RELEASE-NOTES

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   3 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
   4 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
   5
   6 == MediaWiki 1.14 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
  11 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
  12 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
  13
  14 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
  15 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
  16 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
  17
  18 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
  19 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
  20
  21 === Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
  22
  23 * $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
  24   the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words.  (Default: null, ex-
  25   empt all content namespaces.)
  26 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
  27   has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
  28 * (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
  29   $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent Changes
  30   feed that appears on all pages.
  31 * $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
  32   SQLite data directories on creation. Note this setting is separate from
  33   $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal directories created by MediaWiki.
  34 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
  35   $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
  36   group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
  37   Backwards compatibility is maintained.
  38 * $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
  39   word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
  40   is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
  41 * $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
  42 * $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
  43 * Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
  44   with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
  45   is not required.
  46 * $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
  47 * Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
  48   whitelist on or off.
  49 * Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
  50   sitenotice cache keys.
  51 * $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
  52 * (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
  53   write actions using the API.
  54
  55 === Migrated extensions ===
  56 The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
  57
  58 * Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was extension
  59   DeletedContributions)
  60 * Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
  61 * Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
  62 * RenderHash
  63 * NoMoveUserPages
  64 * Poem (patch by Nathaniel Herman)
  65 * UniversalEditButton
  66
  67 === New features in 1.14 ===
  68
  69 * New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
  70   'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
  71   'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
  72 * Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
  73   respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
  74   MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
  75   PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
  76 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
  77   search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
  78 * Handheld stylesheet options
  79 * Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
  80   'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks.  Note that the
  81   'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
  82   run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
  83   if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
  84 * Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
  85   $wgCleanSignatures=false
  86 * Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
  87   sidebar and add custom portlets to it
  88 * Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
  89   ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
  90 * (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
  91   Special:ListGroupRights
  92 * (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
  93 * (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
  94   the main page to be customized
  95 * Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
  96   the wiki
  97 * Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
  98   added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
  99   being converted or not
 100 * (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
 101   Patch by Emufarmers
 102 * Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
 103 * Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
 104   after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
 105   templates to work with that hook.
 106 * (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
 107   'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
 108 * (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
 109 * By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
 110   so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
 111 * (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
 112   option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
 113 * (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
 114   Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
 115 * Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
 116   groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
 117 * HTML entities like &nbsp; now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
 118 * (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
 119   instead of a hardcoded colon.
 120 * Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
 121 * Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
 122 * BMP images are now displayed as PNG
 123 * (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
 124 * (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
 125 * Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
 126 * Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
 127 * Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
 128   treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
 129   displaying an external image inline.
 130 * (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
 131 * (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
 132 * (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
 133 * Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
 134   small categories
 135 * After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
 136 * (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
 137 * (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
 138   Special:Statistics
 139 * (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
 140   plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
 141 * (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
 142   deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
 143 * Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
 144   image.
 145 * (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for different
 146   restriction types on the protection form.
 147 * (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
 148 * Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
 149 * Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
 150   $wgExternalLinkTarget
 151 * api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the maxlag
 152   check fails, just like index.php does
 153 * Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
 154   arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
 155   solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
 156 * (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
 157   using new "alt=" parameter for images
 158 * (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized namespace
 159   names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of underscores to
 160   match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
 161 * Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
 162   default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
 163   marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
 164 * Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
 165   several uses of the same image.
 166 * (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
 167   wiki is set to read-only mode.
 168 * Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.  This
 169         should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page from a watchlist
 170   lead to this hook being called (it was previously only called from within Article.php
 171 * Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
 172   $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
 173 * (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
 174   is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
 175 * Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
 176   linked from articles
 177 * Make search matches bold only, not red as well
 178
 179 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
 180
 181 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
 182 * (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
 183   falls back to the user option
 184 * (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
 185 * Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
 186 * Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
 187 * Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
 188 * (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
 189 * (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
 190 * (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
 191 * Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
 192 * (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
 193   no longer redirect to the second link
 194 * (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
 195   a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
 196   Patch by Max Semenik.
 197 * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
 198   user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
 199 * (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in 5
 200   minutes.
 201 * (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
 202   wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
 203 * (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the diff
 204   entirely, not just the display of it.
 205 * (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
 206   allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
 207 * (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
 208   ns-special to special pages.
 209 * (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
 210 * (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
 211   for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
 212   WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
 213 * (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
 214   again
 215 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
 216 * (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
 217   gives results
 218 * Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
 219   contain '/*' in the title
 220 * Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
 221 * $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
 222   addition to body text.
