Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-03-09/Technology report

This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that some changes described here have not yet gone 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 revision suppression feature had a bug where the suppressed edit summaries were still being displayed on Special:DeletedContributions. That bug has now been fixed, and the servers are synced to include this bug fix. (r47930, bug 17755)
 * The ability to suppress the first revision of a page has been added. (r47946, bug 17761)

New features

 * The new magic word  has been added, which can be used to show who last edited a page. (r48149, bug 10336)

Other news

 * The 'hideuser' right was added to oversight group, allowing oversighters to hide a user or IP from the block log, the active block list, and user list when carrying out a block.
 * The 'developer' user rights group has been removed, as it was obsolete.
 * Database dumps are once again running on srv31, and the developers are working on reconfiguring the dump system to run on multiple servers so that large dumps are better able to work. The developers are also looking into possible format changes, to see if they can improve the performance and reliability of the database dumps.