MediaWiki 1.20/wmf1/overview

This is a future version of MediaWiki which will eventually be deployed and released in 2012. Look at the Roadmap for updates and scheduling. As of January 2012 it's not even being worked on yet and hasn't been branched off the development mainstream.

What's new?
Comprehensive list of what's new will be in the release notes.

Probably in 1.20:
 * Gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader, which means each module executes in a local (new) scope by default.
 * The upcoming ResourceLoader 2.0 includes a Top load queue (while most of the specifications aren't included in MW 1.19) . This will be first released as part of MediaWiki 1.19. From that release on, the  and   module are loaded from the top, and extensions can add their modules to the top by setting 'position' to 'top' in the array item of