Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-11-17/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.4 (a8dd895), 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

CategoryTree no longer produces duplicate links for users without JavaScript enabled. (r43492, bug 15971)
The Image: namespace is now called File:. (r43639, bug 44)
The API now correctly indicates rate limits for users with higher limits for certain actions; for instance, rollbackers now see the number of rollbacks they can make in a minute as if they were rollbackers, rather than as if they were anons. (r43678, bug 12760)

New features

The JS-enhanced watchlist and recent changes now have the same layout. (r43672, bug 11728)
The API now indicates whether blocked users can edit their own talk page, on a query about blocks. (r43676, bug 16367)

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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