Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-02-18/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 combination of parameters action=raw&templates=expand&section=section number to a page (meaning 'show wikitext for section section number with templates expanded') now actually works; previously templates were incorrectly not expanded in this case. (r30895, bug 12938)
 * CAPTCHAs now work correctly in Konqueror. (r30900, bug 4816)
 * , which is used by templates like lowercase to change the appearance of an article's title, now works during previews. (r30920, bug 13005)
 * Image maps ( / ) can now link to external URLs that contain ampersands. (bug 11504)

New features

 * Links to redirects are now marked with class='mw-redirect'; this does not cause any change in their appearance by default, but allows the appearance of links to redirects to be customized in user CSS. (r30876, bug 12968)

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.