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Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Last week in MediaWiki software

Enhancements

  • Run link table updates when importing pages [Brion Vibber]
  • Update Special:Recentchanges and the import log when importing pages [Brion Vibber]
  • List pages created after import [Brion Vibber]
  • Link to page histories in Special:Newpages [Rob Church]
  • Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist [Rob Church]
  • Introduce {{formatnum:}} magic word [Niklas Laxström]
  • Enforce bad image list in categories [Brion Vibber]
  • Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage [Rob Church]
  • Preserve language selections in the mode switch link on Special:Userlogin [Rob Church]
  • Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it [Rob Church]

Bug fixes

  • Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing [Rob Church]
  • Fix paging links in Special:Prefixindex [Rob Church]
  • Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}} [Rob Church]
  • Respect page existence on Special:Shortpages [Rob Church]

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