Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-30/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.2 (8fd6c9c), and changes with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.

Fixed bugs

An API query for the imageinfo of more than one image now returns each image's information once, rather than re-returning the information for earlier images in the information for later images. (r24372, bug 10662)
A bug preventing the checkbox used by administrators to move-protect pages without protecting them from edits working properly in all browsers was fixed. (r24419, bug 10732)
The 'delete' link for old versions of an image now only appears for administrators (before, the link appeared for all users but didn't work except for administrators). (r24432, bug 10741)

New features

It's now possible to provide an edit summary when reverting an image to a previous version. (r24439, bug 10739)
Several enhancements were made to the API: (r24453, [1])
- The query list=search now allows for full text searches (like the 'Search' option of the search box).
- The query list=allusers now allows returning and filtering by user groups (such as administrator and bureaucrat). (bug 10684)
- There was also a breaking change to the output of prop=revisions, that removed a duplicate pageid in the output.

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: From the editor — Citizendium analysis and response — Admin resigns — WikiWorld — In the news — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration