Authentication is via a token entered in preferences, if not blank. If
you set a token in your preferences, the following sort of link will
generate the RSS feed:
api.php?action=feedwatchlist&list=watchlist&wluser=Simetrical&wltoken=91c1ef18279f9c24ccf67a79e899ae4d2a3201bc
I haven't actually added the <link> tag to Special:Watchlist, since I've
done enough coding for one night. Someone else can feel free to do
that (otherwise people might get kind of confused :) ).
An auto-generated random token is suggested to the user on the pref page
so that they don't have to be too creative. Pref help text is rather
underemphasized in the default style, though.
It would be worth considering making this opt-out instead of opt-in,
but that would require some voodoo magic to get the default prefs to
work right (since we'd need a different value for each user). We might
set the default to some function of user id + secret site-specific value
to avoid having to store the values in the database.
Since the feature is implemented via the API, it only works if the API
is enabled. Some API people might want to review my code for sanity.
Bug: 471
Now running auto-generated id/names for radio group items through Sanitizer::escapeId().
For good measure, also manually checking the input 'name' and 'id' field values for base fields against validation and throwing an exception if we ain't got em.
* Bug 18949 LiquidThreads allows threads to be moved to pages without LiquidThreads enabled.
* You could move a thread to the page it was already on, which would leave strange placeholders that don't make sense.
* Allowing wikitext in some new places where it makes sense.
* Adjust UserrightsForm so that it inherits from SpecialPage; nuke HTMLForm. Since this breaks backward compatibility, renamed to UserrightsPage.
* Created SpecialPage::isRestricted() and enforced use of SpecialPage::userCanExecute() instead of hardcoded checks. These can now be overridden so that more complicated restriction systems work sanely. Used them for UserrightsPage (fixes bug 12489).
* A few random comment/documentation tweaks.
Also, update Special:Version date.
to open a XML element. It should help fix bug #5312 later on.
* XML attributes rendering now made by private Xml::expandAttributes() method
* Xml::openElement() and Xml::tags() no more rely on Xml::element() with
a null content.
* Fix wfElement() call with null content when we actually open an element.
* removing some unused global declarations.
* removing or commenting out or adding comments for unused local vars.
* Adding one or two local var declarations.
* Declaring $matches array passed to preg_match() / preg_match_all() as array() before using [not required, just have a slight preference for the explicitness].
* remove one or two pass-by-reference function declarations where the value is not modified.
* Adding some braces to if-else blocks.
* In Parser.php, stripstrate is now an object rather than an array as per r17820, so we no longer need ask for a reference to it (as in "$x =& $this->mStripState;"), and in fact it's probably just simpler to get rid of $x altogether.
* Moving some preg regexes from "" quoting to '' quoting to stop static analyzer whinging about bad escape sequences.
... up to "LinksUpdate.php" in the includes/ directory.
more or less work for now.
* user_groups ur_group is now a short string key ('sysop' etc)
* groups table is gone
* user_rights table is gone
* Permissions for groups are for now set in $wgGroupPermissions.
An in-database management system could be re-added in the future
if it's really needed, but for now it's mostly just been screwing
things up.
* Group.php and Special:Groups are deprecated; will probably die.
* User group memberships are set explicitly through addGroup and
removeGroup methods instead of being re-saved on every change to
the user record.
Group keys are migrated from user_rights at upgrade time for older wikis.
The fields in prior 1.5alpha tables were too screwed up and will need to
manually have sysops re-assigned.
The Makesysop extension will need some minor tweaks.
* Added "static groups" feature to remove memcached/DB load time
* Added i18n support, allowing names and descriptions to be optionally drawn from wfMsg/wfMsgForContent
* Fixed Special:Groups, it is now half-decent. Too many changes to list here.
