So, one tool I've found very useful with MediaWiki is cvs2cl:
http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
There's a Debian package, too ("cvs2cl"). This tool parses CVS log
output to a nicely-formatted ChangeLog file.
It might actually be useful to ship the generated changelogs with
MediaWiki releases.
~ESP
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