HRWiki:Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.6

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[edit] What's new in 1.6

User interface:

• The account creation form has been separated from the user login form.
• Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form
• The user preferences have been redesigned.

Templates:

• Categories and "what links here" now update as expected when adding or removing links in a template.
• Template parameters can now have default values, as {{{name|default value}}}

Uploads:

• Optional support for rasterizing SVG images to PNG for inline display

Feeds:

• Feed generation upgraded to Atom 1.0
• Diffs in RSS and Atom feeds are now colored for improved readability.

Database:

• MySQL 3.23.x support dropped; 4.0 or later required
• Experimental support for Unicode mode of MySQL 4.1/5.0 (moderately tested)
• Experimental Oracle support (not well tested!)

Anti-spam extension support:

• SpamBlacklist extension now has support for automated cleanup.
• Support for a captcha extension to restrict automated spam edits.

New special pages:

• Special:Mostcategories - Articles with the most categories
• Special:Mostrevisions - Articles with the most revisions (edits)
• Special:Listredirects - A list of redirects
• Special:MIMEsearch - Search uploaded files by MIME type
• Special:Mostlinkedcategories - Most used categories
• Special:Mostimages - Most used images
• Special:Prefixindex - A simplified version of Special:Allpages
• Special:Wantedcategories - Categories that are used but don't exist
• Special:Unwatchedpages - (sysop only) Pages that don't have anybody watching them.

Numerous bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes changes have been made.