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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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By Ral315

Fundraising notice enabled only for anonymous users

A recent change has prompted the splitting of Mediawiki:Sitenotice onto another message, Mediawiki:Anonnotice. The latter message is viewable only by anonymous users. The goal was to help prevent the edit wars that had occurred over a personal appeal for donations made by site founder Jimmy Wales. Many users felt that the donations link was obtrusive, and believed that the message would harm future fund drives. The compromise automatically hides the message from all logged-in users. The sitenotice will still be used for fundraising drives.

Last week in servers

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

  • 11 January — Installed srv71 through srv80, ten new servers hosted at the Florida datacenter.
  • 11 January — PHP upgraded to version 5.1.1 on various servers.
  • 12 January — Faulty code in SVG image rendering removed.
  • 15 January — English Wikiquote upload problem fixed.
  • 15 January — Semi-protection enabled on the Spanish Wikipedia and the Japanese Wikinews.


Also this week: A look back — Tim Ryan dismissed — Subjects defend Wikipedia — Tron dispute — Trademark registered — Steward election — ArbCom update — Wikipedia Day — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.

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