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Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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By Catherine Munro

Last week in MediaWiki software

New functionality

  • Optional comments are now allowed to be associated with undeletion of pages or revisions -- see screenshot. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:3309)
  • The contributions limit for Special:Renameuser is increased to 200,000. The largest existing account is User:Rambot, on the English Wikipedia, with 131,511 edits so it is not likely users will have limit problems in the near future. (Tim Starling)
  • Special:Mypage, and Special:Mytalk can now take arguments such as "?action=history" in their URLs. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:5284)
  • A third parameter, $3, was added to MediaWiki:Rcnote, allowing the current date and time to be passed in the user's preferred format. (Rob Church)
  • New magic word __NEWSECTIONLINK__ was introduced, which allows users to add a "new section" link (shown as a tab in Monobook) to pages which aren't talk pages. (Rob Church)

Interface tweaks

  • Special:Confirmemail rewritten to be more intuitive. (Rob Church)
  • [[Special:Userlist]] created as a redirect to Special:Listusers. (Rob Church)
  • Canonical (i.e. English) image namespace name allowed on [[MediaWiki:Bad_image_list|Bad Image List]]. (Rob Church)
  • "Bureaucrat log" renamed "rights log". (Rob Church)
  • Certain special pages, such as Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now preserve parameters from the request string when redirecting. (Rob Church)
  • "Return to" link on Blocked Page message fixed, so the user is returned to the article they attempted to edit. (Rob Church)

Bug fixes

  • SQL causing incorrect listings in Special:BrokenRedirects fixed. (Rob Church)
  • Some issues with transcluded special pages fixed. (Rob Church)
  • <title> tags in SVG files allowed. (Rob Church)
  • [[Special:Recentchangeslinked]] and [[Special:Mostlinked]] updated to handle non-existent target pages appropriately. (Rob Church)
  • Handling of underscores in usernames on [[Special:Listusers]] fixed. (Rob Church)
  • "Table full" errors on update of profiling table fixed. (Brion Vibber)
  • Naked HTML output caused by nested <li> links fixed. (Ashar Voultoiz)
  • Pages linked from the MediaWiki namespace no longer counted on [[Special:Wantedpages]]. (Rob Church)
  • Unstable parser issues on [[Special:Preferences]] cleaned up. (Rob Church)

Last week in servers

Fifteen new servers (srv81-96) were set up and put into rotation this week; the hardware team were busy with all the intensive work and configuration changes that were required.

Other server-related events, problems, and changes included:

  • dryas taken out of rotation to make a synchronous dump for zedler.
  • mailgraph installed on goeje.
  • toolserver replication user and tunnel created for use on henbane.
  • url host for wikimedianz-l list fixed.
  • asw3's switchport configured so new machines will work.
  • redirected http://ticket.wikimedia.org/ to secure server.
  • will reinstalled.
  • large and unused x-moz log disabled.


Also this week: Rankings update — M.A.N.I.A. — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.

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Actually another bot, D6, was the most prolific editor as of March 11, according to Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 22:35, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, that's apparently just article edits. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 22:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]


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