Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-13/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.6 (d77bde6), 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 list=search query now returns the titles of the pages returned by the search engine, rather than null strings. (r31522, bug 10908)
The audio on some videos with a high frame rate now plays back properly in the Cortado Java-based player. (r31527, bug 13071)
Redlinked MediaWiki:-space messages associated with extensions (such as MediaWiki:Imagemap unrecognised shape) now show the correct content on views and edits of the message. (r31547, bug 13019)
Links autogenerated by syntax such as ISBN 0123456789 now have more readable URLs. (r31562, bug 13247)
It's now possible to save a change to a page containing <NOINCLUDE> (in allcaps). (r31564, bug 13253)
__HIDDENCAT__ now only has an effect on category pages (previously it would categorise non-category pages into Category:Hidden categories). (r31393, bug 13174)
The error message "You do not have permission to do that" now only comes up for rollback when the user actually does not have permission to perform an action, not in other cases when the action might fail (the edit has already been rolled back by someone else, or the user is the only one who edited the page). (r31588, bug 13110)
An article with hidden categories but no non-hidden categories no longer displays an empty gray box at the bottom. (r31731, bug 13234)

New feature

A new parameter xmldoublequote is available in the API, for all results in XML format; it causes all attributes and content in the XML output to be double-escaped. (r31525, bug 11401)

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.


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