Also make a few changes to the functions available. SpecialPageFactory::resolveAlias() now takes an optional subpage and returns array(<name>,<subpage>). Similarly merge getPage() and getPageByAlias(). There were many examples of (extensions particularly) making dubious assumptions about the presence or absence of subpages or canonical-ness.
I didn't deprecate SpecialPage::getTitleFor() as it's got over six hundred calls. I'm rather undecided on the best position of getPage()/executePath(). Although the latter needs cleanup anyway.
Patch by Umherirrender on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25675 - normalizes spaces to underscores for our direct alias list comparison.
The current English names mostly use CamelCase, but this is visible with eg German localization, where ExpandTemplates extension has [[Spezial:Vorlagen expandieren]].
This is a global search and replace of NS_IMAGE and NS_IMAGE_TALK with NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK respectively in all core files, excluding those already updated in step 1 (r44004).
*In SearchEngine's case, it gets caught every time further up the page (it never even reaches the upper/lower casing of only first character part)
*PrefixSearch eventually sends it through ApiQueryBase::titleToKey()
*AjaxFunctions immediately sends it to Title::newFromText()
* check in a new ajax suggestion engine (mwsuggest.js) which uses
OpenSearch to fetch results (by default via API), this should
deprecated the old ajaxsearch thingy
* extend PrefixSearchBackend hook to accept multiple namespaces for
future lucene use (default implementation however can still
process only one)
* Added to preferences, also a feature to turn it on/off for every
input (disabled atm until I work out browser issues completely)
* WMF wikis probably won't be using API to fetch results, but a
custom php wrapper that just forwards the request to appropriate
lucene daemon, added support for that
SpecialSearch:
* moved stuff out of SpecialSearch to SearchEngine, like snippet
highlighting and such
* support for additional interwiki results, e.g. title matches
from other projects shown in a separate box on the right
* todo: interwiki box doesn't have standard prev/next links to
avoid clutter and unintuitive interface
* support for related articles
Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages,
and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code,
and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
