Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-01/Technology report
Technology report
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
New special pages created
A new special page, Special:Randomredirect, allows a user to visit a random redirect page. Added by Rob Church on 25 April, the page works in a similar fashion as Special:Random.
Another new page, Special:Unusedtemplates, allows users to find templates which are not transcluded on any other page.
Date of Caching
Bug #4327 was resolved by adding a timestamp to special pages which contain cached data. Pages like Special:Ancientpages will now display the time the data was last updated.
Last week in MediaWiki
- 25 April — More specific protection notice and interface editing notices added
- 27 April — Invalid XHTML fixed in image galleries
- 28 April — Spam blacklist circumvention message with multiple URL slashes fixed
- 29 April — Users now warned if a file uploaded with the same name has been previously deleted
- 29 April — New {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word added (current value: 48,320,697)
- 29 April — Bug #93, a parsing error, fixed
- Page protection and unprotection is now included in the revision history
- Watchlists now have a namespace selector
Last week in servers
Server-related events, problems, and changes included:
- 27 April — Mail services moved to bart
- 28 April — http://secure.wikimedia.org pointed to bart
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