Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-11-12/Technology report

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By ais523, 12 November 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 necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.13alpha (r36113), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.

Fixed bugs

New features

  • Special:Newpages can now be filtered by logged-in status of the creating user, bot status of the creating user, and whether the new page has been patrolled. (Only the bot/nonbot filter is currently relevant on the English Wikipedia.) (r27204, bug 1401)

Other technology news

  • The Siberian Wikipedia (formerly at http://ru-sib.wikipedia.org/wiki/) was deleted entirely following this discussion on meta: (it had previously only been closed and locked, but due to the deletion its URL now cannot be loaded at all, even for reading). This is somewhat unusual; normally, when a project is closed, it is locked but allowed to continue in read-only mode. (bug 11680)

Ongoing news

  • Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.
Also this week:

Page creation redux — WikiWorld — News and notes — In the news — WikiProject report — Features and admins — Technology report — Arbitration report
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