MediaWiki 1.23/wmf4

Deployment of MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 to Wikimedia sites

The latest version (labeled "1.23wmf4") of MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia and its sister sites, is being deployed to all Wikimedia sites in stages, starting on Thursday, 14 November 2013 (see the roadmap).

Important Changes edit

git #3eff7862 - In Special:AllPages, limit the size of hierarchical lists (bug 56840)
git #5f078d3e - Add rc.unpatrolled to the recentchanges API

Core changes edit

git #dfd44f14 - Update Cirrus again
git #94ce42aa - Updated zero
git #c9277cf6 - resourceloader: Make sure hashmtime cache key is different by language
git #97fd627e - Update VisualEditor to wmf4 branch for cherry-pick
git #f81a19b4 - [1.23wmf4] Translate to wmf/wmf1.23wmf4 branch
git #21def88a - Update VisualEditor to wmf4 branch for cherry-pick
git #d72d5494 - Update MobileFrontend to wmf4 tip
git #24cda62e - Updated zero ext
git #21e66e94 - Avoid extra parsing in prepareContentForEdit() (bug 57026)
git #006756d5 - Update UploadWizard
git #00cf5b69 - Revert "Suppress section edit links with action=render"
git #d635de48 - Update MobileFrontend for I3efc1fa64
git #5714ea3d - Updated Zero
git #96d4bf51 - Update WikimediaEvents to I5b8cfe592
git #5449852f - Add VectorBeta
git #67e7a4dc - Enable module storage for 0.05% of visitors w/storage-capable browsers (bug 56397)
git #1fda8ad8 - Commit of various wmf-branch live hacks
git #fe05f85a - Update formatting on API classes
git #0d5e6205 - Fix optional message key
git #465480ce - mediawiki.ui: Fix spacing for LESS
git #6ea188fe - Update formatting
git #995e6679 - Declare visibility for class properties
git #eb9cc2b9 - Port mediawiki.ui SASS to LESS (bug 54485)
git #354be956 - Skip IP::isInRange() test if input is not in CIDR notation (bug 52829)
git #36693f7d - Made cleanupUploadStash use batching for the last two loops
git #c5eae531 - mw.util.addPortletLink: Check length before access array index (bug 56770)
git #8af281f5 - Remove extra space
git #b89355c2 - Short circuit $wgSquidServersNoPurge iteration if ip is specifically
git #631156fc - installer: shows status message on DB connection error
git #8b4ee2bb - Fix false positive in findHooks.php
git #c2c5b4e6 - Fix one more profiling error from I0a9a7f10ea (f5a0c23)
git #df8317fe - Standardize spacing
git #9d5ce74e - Add GetLogTypesOnUser hook
git #3eff7862 - In Special:AllPages, limit the size of hierarchical lists (bug 56840)
git #30d115c4 - Avoid HEAD requests for files missing from the destination
git #9c862487 - Removed sanity regex since there are too many random formats to track
git #f8d27483 - Fix location of variable initialization
git #5d84d4da - Expand release notes for Iab02cbd4
git #fbf0c812 - Rather than upsert module store, explicitly remove old value and then add new one
git #fb04b4a3 - Use correct case for SpecialRecentChanges class in SpecialPageFactory::$mList
git #ba932a32 - Use country neutral "national identification number" (bug 56655)
git #d5aac9f6 - Change interlanguage link title message key (bug 56129)
git #0925e2e8 - Fix WikitextContentHandlerTest::testMakeRedirectContent() when content language is not english
git #0dd1a446 - thumb.php: map b/c params prior to attempting redirection (bug 56924)
git #16f80977 - Make 'quotation-marks' message non-optional
git #fe4f6568 - DatabaseBase: Fix version number in deprecation notice
git #65bb689f - Do not escape title attribute twice for tooltip-iwiki (bug 55847)
git #b1ab14c2 - Increase LanguageConverter cache version (bug 56911)
git #60fa0e1c - Revert "DifferenceEngine cleanup"
git #837bde03 - Exclude non-standard global $checkBlacklist in CodeSniffer checks
git #f962c5db - Use suppress/restoreWarnings()
git #fcddaf3e - Use capital as first letter for class names
git #bd369984 - Use capital for classes Languages and ExtensionLanguages
git #c6f256a8 - Break long lines
git #a4c34030 - Update formatting in messages.inc
git #7abb017a - Update formatting
git #571567a8 - Fix release notes formatting
