Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-02-15/Technology report

Usability beta supplemental release
The previously announced enhancements to the Usability beta were deployed last week by the Usability Team. The new iframe editor caused considerably more problems than anticipated and had many editors confused. Users were advised through a watchlist notice to disable the Beta if they were experiencing problems. The developers are keeping score on the progress they are making in solving the problems of this latest release in a blogpost.

Software changes

 * A bug that caused 1.3 million revisions from 2005 to appear as blank pages has been fixed. (Bug 20757)
 * The API has been fixed (r62511) so as not to reveal the blocked IP range for autoblocks in a list=blocks query, and not to reveal autoblocks among a certain user's or IP's blocks. This mirrors the behaviour of Special:BlockList.

Bots approved
The following bots and tasks have been approved in the past two weeks:


 * DASHBot (Task 5) – Remove fair-use image outside article namespace.
 * SDPatrolBot II – Notify creators of articles tagged for CSD.
 * Yobot (Task 11) – Auto-untagging of orphans, deadend and uncategorised pages and remove expand tags if articles are stubs.
 * BotMultichillT – Clone of BotMultichilll.
 * PDBbot – Update Gene Wiki templates to point to new protein structure images.
 * WildBot (Task 4) – Bypass redirects tagged with R from incorrect name.