Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-02-19/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Simetrical, 19 February 2007

New features

Special:Protectedpages should now update in real time, rather than being cached. (Andrew Garrett, r19941)

On Special:Log, the log types in the drop-down menu will now be sorted alphabetically. (Ashar Voultoiz, r19980)

Euros and pounds should now be treated as currency by sortable tables. (Brion Vibber, r19989)

Irrelevant options on Special:Blockip will now be hidden depending on whether the blocking user has entered a username, IP address, or IP range. (Brion Vibber, r19997)

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.


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