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 'Compare selected versions' buttons are now disabled on pages with only 1 version. ( r28390, bug 11221)
• The option to view all namespaces on Special:Newpages now actually works; previously it only displayed the article namespace. ( r28524, bug 12031)
• Selecting the option to hide patrolled pages on Special:Newpages no longer causes the number of pages shown on each screen of results to reset. ( r28524, bug 12283)

New features

• It's now possible for administrators to protect a page even if it doesn't exist. ( r28385, bug 2919)

• Special:Protectedtitles was also added to track these pages. ( r28506)

• MediaWiki:Unusedimagestext now supports wikitext. ( r28527, bug 12063)
• Special:Upload now lists which file types are allowed. ( r28530, no associated bug tracker entry)

Configuration changes

• The prefixes WP: and Wikipedia: are now 'aliases', meaning that they mean the same thing. This means that all shortcut redirects of the form WP:POST have been moved to the Wikipedia: namespace, and now have names like Wikipedia:POST (although because WP: and Wikipedia: are now aliases, typing WP:POST will still work). Likewise, WT: is now an alias for Wikipedia talk:. ( bug 6313)

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.