
* Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
* Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
* Improve "upload disabled" notice
-* Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php
+* Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php
and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
* (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
HTML on final output (cached or not)
@@ -6359,7 +6947,7 @@ fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
would be generated smaller than expected.
* (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights
* Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
-* (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment
+* (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment
with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
* (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
* (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
@@ -6433,13 +7021,13 @@ March 2, 2006
MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release.
-Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug
-affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root
-password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the
-installer would not only create the new account but also change the root
-password to be equal to the password of the new account.
+Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug
+affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root
+password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the
+installer would not only create the new account but also change the root
+password to be equal to the password of the new account.
-Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back
+Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back
manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html
@@ -6600,7 +7188,7 @@ Schema:
The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
-
+
Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
@@ -6622,13 +7210,13 @@ Editing diff:
Uploads:
It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
from the original filename on your disk.
-
+
An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
-
+
More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
-
+
If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render
them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several
external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options.
@@ -6637,13 +7225,13 @@ User accounts:
There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only
accessible to certain groups.
-
+
For details see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights
E-mail:
User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
-
+
Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
notifications.
@@ -6661,12 +7249,12 @@ Latin-1:
Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
This is no longer supported.
-
+
You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's
"view source"; look for a line like this:
-
+
-
+
If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1,
you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding
any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.)
@@ -6674,7 +7262,7 @@ Latin-1:
MySQL 3.x:
Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields).
-
+
MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should
very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support
will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release.
@@ -6694,7 +7282,7 @@ Upgrade:
old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate
this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php.
-
+
The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so
it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations.
@@ -6703,7 +7291,7 @@ Backups:
text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available
as maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
-
+
For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia,
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
@@ -7017,7 +7605,7 @@ Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
* (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
* (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1
when the default charset is set to utf8
-* (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
+* (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
$wgEmailAuthentication is false.
* (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
when a template with a gallery was used.
@@ -7197,7 +7785,7 @@ of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
== Changes since 1.5beta2 ==
* Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions
-* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work
+* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work
* (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt
* (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization
* Fixed number formatting for Dutch
@@ -7462,34 +8050,34 @@ of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
=== Changes since 1.5.4 ===
* Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
-* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
+* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
which are not of known image types. This is in response to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
=== Changes since 1.5.5 ===
-* (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"
+* (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"
should be set
* (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
* (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
-* Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of
- establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor
+* Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of
+ establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor
changes to installer.
-* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work
+* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work
(can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
* (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
* Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
* Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
* Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
* Removed read-only check from Database::query()
-* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
+* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
different LocalSettings.php.
=== Changes since 1.5.6 ===
* Default main page content improved per bug 4690
-* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
+* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
* Fixed Special:Unlockdb
* Maintenance script to delete unused text records
* Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
@@ -7839,7 +8427,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
* (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode
* Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table
* Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables
-* Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through
+* Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through
Mediawiki:zhconversiontable
* Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list
* Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A
@@ -7862,7 +8450,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
* (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a
* Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin
* Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google)
-* Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected
+* Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected
variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now.
=== Beta 5 fixes ===
@@ -7898,7 +8486,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
* Memcached data compression fixes
* Several valid XHTML fixes
* (bug 624) Fix IE freezing rendering whilst waiting for CSS with MonoBook
-* (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type
+* (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type
* Fix for script execution vulnerability.
=== Beta 6 fixes ===
@@ -7934,7 +8522,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
* (bug 1368) Fix SQL error on stopword/short word search w/ MySQL 3.x
* Translated Hebrew namespace names
* (bug 1429) Stop double-escaping of block comments; fix formatting
-* (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success
+* (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success
* (bug 1228) Fix double-escaping on & sequences in [enclosed] URLs
* (bug 1435) Fixed many CSS errors
* (bug 1457) Fix XHTML validation on category column list
@@ -7968,7 +8556,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
* convertLinks script fixes
* Corrections to template loop detection
* XHTML encoding fix for usernames containing & in Special:Emailuser
-* (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off,
+* (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off,
to help prevent duplicate articles.
* Disallow ISO 8859-1 C1 characters and "no-break space" in user names
on Latin-1 wikis.
@@ -8012,7 +8600,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin
* (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for
'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', 'si',
- 'ti', 've'
+ 'ti', 've'
* Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to Esperanto
* Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk default to zh-tw
* Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled
@@ -8081,7 +8669,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
* (bug 1963) Fix deletion log link when $wgCapitalLinks is off
* (bug 1970) Don't show move tab for immobile pages
* (bug 1770) Page creation recorded links from the 'newarticletext' message
-* Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need
+* Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need
for expensive queries in Special:Statistics.