* 'editfont' => 'sans-serif'; -> trivial (can be set in CSS)
* 'underline' => 0; by languages written in scripts that are hard to read with underlines -> now set in shared.css, which makes it work also when they are used as interface language (note that [lang="xx"] is not yet present on wikitext content by default but will be soon as part of my work on RTL improvements)
* 'quickbar' => 2; by RTL languages. For this, I introduced a new option (5) that sets left/right according to the directionality of your interface language (and automatic is better than setting it in MessagesXx files!). Note that the broken feature was in this case "corrected" by CSS flipping, causing preferences to say "left" while it was actually "right". This commit fixes that bug as well.
Third, it actually would have made more sense to have it them load for wgLang instead of wgContLang, but that's not possible because wgLang is itself dependent on preferences
* MW_MATH_* constants are now defined in Math extension
* Language::getMathNames() is removed
* mathNames section in message files is removed
* A hardcoded preference override in refreshLinks moved to MaintenanceRefreshLinksInit hook
* Allow any language code which consists entirely of valid title characters, and does not contain any path-traversal characters, to be customised via the uselang parameter. Language::isValidCode() represents this concept.
* Add some shortcuts preventing Language and LocalisationCache from looking for localisation files for a language code which does not follow the usual form of language codes in MediaWiki, i.e. /[a-z-]*/. This concept is represented by Language::isValidBuiltInCode().
* Do not allow colon characters in file names, per Platonides' suggestion on CR.
* In MagicWord::initRegex(), put the longest synonyms first in the alternation. This means that when one synonym is an initial substring of another, the longest one will match in precedence, which is generally in line with user expectations.
This patch automatically includes synonyms from the fallback localisation, and prevents the case flag from being overridden, thus making extensions resistant to translator error.
* MessageCache::singleton() calls wfGetMessageCacheStorage() directly instead of using $messageMemc, just in case this would be called before that variable is set
* Per TimStarling: also removed deprecated methods in MessageCache class: addMessages() and related, [get|set|enable|disable]Transform(), loadAllMessages(), loadMessageFile() and some others. Same for the legacyData stuff in LocalisationCache that was only used by MessageCache::addMessages() and related.
* Converted remaining extensions
* In SqlBagOStuff, ignore errors due to a read-only database, per my comments on CR r42796. Same for LocalisationCache.
* Merged SqlBagOStuff and MediaWikiBagOStuff, that proved to be an awkward and unnecessary generalisation. Use the standard quoting wrapper functions instead of $db->query().
* Implemented atomic incr() and decr() functions for SqlBagOStuff.
* Made incr() and decr() generally work roughly the same as it does in memcached, respecting negative steps instead of ignoring such operations. This allows decr() to be implemented in terms of incr().
* Per bug 11533, in MessageCache.php, don't retry 20 times on a cache failure, that's really memcached-specific and won't be useful for other cache types. It's not really very useful for memcached either.
* Moved MySQL-specific implementations of wasDeadlock() and wasErrorReissuable() to DatabaseMysql.
* Briefly tested page views with $wgReadOnly=read_only=1, fixed an error from Article::viewUpdates(). A CentralAuth fix will be in a subsequent commit.
* Made wfDeprecated() issue a notice only once for each function name instead of every time the function is called.
* Added exceptions for malformed keys input to $wgMessageCache->get(), per CR comments on r52503
* Fixed notice from MWException::useMessageCache()
* The serialized message cache, which would have been redundant, has been removed. Similar performance characteristics can be achieved with $wgLocalisationCacheConf['manualRecache'] = true;
* Added a maintenance script rebuildLocalisationCache.php for offline rebuilding of the localisation cache.
* Extension i18n files can now contain any of the variables which can be set in Messages*.php. It is possible, and recommended, to use this feature instead of the hooks for special page aliases and magic words.
* $wgExtensionAliasesFiles, LanguageGetMagic and LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases are retained for backwards compatibility. $wgMessageCache->addMessages() and related functions have been removed. wfLoadExtensionMessages() is a no-op and can continue to be called for b/c.
* Introduced $wgCacheDirectory as a default location for the various local caches that have accumulated. Suggested $IP/cache as a good place for it in the default LocalSettings.php and created this directory with a deny-all .htaccess.
* Patched Exception.php to avoid using the message cache when an exception is thrown from within LocalisationCache, since this tends to fail horribly.
* Removed Language::getLocalisationArray(), Language::loadLocalisation(), Language::load()
* Fixed FileDependency::__sleep()
* In Cdb.php, fixed newlines in debug messages
In MessageCache::get():
* Replaced calls to $wgContLang capitalisation functions with plain PHP functions, reducing the typical case from 99us to 93us. Message cache keys are already documented as being restricted to ASCII.
* Implemented a more efficient way to filter out bogus language codes, reducing the "foo/en" case from 430us to 101us
* Optimised wfRunHooks() in the typical do-nothing case, from ~30us to ~3us. This reduced MessageCache::get() typical case time from 93us to 38us.
* Removed hook MessageNotInMwNs to save an extra 3us per cache hit. Reimplemented the only user (LocalisationUpdate) using the new hook LocalisationCacheRecache.