git #fcd6ef61 - Fix profiling error from I0a9a7f10ea (f5a0c23)
git #33bec07a - New hook 'LocalisationChecksBlacklist' to allow to extend the localisation checks blacklist
git #11fb421c - Add content model to the page information (bug 56033)
git #3cc242ad - Revert "Add a hook to validate account creation fields."
git #a9dc4d94 - BacklinkCache performance tweaks
git #cc1006b7 - Add a hook to validate account creation fields.
git #df869cd6 - Sync RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 between master and REL1_22
git #ecc5e200 - Remove duplicate entries in messages.inc
git #519883bd - Fixed loading of stat cache entries into the wrong key
git #f5a0c232 - Create prepareQuickTemplate function
git #a01c3c6a - Update docs in CdbPHP.php
git #db7d95de - Don't use wfIsWindows() in CDB writers
git #03c56055 - Clean up CDB classes
git #22480219 - Suppress section edit links with action=render (bug 19415)
git #3d7023e7 - Give the search page a little UI love
git #77af65b9 - SpecialWatchlist: Minor cleanup
git #1f423cc6 - DifferenceEngine cleanup
git #665914d1 - SpecialRecentChanges: Remove '@todo Uses radio buttons (HASHAR)'
git #9aeede92 - Adding a quotation marks message to core.
git #8d266860 - Clarify thumbnail log failure entries when the local file copy failed
git #4101ab54 - Cleanup watchlist preference usage (bug 56766)
git #a55e363f - Anons should not be able to use the change e-mail form at all
git #4d230886 - Correct tooltip of "Next n results" on query special pages. (bug 56707)
git #8eda0374 - Let mw.util.addCSS also return a CSSStyleSheet in IE8
git #9f1163ed - Improve variable naming in EnhancedChangesList
git #ac2b9d7b - Allow ParserLimitReportFormat to change $value
git #52e54664 - Work around HHVM bug with stdin/stdout in proc_open() (bug 56597)
git #2afdc066 - filebackend: improved "adviseStat" performance
git #c674d4c9 - Speed up thumbnail purging a bit for stash script
git #9a61734f - FormOptions: Implement FLOAT type
git #47b6592f - wikibits: Add some missing deprecation messages
git #e304842f - Set visibility for class property of RegexlikeReplacer
git #e58e2c12 - Set visibility on class properties of ExplodeIterator
git #26ebff9f - Set visibility on class properties of ReplacementArray
git #14de7769 - Set visibility of class properties of HashtableReplacer
git #3328266e - Declare visibility on class properties
git #192639e0 - Declare visibility on class property
git #7a95d479 - Address some PHP CodeSniffer errors and warnings
git #45de3c80 - Remove underscore from CdbReader_[DBA|PHP] classes and related file
git #f111b268 - Support CIDR ranges in $wgSquidServersNoPurge (bug 52829)
git #f36f4938 - Add convenience maintenance script wrapper
git #9e8c4705 - Use anon-specific text in Article::showMissingArticle
git #6d223464 - Declare visibility on Autoloader::$autoloadLocalClassesLower
git #af4ef815 - Migrate usage of wikibits in legacy protect.js and upload.js (bug 56726)
git #00ba1c54 - Add close elements through code
git #3962697c - Break long lines
git #8ba4964f - Move files with tests to reflect the code
git #1db6a592 - Fix call to function applyPatch in MysqlUpdater
git #35970fb4 - Rename mw.util.wikiGetlink to getUrl (bug 55764)
git #4ba5a09d - Remove deprecated ChangesList::newFromUser function
git #58a0e0c0 - Cleaned up DatabaseBase constructor to use an array
git #54664be1 - Cleanups to DB transaction handling
git #fa0f56f9 - Remove stupid one-cell table
git #651c4314 - DifferenceEngine minor fixes
git #c37b4dc9 - Refactor diffs
git #1fc831c2 - Expose iw_trans in siteinfo API interwikimap prop
git #5f078d3e - Add rc.unpatrolled to the recentchanges API
git #96a3d3a6 - Added --sleep-per-batch to purgeChangedFiles.php
git #0cdd9bb9 - xml dump maintenance scripts should use the 'dump' db group

Extensions edit

AbuseFilter edit

git #6204b765 - Fix Call to undefined method TableDiffFormatterFullContext::_start_diff() (bug 57268)

BetaFeatures edit

git #55cb58f0 - Use existing global function for inserting personal link
git #83575591 - Rephrase mw-ui-feature-requirements-skins

