Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-02/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Mets501, 2 April 2007

Please keep in mind that features listed here may not be live on the English Wikipedia yet. Also, in general, features that do not affect the English Wikipedia, such as new extensions that are not enabled here, are not listed.

This page covers revisions up to r20946.

New features

• Special:Linksearch can now be used with any prefix (https://, ftp://, irc://, news://, mailto://, etc). (bug 8324http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8324; r20561)

• Special:Protectedpages can now be sorted by namespace and protection type/level, and a minimum page length can be specified. (bug 9326http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9326; r20571, r20591)

• Special:Whatlinkshere can now be sorted by namespace. (bug 4624http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4624; r20616, r20627)

• An RSS feed for each database dump in each language has been created. It will be linked from the summary pages soon, and will be located in the "latest" subdirectory of each dump with the name *-rss.xml. For example, the RSS feed for the English Wikipedia's enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 dump will be located at http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2-rss.xml. (r20710)

• Two new MediaWiki: messages, MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer and MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon have been created as a way to place (optionally different) footer text on the Special:Contributions page for anonymous users and logged-in users, similar to the way special text is placed at the bottom of IP talk pages. (bug 9397http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9397; r20720)

• To help with javascript and other programming, a new javascript variable wgAction has been added. The value of this variable is the action from the page's URL, defaulting to "view" when simply viewing an article. (bug 8421http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8421; r20754)

• Special pages dedicated to images (Special:Mostimages, Special:Uncategorizedimages, and Special:Unusedimages as of now) now display image galleries instead of image lists, as is done in categories. (bug 9069http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9069; r20788)

• A huge amount of work was done on Flagged Revisions and ConfirmEdit, and a new extension, Minimum Name Length was created, although neither are enabled on the English Wikipedia.

• The "mediawikiwiki:" interwiki prefix can now be used to link to http://www.mediawiki.org. (bug 9440http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9440; r20825)

Fixed bugs

• Fatal error no longer appears when entering an invalid name into Special:Listusers. (r20555)

• Users are now warned when uploading an image with an uppercase extension if one with the same lowercase extension exists or if uploading a scaled down version of an existing image. (bug 3069http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3069; r20563)

• The block log will now show expanded text instead of abbreviations for the block flags (i.e. "anonymous users only" instead of "anononly", "account creation disabled" instead of "nocreate", etc) (r20583)

• If a page is both normally protected and cascade protected, the regular protection message will be shown when attempting to edit the page. (bug 9401http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9401; r20646)

• Special:Recentchangeslinked now displays a redlink for nonexistent target pages, instead of silently redirecting to the nonexistent page. (bug 5817http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5817; r20807)

• {{anchorencode:}} no longer transforms colons. (bug 8914http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8914; r20819)

• Special:Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning. (bug 2979http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2979; r20828)

• Special:Renameuser now doesn't allow renaming a user to an invalid username, and does allow renaming a user with an invalid username to a valid one. (bug 4939http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4939; r20841)

• The failed rollback message now parses the edit summary of the most recent edit, instead of displaying raw wikicode. (bug 9466http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9466; r20875)

• The "My contributions" link is now bold when viewing your own contributions. (bug 4764http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4764; r20902)

Internationalization

Internationalization help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla.

Also this week: Poll — Errors — AMA — NYT correction — WikiWorld — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration