This page is a log of all system changes to the Case Wiki. Changes on this page were performed by administrators of the Case Wiki.

• 2006-11-18
  • Upgraded Semantic MediaWiki to version 0.6

• 2006-11-13
  • Minor changes to Special:GraphStructure. Nothing user-visible. The extension shouldn't break now.
  • Fixed a bug in Semantic MediaWiki that was causing fatal errors. Not sure how it was being produced.

• 2006-10-26
  • Removed GIS extension (<geo> tag). Has been superceded by SemanticMediaWiki
  • Updated Google Maps extension so JS lives in wikispace MediaWiki:GoogleMaps.js

• 2006-10-20
  • Upgraded WikiFeeds to version 0.4
    • Enabled caching, so feeds should be faster now

• 2006-10-19
  • Activated CharInsert extension
  • Expanded MediaWiki:Edittools to provide some hopefully helpful shortcuts for editors

• 2006-10-14
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.8.2
  • Special:GraphStructure graphs now built in the background every 30 minutes, so no long delays when querying

• 2006-10-13
  • Fixed Case skin so all JavaScript goodies work (broken from upgrade)
  • Fixed Google Maps extensions (broken from upgrade)

• 2006-10-12
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.8.1
    • Activated new MediaWiki api (http://wiki.case.edu/api.php)
  • Added DynamicPageList2 extension

• 2006-10-10
  • Added Course namespace for courseware and work related to specific courses

• 2006-09-17
  • Removed Tasks extension

• 2006-09-13
  • Updates to Semantic MediaWiki
    • Map links to Google and Mapquest now work (upstream bug)
    • Special:Types now lists all types (upstream issue)
  • Updates to Special:GraphStructure
    • Fixed a bug that was causing the extension to crash
    • Added Special:GraphStructure/xml/locations, which outputs XML describing all of the location-encoded information on the wiki

• 2006-09-04
  • Updates to Special:GraphStructure
    • Nodes now have attributes corresponding to Semantic MediaWiki attributes as well as GIS coordinates
    • New edge type relation which corresponds to Semantic MediaWiki relations
  • Special:ExportRDF now allows recursive export

• 2006-09-03
  • Fixed site logo issues with IE by replacing PNG with GIF

• 2006-09-01
  • Installed Special:GraphStructure, which exports XML describing the wiki or parts of the wiki.

• 2006-08-30
  • Installed Semantic MediaWiki 0.5. See their docs for info on how to use

• 2006-08-11
  • Updated following extensions
    • WikiFeeds
    • OpenSearch
    • Tasks
    • Cite
    • Graphs
  • Added CategoryTree extension.

• 2006-07-15
  • Updated template banner so that it is less obtrusive

• 2006-07-09
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.7.1

• 2006-05-24
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.6.6

• 2006-05-02
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.6.4
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.6.5

• 2006-05-01
  • Issue 404 HTTP status code if requested page doesn't exist. Why doesn't MediaWiki do this already?
  • Better OpenSearch support

• 2006-04-27
  • Fixed Touchgraph
  • Fixed AJAX Watcher
  • Hopefully fixed ITS Dashboard logins metric
  • Installed a edit confirmation extension to further prevent spam attacks
    • Only affects anonymous edits that contain links to external domains
  • Added Special:Interwiki to view and edit interwiki table
  • Added permalink Toolbox link to Case skin
  • Activated Cite extension. See the links in the Toolbox ;)

• 2006-04-24
  • Graphviz graphs are now rendered with anti-aliasing

• 2006-04-16
  • Upgraded Google Maps extension to use version 2 of Google Maps API

• 2006-04-11
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.6.3

• 2006-04-08
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.6.2

• 2006-04-07
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.6.1

• 2006-04-05
  • Minor CSS updates
    • Fixed validation errors
    • Set overflow property in pre tag

• 2006-03-27
  • Fixed some issue with ImageMagick on the server
  • Removed Beta tag from site
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.7 to 1.5.8

