Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-06-05/Technology report

Parser fixes
Brion Vibber has made various fixes to the parser in an attempt to remove the need for HTML Tidy, a software program that fixes HTML errors, but has various glitches. Many of the fixes involve problems with the parsing of extensions such as.

New functionality

 * Smart edit summaries for redirect pages (i.e. "Redirecting to PAGENAME"). (Rob Church)
 * Allow customisation of robot policies per-namespace. (Tim Starling)
 * Add "edit based on this version" links to diff. views. (Jens Frank)
 * Add job queue count to action=raw output on Special:Statistics. (Tim Starling)
 * magic word added. For example,   produces .  (Rob Church)

Bug fixes

 * Ensure that page links viewed after undeleting a page always appear as blue links. (Rob Church)
 * Improve handling of large data sets when adding template links updates to the job queue. (Brion Vibber)

Last week in servers

 * Portal namespace conflicts fixed on Chinese Wikipedia
 * bart added to installation group, allowing it to receive software updates with other servers.
 * New motherboard installed on srv3, new drive and OS installed on srv119
 * "Wikipedia Incubator" created as alternative to initially keeping new languages on Meta.
 * 19 new Wikisources added.
 * New drive and OS installed on srv51.