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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

  • The PHP and XML output of Special:Allmessages no longer incorrectly expands templates. (r32700, bug 13431)
  • Renaming a user now moves the logs of blocks and user right changes applied to that user to their new username. This does not apply retroactively to previously renamed users. (r32816, bug 7011)
  • JSON output from the API now correctly marks strings as strings even if they are the string representation of an integer. (r32820, bug 11633)
  • JSON callbacks from the API now allow square brackets. (r32822, bug 12136)

New features

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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