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

• Undeletion of pages now fails more gracefully during a database lock. ( r26768, bug 11343)
• When an anonymous or non-autoconfirmed user views a move action in a log, they no longer get the (revert) link that allows the move to be quickly undone (it previously appeared, but was nonfunctional). ( r26804, bug 11690)

New features

• An API 'allpages' query now allows sorting in reverse alphabetical order, and allows more than one page protection condition to be given at once. ( r26725, bug 11634)
• The administrator-only page Special:DeletedContributions now displays ( diff) links. ( r26711, bug 11606)
• Special:Whatlinkshere now prompts for a page to check links to rather than showing an error if no page is given. Consequently, it now appears on Special:Specialpages. ( r26820, bug 11649)

Ongoing news

• Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.