Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-06-25/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 live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.44.0-wmf.8 (f08e6b3), and changes with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.

Fixed bugs

Some mixes of <pre> tags and section headers no longer cause section editing to duplicate part of the page. (r23101, bug 10309)
Protecting a redirect now returns to the redirect itself, not to its _target. (r23304, bug 10344)

New features

[1] now shows the username of the new user who made the change. (r23075, bug 10306)
A new interface message MediaWiki:Revision-info-current now displays instead of MediaWiki:Revision-info when the current revision is shown in the history. (r23113, bug 9328)
The 'watch' action now uses AJAX when possible. (r23233, bug 10326)
Special:Contributions can now be filtered by month and year. (r23297, bug 516)

Other technology news

Google Earth now has support for parsing the {{coord}} template in Wikipedia database dumps, in addition to the previously supported {{coor title dm}} and {{coor at dm}} (and their d and dms versions) and {{coor dm}} inside an infobox. [2]

Ongoing news

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

Also this week: Board elections — RFA and open proxies — WikiWorld — News and notes — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration

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25 June 2007 (all comments)

Technology report

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==Special:Contributions/newbies==

Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the username of the new user who made the change. (r23075, bug 10306)

No it doesn't. Go to that link, no usernames. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 18:23, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Read the page. The change was made in revision r23075, but won't be live on Wikipedia until it's synchronised live. The note about the current live version is there for a reason. 86.134.91.23 22:09, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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