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
The user interface no longer gives a (nonfunctional) link to patrol a deleted page that has been visited from
Special:Newpages. (
r27941,
bug 12143)
At least one, and possibly two, bugs related to a new preprocessor that caused strip markers (strings starting with UNIQ and ending with QINU) to show up in pages were fixed. (
r27871,
bug 12056) (
r28004,
bug 12154) (see
related story)
A typo in the code caused links to pages which a user had set their preferences to mark as short or 'stub' pages (which should show up in dark brown) instead disappeared altogether; this has been fixed. (
r27981,
bug 12165)
A bug that caused the API to sometimes cause an "rvrevids" error when there was in fact no error has been fixed. (
r28025,
bug 12177)
New features
The form to enter the text of an email on
Special:Emailuser now has the id "wpTextbox1" (the same ID as the edit box on an edit page), rather than no id; this makes it easier for user scripts to affect it in a logical manner. (
r27868,
bug 12082)
Changes to interface messages
Part of the hide/show code in
MediaWiki:Common.js was removed, because it was erroneously trying to apply bug fixes intended for Internet Explorer to Firefox 3, causing the code to break on that browser. (
bug 12157,
[1])
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.
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
The user interface no longer gives a (nonfunctional) link to patrol a deleted page that has been visited from
Special:Newpages. (
r27941,
bug 12143)
At least one, and possibly two, bugs related to a new preprocessor that caused strip markers (strings starting with UNIQ and ending with QINU) to show up in pages were fixed. (
r27871,
bug 12056) (
r28004,
bug 12154) (see
related story)
A typo in the code caused links to pages which a user had set their preferences to mark as short or 'stub' pages (which should show up in dark brown) instead disappeared altogether; this has been fixed. (
r27981,
bug 12165)
A bug that caused the API to sometimes cause an "rvrevids" error when there was in fact no error has been fixed. (
r28025,
bug 12177)
New features
The form to enter the text of an email on
Special:Emailuser now has the id "wpTextbox1" (the same ID as the edit box on an edit page), rather than no id; this makes it easier for user scripts to affect it in a logical manner. (
r27868,
bug 12082)
Changes to interface messages
Part of the hide/show code in
MediaWiki:Common.js was removed, because it was erroneously trying to apply bug fixes intended for Internet Explorer to Firefox 3, causing the code to break on that browser. (
bug 12157,
[1])
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.
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