MediaWiki 1.24

MediaWiki 1.24 is currently being developed. Consult the file for the full list of changes. It is currently deployed on Wikimedia Foundation wikis through incremental "wmf"-branches starting April 2014. The 1.24.0 stable release is expected to come out somewhere in 2014. Download the or checkout the   branch in Git to follow this release.

Preferences made easier
MediaWiki is known to be extremely flexible and customisable, but few users use its full potential. In 1.24, we aim to make dozens obscure preferences easily discoverable and obvious to use.


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New features

 * Category pages can now be moved.

Usability

 * The move feature and other actions are now discoverable in Vector, thanks to a label for the dropdown where they're hidden by default.

Release schedule

 * TBD