mt_rand() function has a maximum value of 2^31-1, which
is small enough that duplicate values can occur due to the
Birthday paradox, e.g. on the English Wikipedia. To fix
this, add a wfRandom() function that calls mt_rand()
twice to get the desired amount of randomness.
* Remove some duplication in wfUtf8Entity(), the guts now moved to UtfNormalUtil.php
* Moved $wgReplacementKeys to a static var
* Some comments and cleanup
* 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
the message keys instead of the actual messages. I think this will be
very useful to sysops trying to find out what message in the MediaWiki
namespace to edit. I hope this does not incur too much of a server
performance degradation, since this function is used pretty frequently.
Obsoletes: wfTimestamp2Unix, wfUnix2Timestamp, wfTimestampNow;
Autodetects database, mediawiki and unix timestamps
to be done: inverted timestamp support
** Database constructor calling sequence, and Database::newFromParams()
** Including flags in the server initialisation structs
** Support for setting appropriate flags from legacy globals in Setup.php
** Moved some defines to Define.php so that they can be used in LocalSettings.php, most importantly the bit field constants
* Changes related to post-parse link colouring
** Turn the link cache back on when using it for updating the links table
** No longer need to call preFill() on page view
* Better synchronisation of slave servers
** Rearranged getConnection()
** System for beginning and committing transactions when multiple connections are open
** wfAbruptExit() commits transactions, wfErrorExit() does not. Various functions changed to use wfErrorAbort()
* Allowed reporting of database errors during deferred updates by moving them above output()
* 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
* Moving common special page handling to SpecialPage.php
* Special page lists in the language classes are obsolete, replaced by the list in SpecialPage.php
* Special:Specialpages uses the standard page titles wfMsg(pagename) instead of the description list previously contained in the $wgSpecialPagesEn arrays
* Ability to add custom messages to the MessageCache. Overridable by the MediaWiki namespace.
* Moving board vote functionality from includes/SpecialBoardvote.php to extensions/BoardVote.php
Also, urlencode anchor names for non-ascii compatibility. This is the
recommendation of HTML 4.01 standard in B.2.1, as far as I can tell.
Works in UTF-8 at least for IE6/win, Firefox, Safari.
