Replaces the ugly, often breaking, manually archived log pages with
a nice clean table which can be sorted, trimmed, viewed in pieces, etc.
You can see all logged actions by some user, or affecting some page,
and can combine the views of all all logs in one.
There are probably still some broken things in here, but I want this
committed before the patch gets any bigger.
recentchanges table is altered to make rc_namespace signed so Special:
links can be listed in it.
* Remove some unused and some useless functions from GlobalSettings.php
* wfEscapeHTML() replaced with PHP built-in htmlspecialchars().
* Moved some functions into Parser.php and Image.php
transparent PNG thumbnails to white instead of default black. This will
be shown in Internet Explorer 6 and will generally be less invasive
(particularly for black-on-transparent line art!)
Fix for [ 978664 ] Thumbnails of transparent PNGs bad in IE6
* DB_WRITE now called DB_MASTER, DB_READ now called DB_SLAVE
* Converted to use SQL wrapper functions instead of direct SQL in various places
* Experimental method for preserving the chronological order of events when slave servers are used. Untested.
* Fixes to the new post-parse existence test feature
* Some.. other stuff
