Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-08/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Catherine, 8 May 2006

Last week in MediaWiki software

New functionality

Optional comments are now allowed to be associated with undeletion of pages or revisions -- see screenshot. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:3309)
The contributions limit for Special:Renameuser is increased to 200,000. The largest existing account is User:Rambot, on the English Wikipedia, with 131,511 edits so it is not likely users will have limit problems in the near future. (Tim Starling)
Special:Mypage, and Special:Mytalk can now take arguments such as "?action=history" in their URLs. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:5284)
A third parameter, $3, was added to MediaWiki:Rcnote, allowing the current date and time to be passed in the user's preferred format. (Rob Church)
New magic word __NEWSECTIONLINK__ was introduced, which allows users to add a "new section" link (shown as a tab in Monobook) to pages which aren't talk pages. (Rob Church)

Interface tweaks

Special:Confirmemail rewritten to be more intuitive. (Rob Church)
[[Special:Userlist]] created as a redirect to Special:Listusers. (Rob Church)
Canonical (i.e. English) image namespace name allowed on [[MediaWiki:Bad_image_list|Bad Image List]]. (Rob Church)
"Bureaucrat log" renamed "rights log". (Rob Church)
Certain special pages, such as Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now preserve parameters from the request string when redirecting. (Rob Church)
"Return to" link on Blocked Page message fixed, so the user is returned to the article they attempted to edit. (Rob Church)

Bug fixes

SQL causing incorrect listings in Special:BrokenRedirects fixed. (Rob Church)
Some issues with transcluded special pages fixed. (Rob Church)
<title> tags in SVG files allowed. (Rob Church)
[[Special:Recentchangeslinked]] and [[Special:Mostlinked]] updated to handle non-existent target pages appropriately. (Rob Church)
Handling of underscores in usernames on [[Special:Listusers]] fixed. (Rob Church)
"Table full" errors on update of profiling table fixed. (Brion Vibber)
Naked HTML output caused by nested <li> links fixed. (Ashar Voultoiz)
Pages linked from the MediaWiki namespace no longer counted on [[Special:Wantedpages]]. (Rob Church)
Unstable parser issues on [[Special:Preferences]] cleaned up. (Rob Church)

Last week in servers

Fifteen new servers (srv81-96) were set up and put into rotation this week; the hardware team were busy with all the intensive work and configuration changes that were required.

Other server-related events, problems, and changes included: