Consumer Rights Wiki:Changelog

This page contains a running log of changes to the wiki, organised by date.

Changelog

Added optional two-factor authentication (2FA), enable it under Special:AccountSecurity.
Replaced the custom site lockdown tool with the actively maintained upstream ProtectSite extension.
Restored Discord notifications for user page and user talk page activity.

Fixed a fatal error when searching terms that matched a file (e.g. "uk"), caused by a MediaWiki core bug in media handler caching.

"Mass rollback" link now appears directly in a user's tool-links bar on Special:Contributions.
Article feedback now also posts as a new section on the article's talk page.
"Give award" link now appears in the sidebar when viewing a User or User talk page.
Added a Toggleable "Your impact" panel on user pages (non-public) displaying total edits, last edited, longest edit streak, a 60-day activity chart, and how many views the articles you've edited have received. Available to enable in Special:Preferences.
Fixed award grant/revoke log entries sometimes incorrectly showing the staff member who performed the action as the recipient.
Tightened article feedback's rate limits.
User registrations no longer post to the wiki's Discord feed.
Various backend infra updates
General codebase tidy-up and updates to make contributing easier

Wiki upgraded to MediaWiki 1.46, bringing performance, compatibility, and security improvements across the board.
Staff can hand out awards/badges, which will appear at the bottom of Userpages.
Staff with the massrollback-manager permission can now revert every edit a user made within a chosen date range in one action, instead of undoing them page by page.
New special page lets staff instantly block editing and account creation for anyone below autoconfirmed in the event of sustained vandalism or spam.
Added a feedback button on articles and a pop-out Discord widget.
InstantCommons is now enabled, so media hosted on Wikimedia Commons can be used directly in articles without re-uploading it locally.
Added support for uploading OpenDocument Text (.odt) and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) files.
Added an "Are you sure you'd like to log out?" confirmation prompt.
Edits and file uploads are now checked against a maintained list of known spam domains and blocked automatically before they're saved.
Templates can no longer be edited by brand-new accounts.
Security patches applied to Cargo, EmbedVideo, and other extensions.
Added a mechanism to load minified custom CSS inline and site-wide, from customizations/css/.

Added temporary accounts (logged-out editors are now assigned a temporary username like ~2026-12345 instead of having their IP address shown publicly; going forward, IPs are hidden from recent changes and only visible to users with the appropriate permissions)
Added CloudflarePurge extension
- Fixed a caching issue where pages displayed outdated content for logged out users

Added new role superconfirmed. this role can delete pages, edit semi-protected pages, and remove notices from articles
Fixed a permission issue where all registered users could change content models by default

Added sitemap generation (index at /sitemap/sitemap-index-consumerrights.wiki.xml)

Added the WikiSEO and TextExtracts extensions to automatically generate SEO metadata for wiki pages

Added CirrusSearch and Elastica (OpenSearch 1.3.20)
Performance improvements
Patched the Vector main menu: sidebar now pinned for anonymous (logged-out) users
Set Vector 2022 default skin to light mode
Enabled automatic mobile view detection