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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.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.

Fixed bugs

  • The Cortado player (used to play .ogg files) now stops at the right moment rather than continuing for several minutes on low-performance computers. (bug 11445http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11445)
  • The Cortado player's control bar no longer covers the bottom of a video it's playing. (r36977, bug 13795)
  • Several bugs were fixed in the CategoryTree extension (which shows hierarchical lists of subcategories on category pages):
    • Subcategories with no subsubcategories now no longer show a link to display their subsubcategories. (r36886, bug 11132)
    • Empty subcategories now have the message stating that they are empty with certain combinations of options that were buggy beforehand. (r36886, bug 12149)
    • The [+] link now links to the category it references when JavaScript is not enabled, rather than doing nothing. (r36773, bug 13680)
    • Subcategories are now shown in normal font rather than in bold. (r37054, bug 14730)
  • When a page is created and then immediately moved, its new title now appears in Special:Newpages. (r36938, bug 3481)
  • Unprotecting an unprotected page no longer creates a log entry. (r36967, bug 12716)
  • The length (in characters) of a block expiry time is now limited to 50 characters, to prevent it corrupting the display of the block log. (r36980, bug 14088)
  • Double-escaping was fixed in the RSS feed for log entries. (r37202, bug 14646)
  • The parsing of MediaWiki:Loginsuccess was fixed; previously many more complicated constructions failed to parse due to mistakes in the way it was parsed. (r37209, bug 14709)

New features

Configuration changes

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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