MediaWiki 1.19

This is an hypothetic future version which might get released in 2012. You really want to look at previous releases.

Nicer URLs!
Firstly in an experimental branch and originally planned for 1.18, the pretty URL feature is finally around!

MediaWiki attempts to generates nicer URL whenever possible. The URL  can be replaced by the prettier. Enjoy!

Better directionality support


A lot of work has been done, and is still being done, to fix directionality bugs (Left-To-Right, Right-To-Left). Most notably bug 6100 is fixed, which allows to display an RTL interface on an LTR wiki properly (and vice versa). This was developed under $wgBetterDirectionality, which is now no longer used because the improvements are merged with the core code.

A positive consequence is that the page content on wikis with multiple scripts is aligned according to the direction of the selected variant. For example, on a Kazakh language wiki, selecting the Arabic script variant will align the text as RTL, while selecting the Latin or Cyrillic variant will align it as LTR.