HRWiki:Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.6

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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 {{{name|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:

Special:Mostcategories - Articles with the most categories
Special:Mostrevisions - Articles with the most revisions (edits)
Special:Listredirects - A list of redirects
Special:MIMEsearch - Search uploaded files by MIME type
Special:Mostlinkedcategories - Most used categories
Special:Mostimages - Most used images
Special:Prefixindex - A simplified version of Special:Allpages
Special:Wantedcategories - Categories that are used but don't exist
Special:Unwatchedpages - (sysop only) Pages that don't have anybody watching them.

Numerous bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes changes have been made.

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