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
An obscure problem with diffs was finally tracked down and (hopefully) fixed this week; it occasionally caused corrupted output from the diff engine. The problem turned out to be a version mismatch between the executable and operating system on some specific Wikimedia servers. (
T11533 and many duplicates; was fixed without changing the code (just the executable), so no version number)
Some actions now work correctly with respect to some pages whose name starts with / (such as
Template:/doc). (
r33742,
bug 13822)
The drop-down search suggestion box (enabled this week) now works in non-Monobook-based skins. (
r33759,
bug 13824)
New features
A range of new mathematical functions was added to {{#expr:}}: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, exp, ln, abs, floor, trunc, ceil, ^. The constants pi and e were also added. (
r33780,
bug 13216)
The API now accepts prop=categoryinfo queries, which queries information such as a category's size. (
r33914,
bug 13735)
A warning is now given when uploading an image with the same name as an image on Commons. (
r33972,
bug 889)
Configuration changes
Some HTTP cookies are now marked
HTTPOnly; this reduces the effects that certain types of
cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (if any exist) would have if they were exploited.
The search box now suggests search terms. (There is an option to turn this behaviour off; see the 'Search' tab of
Special:Preferences.)
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
An obscure problem with diffs was finally tracked down and (hopefully) fixed this week; it occasionally caused corrupted output from the diff engine. The problem turned out to be a version mismatch between the executable and operating system on some specific Wikimedia servers. (
T11533 and many duplicates; was fixed without changing the code (just the executable), so no version number)
Some actions now work correctly with respect to some pages whose name starts with / (such as
Template:/doc). (
r33742,
bug 13822)
The drop-down search suggestion box (enabled this week) now works in non-Monobook-based skins. (
r33759,
bug 13824)
New features
A range of new mathematical functions was added to {{#expr:}}: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, exp, ln, abs, floor, trunc, ceil, ^. The constants pi and e were also added. (
r33780,
bug 13216)
The API now accepts prop=categoryinfo queries, which queries information such as a category's size. (
r33914,
bug 13735)
A warning is now given when uploading an image with the same name as an image on Commons. (
r33972,
bug 889)
Configuration changes
Some HTTP cookies are now marked
HTTPOnly; this reduces the effects that certain types of
cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (if any exist) would have if they were exploited.
The search box now suggests search terms. (There is an option to turn this behaviour off; see the 'Search' tab of
Special:Preferences.)
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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