 223 * Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
 224   from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
 225 * Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
 226   description pages).
 227 * (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
 228 * (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
 229   literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
 230 * (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
 231   namespace in Special:Watchlist
 232 * (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
 233   last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
 234 * (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
 235 * Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
 236   Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
 237   long-lasting locks on that table.
 238 * Respect file restrictions in the file history list
 239 * (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
 240   tables, and have been disabled by default.
 241 * (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
 242 * (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
 243 * (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
 244 * (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
 245 * (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
 246 * (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
 247   Special:Userlogin. Patch by Marooned.
 248 * Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
 249   LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
 250 * Special:Recentchangeslinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent pages
 251   even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the database
 252 * (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for recentchanges
 253   limit instead of hardcoded 50.
 254 * (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
 255   instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
 256 * (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
 257   has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
 258 * (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
 259 * Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
 260 * (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
 261 * Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
 262 * (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
 263 * (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
 264 * (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
 265 * Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
 266 * (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
 267 * (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
 268 * (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
 269 * (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
 270   user can only change his rights
 271 * (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
 272 * (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
 273 * (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
 274 * (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now bolded
 275   if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
 276 * Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the Konqueror
 277   browser correctly use the latter
 278 * (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
 279 * (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
 280   preferences.
 281 * (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
 282 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia search box
 283 * (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding new namespace
 284 * Purge form uses valid XHTML and (bug 8992) uses $wgRequest instead of $_SERVER
 285 * (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
 286
 287 === API changes in 1.14 ===
 288
 289 * Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
 290   shown as empty instead of the current time.
 291 * API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
 292   or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
 293   This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
 294   &srwhat=text to the query.
 295 * Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
 296 * (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
 297   are now listed on action=help
 298 * (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
 299   between requests
 300 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
 301   output.
 302 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
 303 * list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
 304 * (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
 305   non-hidden categories
 306 * (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of an
 307   error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
 308 * list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
 309   etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
 310   for consistency with other list modules.
 311 * Added action=watch
 312 * (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
 313 * action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228  when trying to create an empty
 314   section with section=new
 315 * Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
 316   nochange flag any more
 317 * (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
 318 * (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
 319   return just "Unknown error"
 320 * (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
 321 * (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
 322 * (bug 15466) Added action=purge
 323 * (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
 324 * (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
 325 * (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
 326 * (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
 327   if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
 328 * list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
 329 * Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
 330   hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
 331 * action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
 332 * (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
 333   WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
 334 * (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
 335   rather than causing an exception
 336 * Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
 337 * (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
 338 * Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
 339   be disabled in LocalSettings.php
 340 * (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
 341 * (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
 342 * (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
 343   and undeleted since the last edit
 344 * (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
 345   action=protect
 346 * Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
 347 * (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
 348 * (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
 349   manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
 350 * (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
 351 * The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
 352 * (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
 353   and patrolmarks right
 354 * (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
 355   descending order.
 356 * (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
 357   list=categorymembers
 358 * (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
 359   sortkeys containing pipes
 360 * (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
 361   works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
 362 * (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
 363   output
 364 * Added redirect resolution to action=parse
 365 * (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
 366   an error
 367 * (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
 368
 369 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===
 370
 371 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
 372 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
 373
 374 * Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
 375 * Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
 376 * Krio (kri) (new)
 377 * Lezghian (lez) (new)
 378 * Laz (lzz) (new)
 379 * Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
 380 * Niuean (niu) (new)
 381 * Oromo (om) (new)
 382 * Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
 383 * Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
 384 * Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
 385 * Tulu (tcy) (new)
 386
 387 == Compatibility ==
 388
 389 MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 390
 391 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 392 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 393 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 394
 395 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 396 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 397
 398
 399 == Upgrading ==
 400
 401 1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema
 402 updates.
 403
 404 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 405 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 406 database schema changes.
 407
 408 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 409 new database fields are filled with data.
 410
 411 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 412 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 413 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 414
 415 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 416
 417
 418 === Caveats ===
 419
 420 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 421 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 422 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 423 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 424 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 425
 426 For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 427
 428
 429 === Online documentation ===
 430
 431 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 432 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 433 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 434 the public domain) :
 435
 436   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 437
 438
 439 === Mailing list ===
 440
 441 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 442 wikitech-l list:
 443
 444   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 445
 446 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 447
 448   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 449
 450 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 451 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 452
 453
 454 === IRC help ===
 455
 456 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net