User:Robchurch/Software/08-05-2006

[edit] Changes to the MediaWiki software as of 08/05/2006

This list isn't exhaustive; it lists only things which English Wikipedia users are going to notice. Times, where given, are in UTC.

Date & Time	Developer	Component	Description
09:45 15/05/2006	Brion Vibber	Special pages	Add extra input checking and validation when setting preferences and fix injection vectors
18:04 14/05/2006	Niklas Laxström	User interface	Convert some special pages to use `{{plural:}}` instead of having multiple messages
17:11 14/05/2006	Rob Church	Special pages	Respect stub link colouring in Special:Wantedpages
~~16:41 14/05/2006~~	~~Rob Church~~	~~User interface~~	~~Disable section editing links for users who can't edit (due to permissions, not blocks)~~
03:51 14/05/2006	Rob Church	Parser	Introduce `{{BASEPAGENAME}}` and `{{BASEPAGENAMEE}}` magic words
03:13 14/05/2006	Rob Church	Parser	Register links from gallery captions so the link tables contain those entries
19:29 13/05/2006	Ashar Voultoiz	Parser	Link autonumbering fixed for all recognised protocols
17:32 13/05/2006	Rob Church	Parser	Introduce `{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}` and `{{CURRENTVERSION}}` magic words
17:30 13/05/2006	Rob Church	Special pages	Allow throttling password reminder requests with the rate limiter
16:45 13/05/2006	Rob Church	Special pages	Ignore user and user talk namespaces in Special:Wantedpages
16:42 12/05/2006	Rob Church	Interface	Support wiki text in filewasdeleted

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Brion Vibber made some behind-the-scenes improvements to the dump process which should make it more robust and almost "self-correcting".