Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-12-03/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By ais523, 3 December 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 (r36195), 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

  • The user interface no longer gives a (nonfunctional) link to patrol a deleted page that has been visited from Special:Newpages. (r27941, bug 12143)
  • At least one, and possibly two, bugs related to a new preprocessor that caused strip markers (strings starting with UNIQ and ending with QINU) to show up in pages were fixed. (r27871, bug 12056) (r28004, bug 12154) (see related story)
  • A typo in the code caused links to pages which a user had set their preferences to mark as short or 'stub' pages (which should show up in dark brown) instead disappeared altogether; this has been fixed. (r27981, bug 12165)
  • Some invalid HTML in Special:Emailuser was fixed. (r27987, bug 12166)
  • A bug that caused the API to sometimes cause an "rvrevids" error when there was in fact no error has been fixed. (r28025, bug 12177)

New features

  • The form to enter the text of an email on Special:Emailuser now has the id "wpTextbox1" (the same ID as the edit box on an edit page), rather than no id; this makes it easier for user scripts to affect it in a logical manner. (r27868, bug 12082)

Changes to interface messages

  • Part of the hide/show code in MediaWiki:Common.js was removed, because it was erroneously trying to apply bug fixes intended for Internet Explorer to Firefox 3, causing the code to break on that browser. (bug 12157, [1])

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:

Gardner interview — Arbitration series — License compatibility — Staffing features — Software issues — WikiWorld — News and notes — In the news — WikiProject report — Features and admins — Technology report — Arbitration report
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