Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-09-14/Technology report

This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. 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.

Bots approved
Three bots or bot tasks were approved this week, including:
 * SmackBot XVII, for substituting existing uses of lifetime, which may become subst: only.
 * SDPatrolBot 3, for the adjustment of CSD tags

Also approved was Porchcropbot, an alternate account. There are a number of open discussions, including one that would involve the mass addition of material to a number of articles from a database. Anyone is free to comment.

Bug fixes

 * Special:Export no longer ignores limit, dir, offset parameters. (r56298, bug 18180)

New features

 * Development work is underway to add support for TIFF files in MediaWiki &mdash; something that is especially important for image restoration work. Along with TIFF support, there will be improved handling of PDF and DjVu files.
 * Edits with user/IP suppression are now marked. (r56234, bug 20470)