• 2006-03-22
  • Special:WikiFeeds became live

• 2006-03-21
  • Interwiki link to EECS Wiki (uses EECS prefix)

• 2006-03-20
  • Actived Seealso extension
  • Activated footnote extension

• 2006-03-15
  • Moved to physicallly different server

• 2006-03-03
  • Removed page restriction patchset
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.6 to 1.5.7

• 2006-02-26
  • Made CSS changes for HTML headers

• 2006-02-13
  • Upgraded spam protected
    • Add blacklisted filters to CaseWiki:Spam blacklist

• 2006-01-19
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.5 to 1.5.6

• 2006-01-05
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.4 to 1.5.5

• 2006-01-03
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.3 to 1.5.4

• 2005-12-20
  • URLs are now nicely rewritten
    • In form /action/theAction/pageName
    • For example: http://wiki.case.edu/action/edit/Master_Plan

• 2005-12-19
  • Added Special:AJAXWatcher

• 2005-12-17
  • Updated spam prevention measures
  • For the record, anonymous edits (see below) were only disabled for a few hours

• 2005-12-12
  • Disabled anonymous edits because of repeated spam attacks
    • Will enable again once a better spam solution is in place

• 2005-12-04
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.2 to 1.5.3

• 2005-11-30
  • Fixed problems with some pages (e.g. Greg Szorc) not redirecting.
  • Fixed problem with old page revisions not displaying
  • Added Special:ListChangedArticles, but only accessible via special URLs

• 2005-11-07
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.1 to 1.5.2

• 2005-11-02
  • Made slight CSS change to accomodate IE rendering pages with overflowing content (like CAS)

• 2005-10-31
  • Upgraded WikiFeeds plugin.

• 2005-10-26
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.0 to 1.5.1

• 2005-10-20
  • Activated a list subpages parser hook extension

• 2005-10-15
  • Activated EasyTimeline extension

• 2005-10-13
  • Added Special:Touchgraph

• 2005-10-11
  • Upgraded from MediaWiki 1.5.0rc4 to MediaWiki 1.5.0 final!

• 2005-09-27
  • Fixed some broken special pages

• 2005-09-19
  • Enabled subpages in the main namespace

• 2005-09-15
  • Fix possible problem with infinite redirects during user login

• 2005-09-13
  • Minor performance enhancement so LDAP connection is only established during user login. This prevents the wiki from being slow when the LDAP servers are slow.
  • Removed Case web mail from Case referrals listing

• 2005-09-06
  • Moved uploads (images) to a network attached storage mount. Provides better backup and allows uploads directory to be accessed by multiple computers.
  • Changed login method from Pubcookie to CAS

• 2005-09-02
  • Fixed bug not allowed multiple Google Maps on one page

• 2005-08-29
  • Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.5rc4 from 1.5rc3

• 2005-08-25
  • Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.5rc3 from 1.5rc2

• 2005-08-23
  • Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.5rc1 from 1.5 beta 4
  • Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.5rc2

• 2005-08-20
  • Activated a spam blacklist extension. Should help with anonymous spamming on talk pages.

• 2005-08-16
  • The return of the edit link-- made a better anonymous talk namespace edits patch

• 2005-08-11
  • Made some skin and CSS changes (thanks Heidi Cool!)

• 2005-08-09
  • Printable pages now consist of just the page content. No navigation banners are included any more!

