Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-09/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By ais523, 9 July 2007

This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.13alpha (r36195), and changes with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.

Fixed bugs

New features

  • An (undo) link is now available for each edit on page histories, without going via the (diff) link first. (r23771, bug 1783)
  • A new API query prop=imageinfo has been implemented, to query for details about an image. (r23819, bug 9142)
  • It's now possible to query the size of the database server replication lag, using an API query for meta=siteinfo. (r23823, bug 10211)
  • A local page MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist was added for blacklisting spam links from just one Wikimedia project. (Adding spam links to the Meta blacklist, m:Spam blacklist, will blacklist spam links from all Wikimedia projects.) (r23849, bug 8492)

Configuration changes

Other technology news

  • 15:53 brion: lag problems on enwiki -- all slaves lagged (approx 3547 sec), but no apparent reason why
  • 15:56 brion: lag problem resolved. stop/start slave got them running again; presumably the connections broke due to the net problems but it thought they were still alive, so didn't reconnect

Ongoing news

  • Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla.


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