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 total numbers of articles and subcategories in a category are now displayed correctly. (
r32085,
bug 1212)
When an invalid title is given to an API query, the rest of the query now continues as normal. (
r32109,
bug 13390)
There is a new special page
Special:FileDuplicateSearch that allows you to search for all images which are completely identical to a given image (that is, same format, pixel-identical, same metadata, etc.). (
r32180,
bug 1459)
Other changes
The eiredirect option to the embeddedin API query has been removed, because it didn't actually make any difference to the query's results. (
r32125,
bug 13418)
A category table is currently being added to the Wikimedia databases; when it is complete, it will allow various category-related bugs to be fixed (mostly relating to counting the number of items in a category correctly). (
bug 13326http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13326)
The search feature on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis has been synchronised with the search feature used by most small MediaWiki wikis. As a result, several bugs have been fixed and features have been added to the search form (for instance, a search within the image namespace will now display the images as well as the text on the image pages).
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 total numbers of articles and subcategories in a category are now displayed correctly. (
r32085,
bug 1212)
When an invalid title is given to an API query, the rest of the query now continues as normal. (
r32109,
bug 13390)
There is a new special page
Special:FileDuplicateSearch that allows you to search for all images which are completely identical to a given image (that is, same format, pixel-identical, same metadata, etc.). (
r32180,
bug 1459)
Other changes
The eiredirect option to the embeddedin API query has been removed, because it didn't actually make any difference to the query's results. (
r32125,
bug 13418)
A category table is currently being added to the Wikimedia databases; when it is complete, it will allow various category-related bugs to be fixed (mostly relating to counting the number of items in a category correctly). (
bug 13326http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13326)
The search feature on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis has been synchronised with the search feature used by most small MediaWiki wikis. As a result, several bugs have been fixed and features have been added to the search form (for instance, a search within the image namespace will now display the images as well as the text on the image pages).
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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