CentralNotice edit

git #7c826397 - Do not mobilify hide links

CirrusSearch edit

git #d3f8c149 - Use a more efficient query for batch indexing
git #c8a071f5 - Make incategory: and intitle: negatable (bug 56788)
git #d603c5ed - Switch search methods to always return status (bug 57961)
git #d721e5db - Clean up test documentation
git #6b004781 - Fix error in prefer-recent: test
git #1e0d7de1 - Don't spawn to update links if there aren't any (bug 57900)
git #702a3bfe - fix formatting typo
git #ffef180a - Restore log10 boost for link counts
git #5f773370 - Prefer double-quoted strings in Ruby code (bug 57597)
git #6531dbd3 - Count links from Elasticsearch instead of db (bug 56798)
git #3a91fcaa - Remove workaround for fixed upstream wildcard bug (bug 54641)
git #64904dc5 - Limit job queue rate and wait for completion
git #d2644c8f - Make sure all microtime calls return floats
git #502e83de - Perform Elasticsearch updates with queued jobs (bug 57316, bug 53724)
git #78e734f1 - Add timeouts to updates and better log failures (bug 57215)
git #b5b5fffe - Don't use pool counter when running maintenance scripts (bug 57068)
git #bba95ddc - Tighter error handling in updateSearchIndex (bug 57250)
git #4b960887 - Switch shard startup monitoring using health api (bug 57247)
git #8c7a77a4 - Allow enabling as default with a BetaFeature
git #f050476c - Description for new message key. (bug 57024)
git #c96c430c - Fix double-space
git #691098d6 - Allow users prefer articles with recent changes (bug 56690)

Collection edit

git #6a960fb3 - Merge i18n files, step 1
git #b3a5b2f7 - Remove template blacklisting functionality
git #5b6af6e4 - Honor $wgExtensionAssetsPath
git #6c25979c - Remove insane version check

Echo edit

git #f2c876c4 - Disable DatabaseBase constructor
git #c1f022ec - Remove exclusive module group to reduce HTTP request fragmentation
git #18cf0985 - Avoid PHP warning in strripos() (bug 56586)
git #be1cbc4e - ext.echo.overlay: Unbreak removal logic

EducationProgram edit

git #af3aa151 - Update _DiffOp to DiffOp following rename in core (bug 57380)
git #7de08c49 - Fix grammar of "needs to be at least contain"
git #00a65d4f - i18n: use "int:" for consistency
git #01e6d364 - De-lint JavaScript sources.
git #2a44d704 - Fix spelling of 'addition' in code and messages.
git #afa63f5f - Remove Settings::newFromGlobals (fixed version)
git #7984f39e - Revert "Remove Settings::newFromGlobals"
git #e8ef2955 - Whitespace fixes: adhere to PHP code conventions.
git #08c6423f - Update INSTALL: this extension no longer uses SVN.
git #9dabf46a - Fix student name in dialogue for removing article
git #854092a2 - Fix CourseStoreTest after change to DatabaseBase
git #ce2fc9df - Remove Settings::newFromGlobals
git #cb05c608 - Increase limits to Special:MyCourses activity feeds

Elastica edit

git #c4c8dfd6 - Let client code set the client side timeout (bug 57215)
git #3b4f6f3a - Only retry on connection errors (bug 57215)

FlaggedRevs edit

git #abceea4a - Avoid silly double-parse on edit bug
git #a98f73f7 - Removed unused expandText() method

