Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-12-03/Technology report

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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 1.44.0-wmf.5 (d64f667), 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)
Some invalid HTML in Special:Emailuser was fixed. (r27987, bug 12166)
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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