• 2005-08-02
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4

• 2005-07-29
  • Added a user edit count special page
  • GIS extension upgraded to CVS version

• 2005-07-28
  • New usernames have the first letter of every name/initial capitalized
    • Old usernames converted to new format
  • CaseWiki:Map enhanced
    • Clicking on a building will show a list of attractions inside that building
  • Activated Syntax Highlighting Extension

• 2005-07-26
  • Updated XML Date extension
    • Really cool features to come very soon
  • Anonymous edits on talk namespaces allowed

• 2005-07-22
  • Created Metadata namepsace
  • Created Metadata_Talk namespace
  • Reactivated XML Data extension
    • Only works in aforementioned namespaces

• 2005-07-21
  • RSS and ATOM feeds are starting to work again
  • Feeds items are geo-encoded on the item level
  • Fixed Google Map markers so they work again (1.5 conversion)
  • Search Results RSS/ATOM feeds are now available
  • Upgraded database tables to UTF8
  • ATOM Feed output is now version 1.0!
  • Improved page rendering time (SQL optimization is amazing)

• 2005-07-20
  • Activated the extended category browser feature
    • Categories will print a tree format. See Adelbert Hall for an example.
  • Added .cwru.edu referrals to listing
  • Fixed Nogomatch to work with 1.5

• 2005-07-19
  • Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3
    • E-mail support enabled!

• 2005-07-18
  • Activated an XML storage extension. See Help:XML for instructions.

• 2005-07-14
  • Fixed some potential spam issues with the automatic page referral rendering

• 2005-07-13
  • Discussion link is a red if the page doesn't exist
  • View Source link now appears on all pages
    • Allows anonymous viewers to see the source of pages if the pages aren't locked
  • Updates to the Google Maps Extension
    • Embed multiple maps on one page
    • Map multiple RSS feeds on one map

• 2005-07-08
  • Software upgrade to MediaWiki 1.4.6

• 2005-07-07
  • GeoURL now gets pinged with every geotagged entry in the wiki
  • The skin now outputs a default geotag element. The location is the oval in front of KSL. Geotagging pages will override this element.
  • Link to the category list is now part of the skin
  • Referrer list excludes all referrals from http://planet.case.edu

• 2005-07-06
  • Added a map of all geo-encoded wiki entries
    • Uses the new Google Maps API
    • Download an XML document with tagged entries at http://wiki.case.edu/misc/markers.php

• 2005-07-05
  • Page referrers re-coded
    • All .case.edu referrers will be displayed at the bottom of a topic
    • The referrer listing is now contained in a box to ease formatting

• 2005-06-30
  • Activated the GIS extension
    • Mapping has never been easier!

• 2005-06-27
  • Category RSS and ATOM feeds
    • When viewing a page in the Category namespace, the RSS and ATOM feeds for that page will be the newest articles to be classified as that category
    • You can also view a feed of the most recently changed articles in a category
    • See CaseWiki:RSS Feeds

• 2005-06-23
  • Minor skin updates

• 2005-06-22
  • Completely redesigned skin
    • Variable width
    • No tables

• 2005-06-20
  • Enabled math markup support
    • Uses TeX to render output
    • See MetaWikiPedia:Help:Formula for instructions

• 2005-06-17
  • First implementation of better RSS and ATOM feeds
    • The MediaWiki RSS and ATOM native feeds are worthless
    • Normal pages have feeds for the overall Case wiki
    • Pages in the User namespace have feeds for that particular user
    • More info on CaseWiki:RSS Feeds

• 2005-06-16
  • Made minor revisions to the skin to allow pages to display properly
  • Installed RSS extension. See Help:RSS Extension for usage instructions.
  • Removed password change option from User Preferences page

• 2005-06-15
  • Removed <style> css inclusion in skin template
    • Prevents main.css from being loaded more than once
  • Changed CSS so non-existant links are red
    • Mimics behavior of default MediaWiki skins

• 2005-06-13
  • Added RSS and ATOM feeds to skin template
  • Added Blog@Case referrers to the skin template
    • A listing of all unique referrals from the Blog@Case system will automatically be displayed at the bottom of every page.
    • Users can create links to topics in the Case Wiki through Blog@Case by simply surrounding the topic with double square brackets, as explained on Help:Contents#The Traditional Method.

• 2005-06-08
  • Support for the university's SSO system
  • Case skin support (thanks to Steve Cook for the initial skin design