12 May 2007

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InterWiki linking improved

Interwiki linking is a very useful feature of MediaWiki, but unfortunately it's always been quite a hassle adding or changing the entries as it requires a maintenance script to be run or an SQL database query to be executed. Today a new extension called Extension:InterWiki has been created to allow the InterWiki lists of all the OD/Wikia to be maintained from a single file in extensions/InterWiki/InterWiki.txt.

InterWiki linking is also useful for linking to other sites, and even the default MediaWiki list has some non-wiki links in it, for example Google:foo is a quick way to link to a google search using the keyword foo (or G:foo for short). I've added a few others which may come in handy, which the following examples demonstrate:

• PERL:localtime
• PHP:fopen
• SQL:select

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Site upgraded to MediaWiki 1.10.0

Today the site has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.10.0 which became the latest stable release of the software on Wednesday May 9^th. The new LaTeX math rendering did not successfully build, but the last version's math appears to be compatible. The new one which won't build is in extensions/math10. The other version 1.9.3 wiki's on the server haven't been upgraded yet as there could be problems with some of the extensions which need ironing out first.

• MediaWiki Release Notes
• Special:Version