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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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By Ral315

New special pages created

A new special page, Special:Randomredirect, allows a user to visit a random redirect page. Added by Rob Church on 25 April, the page works in a similar fashion as Special:Random.

Another new page, Special:Unusedtemplates, allows users to find templates which are not transcluded on any other page.

Date of Caching

Bug #4327 was resolved by adding a timestamp to special pages which contain cached data. Pages like Special:Ancientpages will now display the time the data was last updated.

Last week in MediaWiki

  • 25 April — More specific protection notice and interface editing notices added
  • 27 April — Invalid XHTML fixed in image galleries
  • 28 April — Spam blacklist circumvention message with multiple URL slashes fixed
  • 29 April — Users now warned if a file uploaded with the same name has been previously deleted
  • 29 April — New {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word added (current value: 48,300,781)
  • 29 April — Bug #93, a parsing error, fixed
  • Page protection and unprotection is now included in the revision history
  • Watchlists now have a namespace selector

Last week in servers

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:


Also this week: Politician resigns — M.A.N.I.A. — Jimbo honored — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.

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