Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-31/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.3 (b4aac1f), 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

Use of the CSS markup !important is no longer broken by automatic conversion of spaces to non-breaking spaces. (r32377, bug 11874)
Deleting or creating a talk page now correctly turns its link on the corresponding article page red or blue respectively to the view of anonymous users. (r32390, bug 344)
Image captions are now no longer confused with image dimensions in some cases, such as an image caption ending in 'px'. (This fix led to the Wikipedia:ClickFix problem, where image dimensions written with pxpx are no longer valid.) (r32394, bug 13436)
API queries for list=users now work correctly even when all the usernames specified are actually IP addresses. (r32476, bug 13517)
API output in YAML no longer has trailing spaces. (r32485, bug 11719)
The upload form no longer appears blank when the user does not specify a filename but tries to upload anyway. (r32569, bug 13556)

New features

The software now correctly decodes headings in the section=new 'Headline/Title' box when the user accidentally types the == signs in manually, even though they are automatically provided by the software. (r32376, bug 1600)
Confirmation emails now have a link to reject confirmation, as well as a link to carry out confirmation. (r32499, bug 13450)
Special:Upload now states what the maximum allowed file size to upload is. (r32516, bug 13490)
The API action=parse now allows a revision ID to be specified as a parameter to the query. (r32541, bug 13544)

Other technology news

All Wikimedia wikis except Commons now have upload of images, and other files, restricted to autoconfirmed users (those with an account over 4 days old). (bug 12556)

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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