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.
sites with updated CC-BY-SA license... Messages now available in
WikimediaMessages extension for localization:
* wikimedia-copyright - page footer
* wikimedia-copyrightwarning - edit page, above summary/save button
* wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary - edit page, below summary/save button & above edittools
Initial English defaults are taken from
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation
Ariel's search for other copyright-related messages looks fairly clean,
so we should be good here for now as $wgRightsText/$wgRightsUrl are
already updated.
Messages are overridden using new hooks, which can also be used to switch the
messages based on title or namespace -- this may be desirable for sites such
as mediawiki.org which keep some namespaces PD etc.
Use of the overridden messages by WikimediaMessages is switched in when
$wgRightsUrl is set to 'http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/'
Patch by Church of Emacs (bug 16950) with whitespace fixes. r51041
tried to remove just rev_deleted log entries from displaying (bug
18747), but removed all entries other than page deletion instead
(including restoration and move logs). It also only removed rev_deleted
log entries for recreating, not just viewing.
Showing the move log as well as delete log helps with pages that were
moved with no redirect, or moved and then the redirect deleted with a
confusing message. Previously, such pages would appear to have never
existed to a user trying to create them.
Patch by church of emacs, with trivial modifications by me.
* Move undo text generation from EditPage::getContent() to Article::getUndoText()
* Add some more examples for action=edit
* ApiEditPage.php: don't mix !is_null() and isset(), be consistent
* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
** update redirect page UI to show each step down to the destination page
** rdfrom text still links to original page visited
** pages still show up in DoubleRedirects
** setting to 1 (default) is current behavior of only going 1 step down. Setting to 0 disables automatic redirects.
** arrow image needs to be smoothed, couldn't figure out how to do it myself while keeping the image in indexed mode
* (bug 10569) Redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer allowed to prevent redirect loops
** can be re-enabled by changing the $wgInvalidRedirectTargets array
