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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 some changes described here have not yet gone 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

New features

  • PDF file generation has been enabled for English Wikipedia articles (see related story).
  • The CommunityVoice extension is now enabled on the Usability wiki; it enables users to rate items on a 1-5 star scale. (See the Wikimedia blog post).
  • Diffs can now be fetched using the API. (r47890, bug 13209)
  • The current user's email address can be retrieved by uiprop=email in meta=userinfo. (r47705, bug 17626)