Help:Practice Area/Mediawiki Changes
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Nice new features
- Namespace filtering on Special:Newpages This will let us display all the new PSs, or all the new revision notes
- Add watchlist clear function to allow quick purging of all items
- Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit.
- <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates
- Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously deleted
- Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter will let us have "Get Lucky" type links for just revision notes, recipies, etc
- Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics.
- Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history If you're keen on a particular page and know about RSS feeds, I think this should let you keep track of its edits in an RSS reader
- Add links to edit old versions to diff views
- Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page
- Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics.
- Link to page histories in Special:Newpages
- Link to page-specific logs on page histories
- Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username
- Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions
- Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update default message text
- Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL (if we want to use this, we'll have to ask for it to be activated)
- (Move section links down visually to same level as headings (editsection links are now inside the heading elements)
- Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits.
- Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in Monobook we don't use Monobook, but we should poss talk to J about getting this added to our TSR skin?
- When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version.
- Provide rollback link directly on history page.
- "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits.
- "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages.
- Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via JavaScript.
- "revision patching" functionality added, where an edit can be undone (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3). This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages. The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the edit.
- Added redirect to section feature
- Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions
- Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage')
- Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference
- Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist and support watching pages on move
- Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
- Article size in history
- Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
- Warning on upload of scaled down images
- Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase extension exists
- Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
- AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and enabled by default.
- Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions, removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents
- Show "undo" links in page histories
- Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions
- Show edit count in user preferences
Loosely WST stuff
- Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark changes as patrolled using the diff links there
- Show page protection/unprotection events in histories
- Allow customisation of separator for categories
- Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface"), and also when editing it
- Allow comments when undeleting pages
- Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via pagecategorieslink message.
- Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as patrolled automatically. Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able to mark their own edits as patrolled
- Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights
- View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
- Log revisions marked as patrolled
- Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to Special:Statistics
- Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with the appropriate permission
- New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or "semi protected"
- Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite, as are protections made with the new field left blank
- Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new argument is supplied
- "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages
- Add a message if category is empty
- Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections
New magc words
Magic words are words which, when placed in a wiki page, will be replaced with a piece of information
- DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup rejects titles which don't normalise to the same title as the current page, and enabled per default
- PAGESINNAMESPACE
- TALKSPACE
- SUBJECTSPACE
- TALKPAGENAME
- SUBJECTPAGENAME
- NUMBEROFPAGES
New special pages
- Special:Unusedtemplates
- Special:Wantedcategories
- Special:Mostlinkedcategories
- Special:Uncategorizedimages
- Most viewed pages summary added to Special:Statistics
- Link from Special:log/block to unblock for, from Special:log/delete to undelete form, from Special:log/protect to change protection form
- Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
- Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
- Username entry field added to Special:Contributions
- Special:Uncategorizedtemplates
Things that have changed that might break stuff/confuse us
- "bureaucrat log" changed to "rights log"
- Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a Table Of Contents
- Magic word variables are always case sensitive
- Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options
I don't know why we'd want to do this, but if this was your deepest wiki desire, we now can...
- Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag
- Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags.
- Transcluding the same special page twice now works
- For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg = when making URLs for template parameters.
- Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to show up on specific pages on demand
- Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}} will produce a count minus formatting
Magic words
- CONTENTLANGUAGE
- CURRENTVERSION
- BASEPAGENAME
- BASEPAGENAMEE
- CURRENTTIMESTAMP
- REVISIONDAY
- REVISIONDAY2
- REVISIONMONTH
- REVISIONYEAR
- REVISIONTIMESTAMP
- CURRENTHOUR
- NUMBEROFEDITS
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