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This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that some changes described here have not yet gone 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

  • PDF file generation has been enabled for English Wikipedia articles (see related story).
  • The CommunityVoice extension is now enabled on the Usability wiki; it enables users to rate items on a 1-5 star scale. (See the Wikimedia blog post).
  • Diffs can now be fetched using the API. (r47890, bug 13209)
  • The current user's email address can be retrieved by uiprop=email in meta=userinfo. (r47705, bug 17626)


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I'm not sure, but i think the syntax for retrieving the current users email address should be: meta=userinfo and uiprop=email - for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=email . (doesn't work yet as api isn't at revision yet that included the feature). Bawolff (talk) 01:40, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The rev linked does state meta and not list. I've modified it based on that and your comment. I hope that's right. Thanks, §hepTalk 19:03, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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