Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-02/Technology report
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Please keep in mind that features listed here may not be live on the English Wikipedia yet. Also, in general, features that do not affect the English Wikipedia, such as new extensions that are not enabled here, are not listed.
This page covers revisions up to r20946.
New features
Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature
26 March 2012
Studying German flagged revisions, French library agreement, German court case
12 April 2010
Financial statements, discussions, milestones
8 March 2010
BLP deletions cause uproar
25 January 2010
Flagged revisions petitions, image donations, brief news
28 December 2009
Vibber resigns, Staff office hours, Flagged Revs, new research and more
28 September 2009
WikiTrust, Azerbaijan-Armenia edit wars
31 August 2009
An extended look at how we got to flagged protection and patrolled revisions
31 August 2009
Misleading media storm over flagged revisions
31 August 2009
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
24 August 2009
New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews
25 May 2009
End of Encarta, flagged revisions poll, new image donation, and more
30 March 2009
Commons, conferences, and more
9 March 2009
Flagged Revisions, historical image discovery, and more
16 February 2009
Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia's future, WikiDashboard, and "wiki-snobs"
8 February 2009
Wikipedia in the news: Flagged Revisions, Internet Explorer add-on
31 January 2009
Jimbo requests that developers turn on Flagged Revisions
24 January 2009
News and notes: Flagged Revisions and permissions proposals, hoax, milestones
10 January 2009
Sighted revisions introduced on the German Wikipedia
12 May 2008
Page creation for unregistered users likely to be reenabled
29 October 2007
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
2 April 2007
The Seigenthaler incident: One year later
4 December 2006
Wikipedia in the news
2 October 2006
Single-user login, stable versioning planned soon
7 August 2006
- Special:Linksearch can now be used with any prefix (https://, ftp://, irc://, news://, mailto://, etc.). (T10324; r20561)
- Special:Protectedpages can now be sorted by namespace and protection type/level, and a minimum page length can be specified. (T11326; r20571, r20591)
- Special:Whatlinkshere can now be sorted by namespace. (T6624; r20616, r20627)
- An RSS feed for each database dump in each language has been created. It will be linked from the summary pages soon, and will be located in the "latest" subdirectory of each dump with the name
*-rss.xml. For example, the RSS feed for the English Wikipedia's enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 dump will be located at http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2-rss.xml. (r20710)
- Two new MediaWiki: messages, MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer and MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon have been created as a way to place (optionally different) footer text on the Special:Contributions page for anonymous users and logged-in users, similar to the way special text is placed at the bottom of IP talk pages. (T11397; r20720)
- To help with javascript and other programming, a new javascript variable
wgActionhas been added. The value of this variable is the action from the page's URL, defaulting to "view" when simply viewing an article. (T10421; r20754)
- Special pages dedicated to images (Special:Mostimages, Special:Uncategorizedimages, and Special:Unusedimages as of now) now display image galleries instead of image lists, as is done in categories. (T11069; r20788)
- A huge amount of work was done on Flagged Revisions and ConfirmEdit, and a new extension, Minimum Name Length was created, although neither are enabled on the English Wikipedia.
- The "mediawikiwiki:" interwiki prefix can now be used to link to http://www.mediawiki.org. (T11440; r20825)
Fixed bugs
- Fatal error no longer appears when entering an invalid name into Special:Listusers. (r20555)
- Users are now warned when uploading an image with an uppercase extension if one with the same lowercase extension exists or if uploading a scaled down version of an existing image. (T5069; r20563)
- The block log will now show expanded text instead of abbreviations for the block flags (i.e. "anonymous users only" instead of "anononly", "account creation disabled" instead of "nocreate", etc.) (r20583)
- If a page is both normally protected and cascade protected, the regular protection message will be shown when attempting to edit the page. (T11401; r20646)
- Special:Recentchangeslinked now displays a redlink for nonexistent target pages, instead of silently redirecting to the nonexistent page. (T7817; r20807)
- {{anchorencode:}} no longer transforms colons. (T10914; r20819)
- Special:Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning. (T4979; r20828)
- Special:Renameuser now doesn't allow renaming a user to an invalid username, and does allow renaming a user with an invalid username to a valid one. (T6939; r20841)
- The failed rollback message now parses the edit summary of the most recent edit, instead of displaying raw wikicode. (T11466; r20875)
Internationalization
Internationalization help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla.
Discuss this story
In light of the first sentence, could an addition of something like this be fair:
Mark Hurd 07:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]