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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

New features

  • Moving a protected page now protects the resulting redirect the same way. (r41227, bug 10527)
  • Administrators can now choose, when blocking a user, whether that user can edit their own talk page during the block. (r41248, bug 8440)
  • A prop=info query on the API now allows a query for a page's URL, and whether it is readable. (Although all pages on Wikipedia are readable, the same is not true for some private wikis.) (r41261, bug 15609)
  • A new API query prop=duplicates allows files (such as images) which are duplicates of a given file to be searched for. (r41306, bug 15653)
  • Special:ListUsers now shows each user's server edit count. (r41350, bug 15503)

Configuration changes

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.




Also this week:
  • Wikimedia UK
  • WikiWorld
  • News and notes
  • Features and admins
  • Technology report
  • Arbitration report

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