MobileFrontend edit

git #4ed14cc9 - Strengthen .tutorial selector (bug 57192)
git #1bd33d40 - Fix fatal
git #25173d63 - Disable MobileWebInfobox's attemptLogEvent
git #85c5ede2 - QA: Attempt to get around bogus failure to type password
git #6a7c82be - Center heading on Special:Userlogin and friends (bug 56024)
git #c5382625 - Nearby pages: Don't change the background when open
git #7daacd6f - Beta desktop feature: Nearby pages
git #d3a1973b - i18n: Fix menu in RTL mode (bug 56390)
git #b09d538d - Story 1218: Allow users to modify their UserProfile intro
git #286aaf3d - Check Thank extension exists before rendering section on profile (bug 56825)
git #ae3c5a84 - Hygiene: Address toggle fix me
git #954dd442 - Hygiene: Remove userprofile.js
git #62b9cb73 - Story 1312 Card 1312: Style UserProfile page
git #e91c0901 - Modernize the toggle tests
git #ed7df81a - Fix mode for qunit tests on non-english wikis
git #a48c85c3 - Hygiene: Remove autoless from Node.js dependencies
git #2935d1ab - Don't throw fatals for non-existant usernames (bug 56822)
git #8e3db350 - Hygiene: Separate overlay code from mobile.stable.common
git #80eb834f - Avoid fatals in Special:History without parameter
git #d6f30b2c - Add a note for SpecialWatchlistQuery hook usage for Iec4aab87 in core
git #35cd6e0e - Added GENDER support to mobile-frontend-profile-last-edit
git #2ce4138d - Unbreak token fetching for anonymous users (bug 56831)
git #c3939263 - Hygiene: Make hook code readable
git #5d7a97f8 - Update progressive action button in new overlays
git #0571cb97 - Fix confirmation on upload cancel [beta]
git #4758e127 - Hygiene: Address todo in SkinMobileBeta
git #a31cc62f - Make textarea in photo uploads autoresize
git #b695d751 - Story 1289: Promote image viewer overlay to beta
git #a5242bda - Regression: Revert Special:Search and friends styling to not show footer/header
git #d003ce39 - text and target for 'Terms of use' link changed
git #c4cdd13a - Hygiene: Use getUrl rather than wikiGetlink
git #ad26e52c - Upstream: Mobile skin code to Minerva skin code
git #234c3224 - Hygiene: Remove unused template variable in SkinMobile
git #45872043 - Hygiene: Fix upstream skin mobile to skin minerva fail...

MultimediaViewer edit

git #f6e4ba2b - Don't interfere with middle click (bug 56905)

OAuth edit

git #f0a49880 - Include implicit rights in UserIsEveryoneAllowed (bug 56975)
git #c60ca39b - Enforce that all consumers have basic rights
git #0b41689d - Corrected message spelling
git #9c8f179e - Put application name in quotes
git #a78d71bb - Removing parentheses
git #5b0264a2 - Update Gender (bug 55680)
git #a2278163 - Improve user-facing error messages (bug 56492)
git #3464b8d0 - Update i18n from TWN comments (bug 55680)
git #2d60c9ce - Add hook to override message (bug 55704)
git #72d4d059 - Reuse more understandable message (bug 55711)

Parsoid edit

git #897504ca - Treat WikiLink/Category like PageProp/Category while serializing
git #81b11de8 - Fixed bug serialization template args containing " : " (bug 56733)
git #5e31c110 - Update AccessDeniedError message to reflect private wiki support
git #2f7e8bb4 - Default initial MW page is Main Page (capitalized P)
git #923c7910 - Improved dom-diff to deal with data-mw by recursing into object
git #b3c09646 - Fixed unhandled scenarios in the wikitext escaping <td> handler (bug 56918)
git #d55cb97f - Fix parsing of image captions containing embedded image options. (bug 53312)
git #bcc677d8 - Fix css decoding in the sanitizer (bug 55332)

ProofreadPage edit

git #4f28160b - fix failure when $links = array() and $params = null (bug 56669)

SemanticForms edit

git #3c90de7f - Fix for apparent bug where too many pipes are added to generated templates
git #17ac3a84 - fix bug (handling of alternate forms with no default form)
git #a0ab4a3e - Newline fix
git #792bf9f9 - Added handling for new SMW #subobject capability for Page Schemas

TemplateData edit

git #7629dba7 - Avoid extra parsing on edit (bug 57026)
git #0a03f375 - Specify "content" and "unbalanced-wikitext" as a valid parameter types (bug 51374)
git #6cdb47d0 - Drop type prefixes because all values are strings in HTML (and wikitext)
git #50bbd93e - Fix roundtrip issues (normalised output for API must be valid input)

Translate edit

git #95f15357 - Cherry-pick 1415f6d6 e0656091d b9dcb7aea5
git #66dc1253 - Create wmf/1.23wmf4 branch and update .gitreview
git #803a5907 - Fix button styles in Special:Translate
git #e96df21e - Fix ApiTokensTest class name collision (bug 56907)
git #c5288f2b - Remove unexplained call to OutputPage::setRevisionId
git #abf71ba4 - Update ULS RL module names
git #380b6220 - Avoid using deprecated method and add some missing deps

