Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-08-27/Technology report

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By ais523, 27 August 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 to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.

Fixed bugs

  • Headings are now numbered correctly in Special:Statistics if the option to 'Auto-number headings' in a user's preferences is turned on. (r25040, bug 9026)
  • The category tree of subcategories that appears on category pages now works correctly in situations where the category's name is of the form Category:languagecode:name. (r25130, bug 10883)
  • Also, the category tree links now produce a more informative error message when they can't load the information they need for some reason. (r25135, bug 11015)
  • The MediaWiki messages used to display EXIF information for images again can be formatted as wikitext rather than being raw text (this feature existed before, but was removed by mistake). (r25148, bug 11065)
  • A link to the deletion confirmation page for an image (which would only be usable by administrators) now accepts &wpReason=reason in the URL to give a default deletion reason when the confirmation page is opened. (r25191, bug 11079)

New features

  • 'My preferences' now has a keyboard shortcut, consisting of some combination of modifier keys (depending on the browser used) and the 9 key. Likewise, a keyboard shortcut for the 'upload' button when uploading an image or other file has been added (modifier keys and s). (r25080, bug 5206)

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 or use Betawiki.


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