[Wikipedia-l] Software upgrades

[Brion Vibber]

We'll be moving the bug-reduced development branch of MediaWiki into 
production this afternoon/evening (US time) / late night (Europe). 
There may be some new bugs that haven't been caught yet, so please give 
a hoot if you notice anything unusual.

User-visible changes in this round will include:

* Should be faster loading pages with many links.

* Special:Export -- export the source of individual wiki pages, 
optionally with their histories, in a thin XML wrapper which includes 
metadata (time, etc). This may be useful for those of you working on 
automated tools. (There is not yet any comparable import facility.)

* MediaWiki: namespace for adjusting the localization of interface 
messages without waiting for a new LanguageXx.php file to get 
installed. Limited to sysops.

A category system is partially in the code but won't be enabled just 
yet, pending another look over the code.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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