MediaWiki 1.20

MediaWiki 1.20 is an obsolete release of MediaWiki.

This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users.

You can consult the  file for the full list of changes.

It was deployed to Wikimedia wikis through incremental "wmf"-branches starting April 2012.

Final version was released on November 7th 2012, see .

What's new?
MediaWiki 1.20 includes all changes released in the smaller roadmap>MediaWiki 1.20/Roadmap|bi-weekly "1.20wmfX" updates for Wikimedia sites.

An overview of their changes is available overview>MediaWiki 1.20/wmf1/overview|only for 1.20wmf1.

Diff
New diff view, greatly improved in clarity especially when viewing at small changes to pages (including whitespace changes) and colour-blind users. This fixes at last a major deficiency in MediaWiki's accessibility, already noted by Sunir Shah in 2001.[//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Magnus_Manske&diff=377&oldid=180]
 * With the latest version, spotting changes is much easier. It's speeded up workflow considerably: the kdenlive manual has many pages where small updates have been made, it would have taken me ages with the old diffs. — Anne Wilson

New features

 * New special page Special:MostInterwikis.
 * New magic word   which gives the current page ID.
 * The info action has been reimplemented.

Internationalization

 * New languages supported: Emilian (egl), Tornedalen Finnish (fit), Mizo (lus), Santali (sat), Turoyo (tru)
 * New Cyrillic-Latin language converter for Uzbek (uz)

Heads-up for MediaWiki administrators

 * Minimum PHP version is now 5.3.2.

Bundled extensions
No new extensions bundles have been done for this release; add your 1>suggestions for extensions to be integrated|suggestions for extensions to be integrated, they'll be considered for the next release.

However, the mwlb>MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle|MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle is now available for easy installation and upgrade of language and translation-related extensions.

Deprecations
The following extensions make use of one or more hooks added in MediaWiki 1.20.0 and may therefore require MediaWiki 1.20 for some or all of their functionalities:


 * ApprovedRevs
 * ArticleFeedbackv5
 * Cite
 * Echo
 * EducationProgram
 * OATHAuth
 * SemanticExpressiveness
 * Variables
 * Wikibase
 * WikidataRepo
 * WikimediaIncubator
 * StickToThatLanguage