Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-07-03/Technology report
Technology report
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Last week in MediaWiki software
Enhancements
- Run link table updates when importing pages [Brion Vibber]
- Update Special:Recentchanges and the import log when importing pages [Brion Vibber]
- List pages created after import [Brion Vibber]
- Link to page histories in Special:Newpages [Rob Church]
- Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist [Rob Church]
- Introduce
{{formatnum:}}magic word [Niklas Laxström] - Enforce bad image list in categories [Brion Vibber]
- Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage [Rob Church]
- Preserve language selections in the mode switch link on Special:Userlogin [Rob Church]
- Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it [Rob Church]
Bug fixes
- Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing [Rob Church]
- Fix paging links in Special:Prefixindex [Rob Church]
- Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to
{{ns:}}[Rob Church] - Respect page existence on Special:Shortpages [Rob Church]
Last week in servers
- The Wikimedia Grid Report at http://static.wikipedia.org/ganglia/ is working [Tim Starling]
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