Here is a short overview of changes and associated default configuration variables (most everything is off by default) also see ~soon to be updated~: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Media_Projects_Overview
= Upload Improvements =
==Upload API ==
* Based on the early work of Bryan Tong and others it adds the upload option to the api.
* We rewrite Special:Upload page to include use the new refactoring
* Added in token checks in both the SpecialUpload.php page so avoids DOS / xss copy-by-url JavaScript based cross site POST file submissions
== Copy by URL==
$wgAllowCopyUploads = false;
* http class rewrite includes a new http background download see: includes/HttpFunctions.php
* spins off a php process that calls: maintenance/http_session_download.php
* pushes updates to the session and gives the user a progress bar on http copy uploads from other server progress (using js2 upload interface) (if not using the js2 upload interface it does the request in-place but the download is limited to the php ini timeout time)
== Firefogg ==
* Firefogg enables resumable upload by chunks
* progress indicators and conditional invokation (js2 system)
* and of-course client side transcoding.
= Script Server =
$wgEnableScriptLoader = false;
* off by default if $wgEnableScriptLoader is turned on script files are grouped, gziped, cached etc.
for more info see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ScriptLoader
* Includes some early skin js include fixes (skin/script system still lots of love)
* Includes a "javascript class autoloader" this is packaged into mwEmbed so that the mwEmbed library can work in stand alone mode (while retaining localization and script serving) (one such application is the make page for firefogg.org : http://www.firefogg.org/make/index.html )
* The file that contains the autojavascript loading classes is: js2/php/jsAutoloadLocalClasses.php
* One can use this auto class loading dependency system with extensions and add-ons but I need to better document that.
= js2 system / mwEmbed=
$wgEnableJS2system = false
* includes initial rewrite towards more jquery based javascript code
* especially for the Special:Upload page.
* Also the edit page include support for the "add-media-wizard"
* includes dependency loader for javascript that optionally takes advantage of the script-loader
* remote embedding of javascript interfaces (like embedding video, or commons media searching)
* $wgDebugJavaScript = false; .. .this variable lets you always get "always fresh javascript". When used with the script-loader it does not minify the script-loader output.
= mwEmbed =
* Will commit a separate patch to oggHandler that conditionally outputs <video tag> to use the new javascript video player.
** mv_embed player includes: play-head, volume control, remote embedding, oggz-chop support across plugins.
* add-media-wizard adds easy inserts of media to pages (with import)
== jQuery==
* we include a base install of jQuery, jQuery ui and some plugins.
* all the javascript classes are in the scriptloader so its easy to load any set of jquery ui components that you may need using the script-server. You get a callback so you can then execute js with dependencies loaded.
== other stuff ==
there is a bit more code in js2 that pertains to sequence editing, timed text display and basic image editing. We include a base import of pixastic-lib & pixastic-editor... will work with the pixastic developer to try and ensure upstream compatibility on our usage of the library for in-browser photo and sequence manipulation.
* New WantedQueryPage class for all of these Wanted*s, moved some identical methods to it
* Removed sortDescending() because it was already defined as returning true @ QueryPage, no need to duplicate
* forced intval() for the "value" field in QueryPage::recache() since some pages select page_title for it, which is incompatible with "integer"
* changed Special:Unusedimages' query to return the UNIX timestamp rather than raw img_timestamp for the "value" field, the latter has the TS_POSTGRES format on PostgreSQL and is also incompatible with "integer", code taken from Special:Ancientpages
Doxygen documentation update:
* Changed alls @addtogroup to @ingroup. @addtogroup adds the comment to the group description, but doesn't add the file, class, function, ... to the group like @ingroup does. See for example http://svn.wikimedia.org/doc/group__SpecialPage.html where it's impossible to see related files, classes, ... that should belong to that group.
* Added @file to file description, it seems that it should be explicitely decalred for file descriptions, otherwise doxygen will think that the comment document the first class, variabled, function, ... that is in that file.
* Removed some empty comments
* Removed some ?>
Added following groups:
* ExternalStorage
* JobQueue
* MaintenanceLanguage
One more thing: there are still a lot of warnings when generating the doc.
* Used the new functions in the relevant places throughout the core. Where this was not possible, used wfMsgNoTrans() to avoid double-parsing.
* Calling wfEscapeWikiText() on a title before passing it to a message is unnecessary and causes bugs. The best idea is to let the message do its own escaping. Removed wfEscapeWikiText() from the caller of addedwatchtext, removedwatchtext, deletedtext, protect-text, nosuchusershort and movepage-moved. Updated all message files to use <nowiki>$1</nowiki> where appropriate in these messages.
* Removed unnecessary empty message handling from semiprotectedpagewarning
* Removed nonsense warning about the output of wfMsg() not being safe for inclusion in HTML.
* Changed wfShellExec() to use passthru/ob_get_contents instead of exec(). This avoids corruption of whitespace in the response.
* Added $wgValidateAllHtml feature, to optionally validate HTML on output.
* Fixed missing newline in cascadeprotected in MessagesEn.php
* Belatedly updated addedwatchtext to take account of the new "monobook" skin. No unwatch link in the sidebar anymore.
* Add @addtogroup tags to various classes, to try and group conceptually-related classes together.
* Add brief descriptions to various Special pages, thanks to Phil Boswell.
* Moving some docs to be right above the classes they represent, so that they are picked up.
