This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily 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.
Fixed bugs
Width calculation of a
<gallery> tag when the widths= option is given has been improved. (
r25822,
bug 11321)
A bug involving
Special:BrokenRedirects that showed redirects pointing to a target that they in fact did not point to has been fixed. (
r25843,
bug 7890)
When the source language on a <source> tag is not given entirely in lowercase, this now no longer causes incorrect uppercase characters to appear in the class name of the generated content. (
r25873,
bug 11351)
New features
An
API query for the members of a category can now be sorted in reverse alphabetical or reverse chronological order (previously only forward alphabetical and chronological sort orders were supported). (
r25726,
bug 11275)
The API now allows an image's metadata to be queried. (
r25812,
bug 11308)
The 'Return to' link that appears in some error messages (for instance, when a non-admin tries to edit a protected page) now no longer incorrectly links to
Main Page. (
r25863,
bug 11342)
Configuration changes
Some more pages have been added to
robots.txt, to instruct search engines not to visit or index them. In addition to the pages previously excluded (subpages of
WP:AFD,
WP:VFD,
WP:MFD, and
WP:PT, but not the pages themselves, and also
WP:CP and its subpages), six more groups of subpages have been
excluded from being visited or indexed by search engines:
There is currently a bug with image thumbnailing that's affecting large numbers of images, causing them to not display in pages. The bug was caused at least partly by a server running out of disk space; system administrators are currently trying to fix the problem. As a workaround in the meantime, if you come across an image that isn't working,
purging the server cache of the image's image description page often solves the problem for that image. (For more information, see
this mailing list post.)
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 necessarily 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.
Fixed bugs
Width calculation of a
<gallery> tag when the widths= option is given has been improved. (
r25822,
bug 11321)
A bug involving
Special:BrokenRedirects that showed redirects pointing to a target that they in fact did not point to has been fixed. (
r25843,
bug 7890)
When the source language on a <source> tag is not given entirely in lowercase, this now no longer causes incorrect uppercase characters to appear in the class name of the generated content. (
r25873,
bug 11351)
New features
An
API query for the members of a category can now be sorted in reverse alphabetical or reverse chronological order (previously only forward alphabetical and chronological sort orders were supported). (
r25726,
bug 11275)
The API now allows an image's metadata to be queried. (
r25812,
bug 11308)
The 'Return to' link that appears in some error messages (for instance, when a non-admin tries to edit a protected page) now no longer incorrectly links to
Main Page. (
r25863,
bug 11342)
Configuration changes
Some more pages have been added to
robots.txt, to instruct search engines not to visit or index them. In addition to the pages previously excluded (subpages of
WP:AFD,
WP:VFD,
WP:MFD, and
WP:PT, but not the pages themselves, and also
WP:CP and its subpages), six more groups of subpages have been
excluded from being visited or indexed by search engines:
There is currently a bug with image thumbnailing that's affecting large numbers of images, causing them to not display in pages. The bug was caused at least partly by a server running out of disk space; system administrators are currently trying to fix the problem. As a workaround in the meantime, if you come across an image that isn't working,
purging the server cache of the image's image description page often solves the problem for that image. (For more information, see
this mailing list post.)
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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