Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-06-11/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 live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.44.0-wmf.8 (f08e6b3), and changes with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.
Fixed bugs
- A bug causing images to be deleted on Wikimedia Commons whenever a description page for an image with the same name was deleted on a different project (such as the English Wikipedia) has now been fixed. (This means that it's now safe for administrators to resume deletions under speedy deletion criterion I2.) (r22718, bug 10128)
- Editing section 0 of a page now shows the correct list of templates used on that page at the bottom of the screen. (r22779, bug 10149)
New features
- A new parser function, #titleparts, was added, to return the first few parts of a slash-separated subpage structure; for instance, {{#titleparts:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-06-11/Technology report|2}} is Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-06-11. (r22711, bug 6067)
- Two new special pages were added:
- Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, to find out which templates are most heavily used, (r22720, bug 10118)
- and Special:Uncategorizedtemplates, to list templates with no categories. (r22897, bug 8869)
- There is now an option to display all namespaces in Special:Newpages. (r22730, bug 9898)
- There is now a checkbox for administrators to watch a page at the same time as changing its protection level. (r22739, bug 9769)
- The user interface for Special:Preferences now shows an example of what setting a stub threshold looks like. (r22740, bug 9886)
- The what-links-here links on Special:Whatlinkshere itself can now be customized using user CSS. (r22757, bug 10145)
- "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" are now legal aliases for "DEFAULTSORT". (r22839, bug 5908)
- Administrators can now block a user from using Special:Emailuser. (r22816, bug 7997)
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.
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