for Template:! for purposes such as passing pipes inside of parameters.
* (bug 20790) The block log snippet on Special:Contributions and while
editing user and user talk pages now works for IP range blocks.
+* (bug 35489) Added ability to change the page language for MediaWiki pages using
+ Special:PageLanguage. All pages are set to wiki language by default.
+ The feature needs to be enabled with $wgPageLanguageUseDB=true and
+ permission needs to be set for 'pagelang'.
=== Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
* (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language