Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-02-11/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 1.44.0-wmf.6 (d77bde6), 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 tab indexing (the sequence with which fields are selected when using the keyboard to select fields in a form) for the deletion confirmation screen for images has been improved. (r30538, bug 12892)
The styling for a link to mark a page as patrolled has been fixed to prevent it bunching with other right-floated elements on the page (such as sisterproject boxes like {{Wiktionary}}). (r30651, bug 12857)

New features

The list=usercontribs API query now accepts multiple usernames; doing so will return contributions that were made by any of the listed users. (r30578, bug 12912)

Breaking changes

The list=categorymembers API query now accepts the parameter cmtitle, rather than cmcategory; cmtitle requires the Category: prefix at the start of the page name, whereas cmcategory didn't. cmcategory is now deprecated, and likely to be removed in early March. [1] (r30533, bug 12898)

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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