Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-02/Technology report

The default sort key of a page for categories can be changed using the new  magic word. For instance, on George Washington,  would cause a subsequent   to be equivalent to , not. This is especially useful when the article belongs in many categories.(Rob Church, bug 5908, r18629)

A bug that caused incorrect display of autosummaries containing line breaks for IRC recent-changes bots was fixed. (Simetrical, bug 8304, r18500)

A bug that could cause incorrect display of the logo on right-to-left wikis that had customized the sidebar was fixed. (Brion Vibber, bug 8427, r18646)

The table-sorting script was upgraded to an improved version and adjusted somewhat. In particular, this eliminates two bugs: if a cell in the first row of the table contains whitespace, that does not force the rest of the column to sort alphabetically; and percentages now sort numerically. (Joost de Valk and Simetrical, bugs 8154 and 8155, r18775)

A few interface changes were made:
 * Minor edits can now be hidden from the watchlist via a checkbox. (Rob Church, bug 8018, r18640)
 * When bureaucrats rename users, they can now check a box to automatically move all of the user's pages and subpages to the new name. (Simetrical, bug 3519, r18649; interface and code improvements by Rob Church, r18649–53)
 * When editing a page, the list of templates at the bottom now indicates whether the template is protected or not. (Mark Haidar/Fyren, bug 8392, r18682)
 * When moving a page, an option to watch the target and redirect is now available. (Rob Church, bug 8461, r18773)

Some updates were made to non-English messages, specifically:


 * Cantonese (thanks to Shinjiman)
 * Czech (thanks to Li-sung)
 * Finnish (thanks to Niklas Laxström)
 * French (thanks to Bertrand Grondin)
 * German (thanks to Raymond and Leon Weber)
 * Hebrew (thanks to Rotem Liss)
 * Japanese (thanks to kaikkd)
 * Lithuanian (thanks to Edgaras)
 * Russian (thanks to Alexander Sigachov)

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