User:Robchurch/Software/29-05-2006
Changes to the MediaWiki software as of 29/05/2006
[edit]This list isn't exhaustive; it lists only things which English Wikipedia users are going to notice. Times, where given, are in UTC.
| Developer | Component | Description |
| Tim Starling | Special:Statistics | Add job queue count to action=raw output |
| Tim Starling | Indexing | Allow customisation of robot policies per-namespace |
| Brion Vibber | Parser | Improve handling of :; construct |
| Brion Vibber | Parser | Fix regression where <gallery> reset <ref> state |
| Brion Vibber | Parser | Fix comments inside <ref> |
| Rob Church | Special:Undelete | Ensure the link to the article on the success page is rendered as existing |
| Brion Vibber | Link tables | Improve handling of large data sets when adding template links updates to the job queue |
| Rob Church | Magic words | Introduce {{#language:}} magic word |
| Rob Church | Page editing | Smart auto edit summaries when creating redirect pages |
| Jens Frank | Page editing | Add "edit based on this version" links to diff. views |
| Brion Vibber | Parser | Update parser strip state better, improves interaction with some extensions |
Sanitiser
[edit]Brion Vibber is also working on vast improvements to the HTML sanitiser used as part of parse operations. This should improve various issues with nested HTML tags, invalid XHTML, extension interaction, and ultimately, will allow us to remove HTML Tidy and fix some horrendous glitches that causes.
Improvements to MediaWiki internationalisation
[edit]Mailing List: http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
Languages updated
[edit]Changes to other code (non-MediaWiki)
[edit]- Brion's been continuing his work on dbzip2, which will be used to improve the dump process. Details can be found at his development blog.