HRWiki Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.6
What's new in 1.6
User interface:
- The account creation form has been separated from the user login form.
- Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form
- The user preferences have been redesigned.
Templates:
- Categories and "what links here" now update as expected when adding or removing links in a template.
- Template parameters can now have default values, as default value
Uploads:
- Optional support for rasterizing SVG images to PNG for inline display
Feeds:
- Feed generation upgraded to Atom 1.0
- Diffs in RSS and Atom feeds are now colored for improved readability.
Database:
- MySQL 3.23.x support dropped; 4.0 or later required
- Experimental support for Unicode mode of MySQL 4.1/5.0 (moderately tested)
- Experimental Oracle support (not well tested!)
Anti-spam extension support:
- SpamBlacklist extension now has support for automated cleanup.
- Support for a captcha extension to restrict automated spam edits.
New special pages:
- [/wiki/Special:MostCategories Special:Mostcategories] - Articles with the most categories
- [/wiki/Special:MostRevisions Special:Mostrevisions] - Articles with the most revisions (edits)
- [/wiki/Special:ListRedirects Special:Listredirects] - A list of redirects
- [/wiki/Special:MIMESearch Special:MIMEsearch] - Search uploaded files by MIME type
- [/wiki/Special:MostLinkedCategories Special:Mostlinkedcategories] - Most used categories
- [/wiki/Special:MostLinkedFiles Special:Mostimages] - Most used images
- [/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex Special:Prefixindex] - A simplified version of [/wiki/Special:AllPages Special:Allpages]
- [/wiki/Special:WantedCategories Special:Wantedcategories] - Categories that are used but don't exist
- [/wiki/Special:UnwatchedPages Special:Unwatchedpages] - (sysop only) Pages that don't have anybody watching them.
Numerous bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes changes have been made.