Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-01/Technology report
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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
New special pages created
A new special page, Special:Randomredirect, allows a user to visit a random redirect page. Added by Rob Church on April 25, the page works in a similar fashion as Special:Random.
Another new page, Special:Unusedtemplates, allows users to find templates which are not transcluded on any other page.
Date of Caching
Bug #4327 was resolved by adding a timestamp to special pages which contain cached data. Pages like Special:Ancientpages will now display the time the data was last updated.
Last week in MediaWiki
- April 25 — More specific protection notice and interface editing notices added
- April 27 — Invalid XHTML fixed in image galleries
- April 28 — Spam blacklist circumvention message with multiple URL slashes fixed
- April 29 — Users now warned if a file uploaded with the same name has been previously deleted
- April 29 — New {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word added (current value: 7,302,309)
- April 29 — Bug #93, a parsing error, fixed
- Page protection and unprotection is now included in the revision history
- Watchlists now have a namespace selector
Last week in servers
Server-related events, problems, and changes included:
- April 27 — Mail services moved to bart
- April 28 — http://secure.wikimedia.org pointed to bart
Also this week: Politician resigns — M.A.N.I.A. — Jimbo honored — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.
