Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-30/Technology report

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By ais523

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.8 (f08e6b3), 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.

New features

• Special:Recentchangeslinked ('Related changes') has been improved to be more like Special:Recentchanges: (r36682)
  • Related changes now has the option to show/hide minor, bot, and IP edits. (bug 4832http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4832, bug 12890http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12890)
  • Related changes now allows namespace selection. (bug 9481http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9481)
• When an administrator creates a new user, and the username given is similar to another user's username, AntiSpoof now prompts to ask whether to create the username rather than just creating it regardless. (r36760, bug 13426)

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.

In this issue

30 June 2008 (all comments)

ArbCom and Orangemarlin

ArbCom announcements

Taking up the mop

WikiWorld

News and notes

In the news

Dispatches

Features and admins

Technology report

Arbitration report

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