This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.2 (ce9d259), 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.
When a new section of a page is created using the '+' tab, the edit summary no longer has to be identical to the section header; the exact form of the new automatic summary can be customized by admins via
MediaWiki:Newsectionsummary. (
r25573,
bug 10836)
The error message
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext that displays when a user tries to edit a page is now given a parameter that allows that message to distinguish whether the page was protected or semi-protected. (
r25713,
bug 11211)
Two extra parameters are now passed to
MediaWiki:Cantcreateaccount-text, which allow that message to display information about the block that is preventing the account being created (the block reason and blocking administrator). (
r25714,
bug 9611)
Configuration changes
The
mw:Extension:OggHandler extension has been enabled on the English Wikipedia; the extension allows audio and video in the Ogg Theora, Vorbis, Speex and FLAC formats to be added to articles in much the same way as images, and will try various methods of playback for such files depending on what a user's browser supports. The syntax to include audio and/or video is [[Image:filename]], the same syntax as for images, and options can be given in a similar way. Video and audio templates have been changed to the new format, so there might be some technical difficulties for the next few days. For more information, see
this mailing list post.
Other technology news
A workaround has been added to the sitewide JavaScript (
MediaWiki:Common.js) that improves the display of some transparent
PNG images on
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6; without the workaround, the images display with opaque backgrounds on those browsers. In order to completely resolve PNG display issues in Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer users are encouraged to
upgrade to version 7 or
use a different browser such as Firefox.
Ongoing news
Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See
m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
bugzilla or use
Betawiki.
This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.2 (ce9d259), 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.
When a new section of a page is created using the '+' tab, the edit summary no longer has to be identical to the section header; the exact form of the new automatic summary can be customized by admins via
MediaWiki:Newsectionsummary. (
r25573,
bug 10836)
The error message
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext that displays when a user tries to edit a page is now given a parameter that allows that message to distinguish whether the page was protected or semi-protected. (
r25713,
bug 11211)
Two extra parameters are now passed to
MediaWiki:Cantcreateaccount-text, which allow that message to display information about the block that is preventing the account being created (the block reason and blocking administrator). (
r25714,
bug 9611)
Configuration changes
The
mw:Extension:OggHandler extension has been enabled on the English Wikipedia; the extension allows audio and video in the Ogg Theora, Vorbis, Speex and FLAC formats to be added to articles in much the same way as images, and will try various methods of playback for such files depending on what a user's browser supports. The syntax to include audio and/or video is [[Image:filename]], the same syntax as for images, and options can be given in a similar way. Video and audio templates have been changed to the new format, so there might be some technical difficulties for the next few days. For more information, see
this mailing list post.
Other technology news
A workaround has been added to the sitewide JavaScript (
MediaWiki:Common.js) that improves the display of some transparent
PNG images on
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6; without the workaround, the images display with opaque backgrounds on those browsers. In order to completely resolve PNG display issues in Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer users are encouraged to
upgrade to version 7 or
use a different browser such as Firefox.
Ongoing news
Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See
m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
bugzilla or use
Betawiki.
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