Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-09-24/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 necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version, and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.

Fixed bugs

 * Special:CategoryTree now no longer accidentally confuses non-category pages with categories with the same name. (r25920, bug 11383)

New features

 * The page history now has a different &lt;title> from the page itself, so that they can be distinguished in browser histories; administrators can customize this via MediaWiki:History-title. (r25952, bug 11151)
 * When a &lt;ref&gt; tag has no content and no tag with the same name to copy the content from, it now displays an obvious error message rather than a blank reference. (r26045, bug 11426)

Other technology news

 * After an unusually heated debate, the Siberian Wikipedia (http://ru-sib.wikipedia.org) was closed; for more information, see Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Siberian Wikipedia and bug 11397.

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 or use Betawiki.