User:Greg G/interview-exercise

= 1.20wmf Release Notes for Wikipedians =

Summary and highlights

 * 1) ?action=info now available for use on Wikipedia by default giving users basic information on an article.
 * 2) Special:MostInterwikis was created and deployed.
 * 3) Special:Import now supports importing pages as subpages of a root (eg: to a user's namespace)
 * 4) Added patrolmarks, reupload-own, passwortreset, editprotected to list of available rights, selectable at Special:GlobalGroupPermissions
 * 5) VisualEditor now has an improved link inspector which guides users towards an existing article or redlink.
 * 6) ArticleFeedback is now limiting feedback on protected and semi-protected articles to only registered users.

Updates to Core MediaWiki

 * The reimplimentation of ?action=info (bug 38450) is at a point where turning the feature on by default on Wikipedia is possible. See bug 38451 for when that will happen. Ongoing improvements are still planned.


 * The Special:EmailUser page now supports the ability to use GENDER information (along with a simple cosmetic fix on the default Special:EmailUser page).


 * The page Special:MostInterwikis was created to show the ranked list interwiki links by target wiki. (bug 22749)


 * The webbrowser Konqueror, which is used by less than 1% of MediaWiki's users, no longer has a unique instruction line for help on clearing a user's cache.


 * The default return to page after editing a WatchList is now the Watchlist, instead of the Main Page.


 * Added the configuration options of $wgDBssl and $wgDBcompress to use SSL and compression, respecitively, for the database (where supported). MySQL supports both, and PgSQL supports SSL only. The config option is ignored if the database does not support the functionality.


 * Special:Import now supports importing pages as subpages.


 * API Upload now returns more informative error messages (including if the filtetype/extension is banned). (bug 11142)


 * Added patrolmarks, reupload-own, passwortreset, editprotected to list of available rights, selectable at Special:GlobalGroupPermissions or via the API.


 * Messages using jsMessage now appear as a bubble (eg: Growl on Mac) which has many benefits along with working better with VisualEditor.


 * Special:NewImages/15 now correctly limits the gallery to 15 images (instead of 50).


 * Better error message to the user when an old revision or diff can not be found.


 * Now only users with the correct permissions to delete log entries will see the button to do so (some others saw the button before but were unable to use it).


 * New messages bar now links to diff including all unseen messages (instead of just last).

Updates to Extensions

 * VisualEditor
 * Many many updates to the VisualEditor.
 * Now has an improved link inspector which guides users towards an existing article or redlink.
 * Added support for the apex skin.


 * ArticleFeedbackv5
 * Updated to not allow anonymous feedback on protected or semi-protected articles.


 * CentralNotice
 * The banner search bar can now be localized.
 * Country codes now sorted by user's language (not always English)


 * UploadWizard
 * Fixed Firefogg support.


 * Cite
 * Fixed long standing issue of not correctly linking internal wikilinks.


 * DonationInterface
 * It is that time of year! Many updates to improve DonationInterface functionality.


 * E3Experiments
 * Add ability to parse ClickTracking log files.


 * Education Program
 * Many updates including fixing Special:ManageCourses


 * MobileFrontEnd
 * Fixed table scrolling in Opera


 * Narayam
 * Added Punjabi MyBest Keyboard


 * ProofreadPage
 * Small improvements to usability.


 * Translate
 * Many updates including the improvment of usability (eg bug 37666).