Ideas for MediaWiki

A Loose collection of ideas about things MediaWiki could use

• Features
  • Prevent login for blocked users - would make sense for wikis where anons have restricted access.
  • More Info in XML-Dumps, warning on import:
    • License (wgRightsXXX)
    • MW Version
    • Installed extensions (at least parser functions and tag hooks, maybe some more)
    • relevant options (case-sensitivity of links, etc)
    • wiki base URL

• Options
  • Option to allow the displaytitle to be overwritten with anything.

• Internals
  • Automatically purging specific memcache entries when a given page is edite: map of page names -> array of cache keys.
  • Make Shared-Repos backend not require file access. SQL and HTTP should be enough. A pure HTTP backend would be waaaayyyy cool.