UniversalLanguageSelector edit

git #4d49b1ca - Updated Ruby gems
git #06341f78 - Refactored Autonym font feature
git #cd6766da - Add explicit mediawiki.util dependency to RL modules
git #6f113bdf - Keep previous input settings if new language selected and cancelled (bug 56913)
git #a1b8316e - Remove the non-existing lazyload option for uls plugin
git #8b3d27a5 - Validate the dirty flag before saving preferences in each modules (bug 56885)
git #f884356c - Refactor "Edit area should use the fonts selected by the user from ULS for a language"
git #cffbe791 - Refactor "Open language selector when logged in" (bug 56937)
git #de4f78a6 - Use data-i18n for system font l10n (bug 56888)
git #7822d5d0 - Page scrolls when opening language selector (bug 56937)
git #2bc77f2c - Revert "Do not load jquery.jStorage for logged in users"
git #aef49096 - Update Autonym font (20131112) (bug 56841)
git #5884337c - Do not load jquery.jStorage for logged in users
git #bb250efe - Cleanup wgULSLanguages usage
git #bd52ae05 - ResourceLoaderULSModule::getModifiedTime updates continuously (bug 56856)
git #97c79ec6 - Fix incorrect module name
git #b0d905a5 - Refactored scenario: Edit area fonts should not change on UI language change if the user preferences for edit area font are set
git #b23f937c - Remove the dependency on uls.data
git #f5ce066c - Lazyload jquery.uls library
git #6cd17835 - Update jquery.ime to latest version
git #8b0eeda6 - Fix URL for Autonym font.
git #8430ac88 - Simplify the test code - create autonyms dynamically
git #42deb563 - Update jquery.i18n from upstream
git #fca6e1b1 - Update jquery.uls from upstream.

UploadWizard edit

git #9409f44c - Move file to adhere to module declaration
git #f12fc318 - Set message and group used on Special:SpecialPages

VisualEditor edit

git #db153676 - Blacklist all versions of IE, as IE11 is now out
git #676130da - Fix crash in MWExtensionNode creation mode
git #2d7f93bd - Make generic localization utility for lang code keyed objects
git #2d6864e1 - [browser test] Additional UTF-8 editing test string
git #3dcba767 - Add OO.ui.ToggleWidget
git #9429f4c2 - Make inspector tools active when content is inspectable
git #d2165ad8 - [browser test] identifier for Link close element changed
git #ec1c5733 - Rename remapInteralListIndexes() to correct typo
git #a6dca1bf - Fix docs for ve.dm.Model.getAttributes
git #22287cd3 - Make tools disable correctly
git #65a2f412 - Cleanup after window refactor
git #98bc6adf - Use mw.util.getUrl instead of mw.util.wikiGetlink (deprecated)
git #df3a61e8 - Guard against detached nodes in ve.ce.GeneratedContentNode#doneGenerating (bug 56649)
git #26726ee3 - Fix edit source switch in Firefox (bug 56767)
git #a7c3e968 - Force LTR direction in MWSyntaxHighlightDialog (bug 56780)
git #4192cbc4 - Window refactor
git #53f4b2f1 - MWExtensionInspector input direction based on content (bug 56779)
git #e7b3ff3f - Slight refactoring of global VE language variables
git #1ba0fe0e - Adapt beta features icons for RTL
git #f8d0cbde - [browser test] one more variable string no longer hard coded
git #53cb5a3f - [browser test] edit string no longer hard coded
git #20063995 - Add shortcut commands for underline & sub/superscript.
git #6f650d9a - Add <ref> tags to wikitext detection regex (bug 56755)
git #d6a00d68 - Add a whole bunch of new ve.track() events for instrumenting loading and saving
git #500570b4 - Restore selection when editor is refocused (bug 56651)

WikiEditor edit

git #1a2daca0 - Kranitor: Make JSHint pass

WikimediaMessages edit

git #62f1293f - Add site-wide privacy link (bug 55704)
git #9431929d - Add grammatical cases for Old English (bug 56634, bug 56634)

ZeroRatedMobileAccess edit

git #d370ba69 - : proper js resource loading in zero (bug 57624)
git #c6782fd7 - Improved zero subdomain detection
git #a1fa971d - Do not call API unless needed
git #22fe3bc0 - Added don't ask again button & cleaned up handling logic
git #d858868d - Follow up to getErrorMessage() fix
git #b64e55d0 - Fix getErrorMessage()
git #a66d951c - Removed a few strange or obsolete i18n message strings
git #e3db1a7e - Zero Config cleanup
git #6c36175c - New warning page
git #2af45a70 - Config edit checks and visualizations
git #b0276bc3 - Optimizations for zero config editing
git #b5bef55d - Enforce redirect URL to be absolute
git #66ce83b8 - Changed warning message for Zero
git #1b80563e - Added ZERO API type=proxies and type=carriers to get only pages of needed type