* Introduce ImageQueryPage class which uses galleries instead of boring old lists
* (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images [uncategorised images, most linked-to images and unused files at the moment]
* Convert "$dbw =& wfGetDB( DB_MASTER );" --> "$dbw = wfGetDB( DB_MASTER );"
* convert "$skin =& $wgUser->getSkin();" --> "$skin = $wgUser->getSkin();"
For the time being have not changed the function definitions of wfGetDB() or User::getSkin() [i.e. they are still both return-by-ref], so as to ensure the interface does not change for extensions [some of which may still be trying to run on PHP4 environments]. However presumably at some point this can be changed too.
Also includes tiny tweak to newlines in parserTests - will show 1 rather than 2 newlines between the "Reading tests from" strings when in quiet mode.
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: switch in includes/Parser.php on line 3849
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: ref in includes/Parser.php on line 3818
* Strict Standards: Non-static method OutputPage::setEncodings() should not be called statically in index.php on line 11
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/Skin.php on line 888
* Strict Standards: Non-static method Title::newFromURL() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialContributions.php on line 178
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 2054
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: contributions-summary in languages/Language.php on line 764
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: trackbackhtml in skins/MonoBook.php on line 86
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: blockip in skins/MonoBook.php on line 204
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: tagline in skins/MonoBook.php on line 261
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: uselang in includes/SkinTemplate.php on line 1159
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::plural() cannot be called statically in includes/Parser.php on line 2902
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 0 in includes/SkinTemplate.php on line 196
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: USE INDEX in includes/Database.php on line 1015
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: image_tests in includes/Parser.php on line 3488
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 0 in includes/Parser.php on line 3507
* Strict Standards: Non-static method ChangesList::newFromUser() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php on line 361
* Strict Standards: Non-static method RecentChange::newFromCurRow() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php on line 367
* Strict Standards: is_a(): Deprecated. Please use the instanceof operator in includes/Exception.php on line 168
* Strict Standards: Non-static method LogPage::logName() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialContributions.php on line 325
* Strict Standards: ob_end_flush(): failed to delete and flush buffer. No buffer to delete or flush. in maintenance/commandLine.inc on line 191
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: meatball in languages/Language.php on line 234
* Strict Standards: rmdir(/tmp/mwParser-2108164586-images/thumb): Directory not empty in maintenance/parserTests.inc on line 605
* Cleaning out some new temp files left over by parserTests (there were one or two straggler dirs/files that would persist after the test run ended, due to new tests being added over time)
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::special() cannot be called statically in includes/Parser.php on line 2902
* Strict Standards: Declaration of ListUsersPage::preprocessResults() should be compatible with that of QueryPage::preprocessResults() in includes/SpecialListusers.php on line 38
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference in includes/SpecialBlockip.php on line 175
* Strict Standards: Skin::include_once(skins/Standard.deps.php) [<a href='function.include-once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in includes/Skin.php on line 121
* Strict Standards: Declaration of ApiMain::getResult() should be compatible with that of ApiBase::getResult() in includes/api/ApiMain.php on line 35
* Strict Standards: is_a(): Deprecated. Please use the instanceof operator in includes/WikiError.php on line 63
* Strict Standards: Non-static method WikiError::isError() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialImport.php on line 64
* Strict Standards: Non-static method ImportStreamSource::newFromInterwiki() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialImport.php on line 58<b
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/SpecialUndelete.php on line 501
* Strict Standards: Non-static method Image::newFromName() should not be called statically in thumb.php on line 56
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::numberoffiles() cannot be called statically in includes/Parser.php on line 2902
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::statisticsFunction() should not be called statically in includes/CoreParserFunctions.php on line 139
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::isRaw() should not be called statically in includes/CoreParserFunctions.php on line 128
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::grammar() cannot be called statically in includes/Parser.php on line 2902
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 1 in includes/SpecialMIMEsearch.php on line 130
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: recentchangeslinked in skins/MonoBook.php on line 184
* Strict Standards: Declaration of DumpNotalkFilter::pass() should be compatible with that of DumpFilter::pass() in includes/Export.php on line 612
* Strict Standards: Declaration of DumpNamespaceFilter::pass() should be compatible with that of DumpFilter::pass() in includes/Export.php on line 665
* Strict Standards: Non-static method ImportStreamSource::newFromUpload() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialImport.php on line 46
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 5 in includes/Sanitizer.php on line 396
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: wikidbUserName in includes/SpecialUserlogin.php on line 562
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 95
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 116
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/api/ApiQueryWatchlist.php on line 128
* Strict Standards: Undefined property: stdClass::$rc_id in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 131
* Strict Standards: Undefined property: stdClass::$rc_last_oldid in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 164
* Strict Standards: Undefined property: stdClass::$rc_moved_to_ns in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 285
* Strict Standards: Undefined property: stdClass::$rc_patrolled in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 176
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: comment in includes/api/ApiFeedWatchlist.php on line 85
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 0 in includes/Skin.php on line 302
* Strict Standards: Non-static method User::SetupSession() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialUserlogin.php on line 15
... There are certain to be other things too, so this is not intended to be comprehensive, rather the above just stops most of the notifications I observed.
* remove require_once() throughout whole code, yet left in few places
* move global functions in HttpUtils, ProxyTools, Credits to class methods
* php5 only: __autoload() now used, combined with class->file map and require()
* move initialization of $wgValidSkinNames to Skin::getSkinNames()
* few more changes that will surely break stuff.
should be cached in the querycache
* Adding a hook to allow an extension to add itself to $wgQueryPages
* Moved the recache() limit out of this file (into maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php)
