Wikia - creating communities

We are planning a software upgrade to MediaWiki 1.6 in April 2006. You can read the release notes from www.mediawiki.org. Full release notes can be found at svn.wikimedia.org.

A few new features you might notice:

• Shared templates should start working again
• SVG support with rsvg
• New design on preferences and user login
• Special:Whatlinkshere will be more accurate and will show when a template is used
• A new external links table will let us check for spam more efficiently
• New maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another (I don't yet know if this will work on our shared user database)
• Many language files updates and improvements to the default messages in the MediaWiki namespace
• Fixed to and
• New variables: {{CURRENTDAY2}}, {{SUBPAGENAME}}, {{SUBPAGENAMEE}}, {{FULLPAGENAME}}, {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}, and {{fullurl:X}}
• Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
• Allow bots to be hidden from Special:Newimages and Special:Watchlist
• Page protection level for unregistered/new accounts
• Blocked admins can no longer rollback, delete, or protect whilst blocked
• Optional "hide own edits" on Special:Recentchanges
• @import for MediaWiki:Common.css added to all skins
• Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview
• New special page: Special:Listredirects
• Redirects to categories and images now work
• Cookies can be shared between multiple Wikia
• Special:Undelete now shows the wikitext instead of the rendered page
• Live Preview fixed
• New user preference to add new pages to creators's watchlist