Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-06-11/Technology report



This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version, and changes with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.

Fixed bugs

 * A bug causing images to be deleted on Wikimedia Commons whenever a description page for an image with the same name was deleted on a different project (such as the English Wikipedia) has now been fixed. (This means that it's now safe for administrators to resume deletions under speedy deletion criterion I2.) (r22718, bug 10128)
 * Editing section 0 of a page now shows the correct list of templates used on that page at the bottom of the screen. (r22779, bug 10149)

New features

 * A new parser function, #titleparts, was added, to return the first few parts of a slash-separated subpage structure; for instance, is . (r22711, bug 6067)
 * Two new special pages were added:
 * Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, to find out which templates are most heavily used, (r22720, bug 10118)
 * and Special:Uncategorizedtemplates, to list templates with no categories. (r22897, bug 8869)
 * There is now an option to display all namespaces in Special:Newpages. (r22730, bug 9898)
 * There is now a checkbox for administrators to watch a page at the same time as changing its protection level. (r22739, bug 9769)
 * The user interface for Special:Preferences now shows an example of what setting a stub threshold looks like. (r22740, bug 9886)
 * The what-links-here links on Special:Whatlinkshere itself can now be customized using user CSS. (r22757, bug 10145)
 * "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" are now legal aliases for "DEFAULTSORT". (r22839, bug 5908)
 * Administrators can now block a user from using Special:Emailuser. (r22816, bug 7997)

Ongoing news

 * Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla.