Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-29/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

 * If an IP is blocked with account-creation-blocked, users editing through that IP now cannot create accounts. (r41150, bug 13611)
 * Special:PrefixIndex and Special:AllPages now have different HTML &lt;title&gt;s from each other. (r41341, bug 15388)
 * Renames of users now work if the old username is entered in lowercase, rather than appearing to work but doing nothing. (r41347, bug 15753)


 * When a protected page is moved (thus leaving the new name protected) the protection log for the new name now contains details explaining how the page became protected. (r41227, bug 8296 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8296 ; r41384, bug 15754 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15754 )
 * When a user with a large number of edits is renamed, there is now only one entry made in the rename log. (r40230, bug 15376)

New features

 * Moving a protected page now protects the resulting redirect the same way. (r41227, bug 10527)
 * Administrators can now choose, when blocking a user, whether that user can edit their own talk page during the block. (r41248, bug 8440)
 * A prop=info query on the API now allows a query for a page's URL, and whether it is readable. (Although all pages on Wikipedia are readable, the same is not true for some private wikis.) (r41261, bug 15609)
 * A new API query prop=duplicates allows files (such as images) which are duplicates of a given file to be searched for. (r41306, bug 15653)
 * Special:ListUsers now shows each user's server edit count. (r41350, bug 15503)

Configuration changes

 * Account-creators can now create accounts with usernames similar to existing ones. (bug 14576 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14576 )

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.