Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-22/Technology report
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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Last week in MediaWiki software
New functionality
- Bad images no longer rendered in galleries. (Rob Church)
- Invalid usernames can now be renamed to valid names. (Brion Vibber)
Interface tweaks
- MediaWiki:Passwordremindertext now includes a parameter for the website's URL. (Rob Church)
Bug fixes
- Various double-escaping issues fixed. (Niklas Laxström)
- Magic word conflicts fixed. (Rob Church)
- Error message on Special:Confirmemail fixed. (Rob Church)
- Subtitle navigation works on redirect history pages. (Rob Church)
- Enforce the standard upper limit when accessing page histories. (Rob Church)
Last week in servers
- srv117 up; was accidentally uploaded as a duplicate srv116.
- WikiSpecies moved from species.wikipedia.org to species.wikimedia.org.
- Titles now allowed in SVG files.
Also this week: Wikistats — T.F.D. — M.A.N.I.A. — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.
