Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08/Technology report
Technology report
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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 1.44.0-wmf.8 (f08e6b3), 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
- Several syntax errors were corrected in Wikimedia's robots.txt file; these errors caused some search engines to ignore some of the instructions in that file (such as the instruction not to index AfD). (bug 11508; fixed with a configuration change)
- The rvendid parameter to the API (example) now works correctly. (r26315, bug 11534)
- Links in edit summaries no longer sometimes mistakenly continue outside the edit summary and into the rest of the page they're on. (r26409, bug 11560)
- The 'you have new messages' bar now appears for anonymous users when and only when they have a new message (see related story). (r26357, bug 9213)
New features
- A new interface message MediaWiki:Loginstart has been added that displays at the start of the login screen. (r26477, bug 11574)
Other technology news
- The Wolof Wiktionary was reopened this week. It had previously been closed, but the information in closed (to be precise, locked in read-only mode) wikis is retained, allowing them to be reopened. (bug 11512)
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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