Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-03-12/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Simetrical, 12 March 2007

New features

The sizes of old revisions are now displayed in page histories. (River Tarnell, bug 1723, r20221)

When visiting Special:Contributions directly, without any username provided, the user will now be given a form asking for a username (or to search for contributions of new accounts) instead of being given an error message. Also, the same form will appear at the top of Special:Contributions for any user, allowing the viewer to switch to other users' contributions easily. (Sui Min and Raimond Spekking; bug 9009; r20164, r20226, et al.)

Special:Popularpages will now show pages from any content namespace, not just the main namespace. (Some wikis have "content" namespaces that aren't the main namespace, such as the English Wikibooks' "Cookbook" namespace.) Special:Popularpages is not enabled on the English Wikipedia. (patch by Jim R. Wilson, bug 9231, r20275)

Special:Log/block, /delete, and /protect will now have links next to each entry to unblock, undelete, or change protection level, respectively. (Raimond Spekking and Sui Min, bug 6997 and bug 9117, r20293)

When viewing a diff of multiple revisions (such as this), clicking "undo" will now undo all the edits covered by the diff, not just the last. (Aaron Schulz, bug 8133, r20317)

After discussion on Wikitech-l, the addition of a checkered background behind transparent parts of images on image pages (as is common in image editors to distinguish transparent from white) was reversed. Users can still add it to their own stylesheets manually. (Erik Moeller, r20340)

Fixed bugs

Underlining in backlinks for references will now be immediately under the letter, not at the bottom of the entire line, for those with underlining enabled for links. (Raimond Spekking, bug 6906, r20190)

A coding error made in refactoring a function was fixed. The error could have led to error messages, and possibly the failure of either limitations of actions per user per unit time (e.g., a limited number of account creations per IP address per hour) or exemptions from such limitations. (Patch by Rob Church, bug 9216, r20210)

Usernames that look like IPv6 addresses are no longer allowed. MediaWiki does not yet support IPv6, but it probably will at some point in the indefinite future, at which point this will prevent conflicts. Standard IPv4 addresses have been invalid as usernames for a long time. (River Tarnell, r20242)

Page titles (and, therefore, user names) can no longer contain three consecutive tildes (~~~). They can therefore no longer interfere with the signature/date syntax. (Brion Vibber, bug 9223, r20274)

ImageMap tags will now work correctly with multiple polygons. (Brion Vibber, bug 9236, r20298)

Internationalization

Some updates were made to non-English messages, specifically:

Internationalization help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to Mediazilla.


Also this week: Paid editing — 10 things — Blog aggregator — WikiWorld — News and notes — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration

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