Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-05-25/Technology report

This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Please note that some bug fixes or new features described below 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.

Bug fixes

 * If a browser or web crawler opens a nonexistent page, the browser or crawler will receive a 404 error header (explanation) with the usual nonexistent page content. (r44919, bug 2585)

New features

 * There is a bug to implement the interlanguage extension which if enabled would radically change the handling of interlanguage links by creating an interlanguage link wiki. (bug 15607)
 * Anon-only IP blocks can now also include blocking e-mail. (r50871, bug 18860)
 * The date and time have been separated into two fields in Special:BlockList. (r50983, bug 17093)
 * Magic words and  have been introduced for displaying months without the leading zero.  and  have also been added for consistency with other magic words. (r50811, bug:5755)

Other news

 * Extension:ABC, which allows embedding music scores on wiki pages, may soon be enabled on Wikimedia wikis.