Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.23
In the coming days, we will be upgrading the software that powers MozillaWiki. This upgrade includes several significant changes to the software behind MozillaWiki, as well as extremely obvious changes to the wiki's appearance. Some of these changes may affect your user preferences.
This page will be updated as the changes are determined and deployed.
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MediaWiki changes
- Support for skins other than
Vector
(the current default skin) andMonoBook
(a former default skin) has been dropped. - New diff view improves accessibility for colorblind users.
- The
info
page action, which provides useful statistics for any given page, has been improved and turned on by default. - Watchlist e-mail notifications now clearly state which action was performed on watched pages.
- Major improvements have been made to the patrolling system, which helps combat spam and vandalism.
Special pages
- New special page Special:MostInterwikis lists the pages with the most interwiki links.
- New special page Special:AllMyUploads allows the user to see all files they have uploaded.
- Special page Special:Disambiguations has been removed.
Magic words
- New magic word
{{PAGEID}}
(226796) provides a unique, unchanging ID for the current page. - New magic word
{{ROOTPAGENAME}}
(News) provides the name of the topmost page (without the namespace) for a subpage. - New magic word
{{REVISIONSIZE}}
(6314) provides the size of the current page revision.
MozillaWiki changes
- The default skin for new and anonymous users has changed from
GMO
toVector
. Custom styling has been applied to giveVector
a more Mozilla-y feel. Note that any pages relying on custom styling applied to theGMO
skin need to be updated. - Users are no longer given the option to use a skin other than
Vector
orMonoBook
. However, users who have already selected such skins (such asCavendish
,GMO
, orModern
) will be permitted to continue to use them for a limited time. Note that the MozillaWiki team will no longer maintain any of these unsupported skins, so any remaining bugs will not be fixed. - The Main Page has been redesigned to emphasize information that visitors are likely to be looking for. (The old Main Page is still available at Main Page/Legacy.)
- The sidebar has been improved immensely to include links to important and widely-used pages.
- The MozillaWiki namespace has been cleaned of cruft and claimed for meta pages about MozillaWiki and the MozillaWiki team. See MozillaWiki:About and MozillaWiki:Team for more information.
Timeline
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2014-08-07 | Announce upcoming changes
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FAQWhy has the appearance of MozillaWiki changed?For much of the life of MozillaWiki, it has been using a custom skin by default. (A skin is what controls the appearance of the wiki; you might know it better as a theme.) Early on, it was using In addition to any problems in the appearance of the two custom skins, the code that powers them suffers from incompatibilities with newer MediaWiki software, which makes it difficult to upgrade the wiki when the time comes. In order to prevent this problem in the future, we have made the decision to drop support for the previous custom skins and instead build on top of an existing stock skin using the in-wiki capabilities provided by the MediaWiki software. Why was
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