Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-06-05/Technology report
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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
[edit] Parser fixes
Brion Vibber has made various fixes to the parser in an attempt to remove the need for HTML Tidy, a software program that fixes HTML errors, but has various glitches. Many of the fixes involve problems with the parsing of extensions such as <ref>.
[edit] Last week in MediaWiki software
[edit] New functionality
- Smart edit summaries for redirect pages (i.e. "Redirecting to PAGENAME"). (Rob Church)
- Allow customisation of robot policies per-namespace. (Tim Starling)
- Add "edit based on this version" links to diff. views. (Jens Frank)
- Add job queue count to action=raw output on Special:Statistics. (Tim Starling)
{{#language:}}magic word added. For example,{{#language:es}}produces Español. (Rob Church)
[edit] Bug fixes
- Ensure that page links viewed after undeleting a page always appear as blue links. (Rob Church)
- Improve handling of large data sets when adding template links updates to the job queue. (Brion Vibber)
[edit] Last week in servers
- Portal namespace conflicts fixed on Chinese Wikipedia
- bart added to installation group, allowing it to receive software updates with other servers.
- New motherboard installed on srv3, new drive and OS installed on srv119
- "Wikipedia Incubator" created as alternative to initially keeping new languages on Meta.
- 19 new Wikisources added.
- New drive and OS installed on srv51.
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