Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-10-06/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

Autoblocked users can again edit their own talk page (this was accidentally broken recently). (r41444, bug 15789)
Edits via the API now work if the page in question was deleted and undeleted since the edit sequence started. (r41649, bug 15647)
Imagemaps no longer force themselves onto a new line. (r41729, bug 14052)
Imagemaps now check for an impossible number of elements in a polygon's vertex list. (r41730, bug 15675)
Imagemaps in a situation where they would be scrollable now scroll correctly in IE7. (r41720, bug 9126)
Videos with the .ogv extension now thumbnail properly. (r41735, bug 15363)
If a non-admin tries to edit a page in the MediaWiki: namespace, the resulting error message no longer incorrectly states that they cannot edit pages at all. (r41737, bug 14246)

New features

When renaming an account, bureaucrats can now automatically recreate an account at the old name whilst performing the rename. (r41435, bug 15181) (reverted in r42756)
A new API query list=watchlistraw allows a user to determine which pages are on their watchlist. (r41647, bug 15768)
The API now understands that edit and move protections can have different expiries; note that this has led to some breaking changes in protection-related queries. (r41652, bug 15785)
The options at the top of Special:Recentchanges have been reorganised to use less space. (r41723, bug 3327)
Special:Recentchangeslinked can now be set to display only changes to transcluded pages and images (rather than also including linked pages). (r37927, bug 5872)

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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