Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-02-18/Technology report

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.1 (8e1947e), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.

Fixed bugs

The combination of parameters action=raw&templates=expand&section=section number to a page (meaning 'show wikitext for section section number with templates expanded') now actually works; previously templates were incorrectly not expanded in this case. (r30895, bug 12938)
CAPTCHAs now work correctly in Konqueror. (r30900, bug 4816)
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}, which is used by templates like {{lowercase}} to change the appearance of an article's title, now works during previews. (r30920, bug 13005)
Image maps (<imagemap>/{{#tag:imagemap|}}) can now link to external URLs that contain ampersands. (bug 11504)

New features

Links to redirects are now marked with class='mw-redirect'; this does not cause any change in their appearance by default, but allows the appearance of links to redirects to be customized in user CSS. (r30876, bug 12968)

Ongoing news

Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.


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