Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-08/Technology report

New functionality

 * Optional comments are now allowed to be associated with undeletion of pages or revisions -- see screenshot. (Rob Church, 3309)
 * The contributions limit for Special:Renameuser is increased to 200,000. The largest existing account is User:Rambot, on the English Wikipedia, with 131,511 edits so it is not likely users will have limit problems in the near future. (Tim Starling)
 * Special:Mypage, and Special:Mytalk can now take arguments such as "?action=history" in their URLs. (Rob Church, 5284)
 * A third parameter, $3, was added to MediaWiki:Rcnote, allowing the current date and time to be passed in the user's preferred format. (Rob Church)
 * New magic word  was introduced, which allows users to add a "new section" link (shown as a tab in Monobook) to pages which aren't talk pages. (Rob Church)

Interface tweaks

 * Special:Confirmemail rewritten to be more intuitive. (Rob Church)
 * Special : Userlist created as a redirect to Special:Listusers. (Rob Church)
 * Canonical (i.e. English) image namespace name allowed on Bad Image List. (Rob Church)
 * "Bureaucrat log" renamed "rights log". (Rob Church)
 * Certain special pages, such as Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now preserve parameters from the request string when redirecting. (Rob Church)
 * "Return to" link on Blocked Page message fixed, so the user is returned to the article they attempted to edit. (Rob Church)

Bug fixes

 * SQL causing incorrect listings in Special:BrokenRedirects fixed. (Rob Church)
 * Some issues with transcluded special pages fixed. (Rob Church)
 * tags in SVG files allowed. (Rob Church)
 * Special : Recentchangeslinked and Special : Mostlinked updated to handle non-existent target pages appropriately. (Rob Church)
 * Handling of underscores in usernames on Special : Listusers fixed. (Rob Church)
 * "Table full" errors on update of profiling table fixed. (Brion Vibber)
 * Naked HTML output caused by nested  links fixed. (Ashar Voultoiz)
 * Pages linked from the MediaWiki namespace no longer counted on Special : Wantedpages. (Rob Church)
 * Unstable parser issues on Special : Preferences cleaned up. (Rob Church)

Last week in servers
Fifteen new servers (srv81-96) were set up and put into rotation this week; the hardware team were busy with all the intensive work and configuration changes that were required.

Other server-related events, problems, and changes included:
 * dryas taken out of rotation to make a synchronous dump for zedler.
 * mailgraph installed on goeje.
 * toolserver replication user and tunnel created for use on henbane.
 * url host for wikimedianz-l list fixed.
 * asw3's switchport configured so new machines will work.
 * redirected http://ticket.wikimedia.org/ to secure server.
 * will reinstalled.
 * large and unused x-moz log disabled.