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1.16 software. Although some of the most important 1.16 changes had already been applied to the server park, this was the first major software update since July 2009, when MediaWiki 1.15 was released. The switch itself was relatively uneventful and Knowledge was back in business after just a few
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On 7 April, a security issue with the login process was discovered and fixed. The fix caused many bots to temporarily be offline, but software updates for the major bot frameworks, such as
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hours. As expected after 10 months of development, a substantial amount of problems and oversights were discovered in the hours and days following the switch to the new software.
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The order of the "diff" and "history" links was switched on Contributions pages in order to be consistent with the Recent Changes views and the Watchlist.
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There was in fact a software upgrade in October 2009 as well and possibly in September too. --
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Rewritten Special:Upload that is more extensible and has improved warning and error reporting.
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for support of the TIFF format that their source material and restoration work normally use.
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You can no longer upload files of one file type on top of a file of another filetype.
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extension. This new extension will allow the creation of thumbnails for (paged)
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http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-April/000090.html
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First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
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You can find details about the MediaWiki 1.16 changes in the
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Get the latest headlines on your user page – just add
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Several problems in wikis of languages such as Malay.
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