Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-12-17/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

 * The 'Compare selected versions' buttons are now disabled on pages with only 1 version. (r28390, bug 11221)
 * The option to view all namespaces on Special:Newpages now actually works; previously it only displayed the article namespace. (r28524, bug 12031)
 * Selecting the option to hide patrolled pages on Special:Newpages no longer causes the number of pages shown on each screen of results to reset. (r28524, bug 12283)

New features

 * It's now possible for administrators to protect a page even if it doesn't exist. (r28385, bug 2919)
 * Special:Protectedtitles was also added to track these pages. (r28506)


 * MediaWiki:Unusedimagestext now supports wikitext. (r28527, bug 12063)
 * Special:Upload now lists which file types are allowed. (r28530, no associated bug tracker entry)

Configuration changes

 * The prefixes WP: and Wikipedia: are now 'aliases', meaning that they mean the same thing. This means that all shortcut redirects of the form WP:POST have been moved to the Wikipedia: namespace, and now have names like POST (although because WP: and Wikipedia: are now aliases, typing WP:POST will still work). Likewise, WT: is now an alias for Wikipedia talk:. (bug 6313)

Ongoing news

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