Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-08/Technology report
Technology report
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Last week in MediaWiki software
New functionality
- Optional comments are now allowed to be associated with undeletion of pages or revisions -- see screenshot. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:3309)
- The contributions limit for Special:Renameuser is increased to 200,000. The largest existing account is User:Rambot, on the English Wikipedia, with 131,511 edits so it is not likely users will have limit problems in the near future. (Tim Starling)
- Special:Mypage, and Special:Mytalk can now take arguments such as "?action=history" in their URLs. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:5284)
- A third parameter, $3, was added to MediaWiki:Rcnote, allowing the current date and time to be passed in the user's preferred format. (Rob Church)
- New magic word
__NEWSECTIONLINK__was introduced, which allows users to add a "new section" link (shown as a tab in Monobook) to pages which aren't talk pages. (Rob Church)
Interface tweaks
- Special:Confirmemail rewritten to be more intuitive. (Rob Church)
- [[Special:Userlist]] created as a redirect to Special:Listusers. (Rob Church)
- Canonical (i.e. English) image namespace name allowed on [[MediaWiki:Bad_image_list|Bad Image List]]. (Rob Church)
- "Bureaucrat log" renamed "rights log". (Rob Church)
- Certain special pages, such as Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now preserve parameters from the request string when redirecting. (Rob Church)
- "Return to" link on Blocked Page message fixed, so the user is returned to the article they attempted to edit. (Rob Church)
Bug fixes
- SQL causing incorrect listings in Special:BrokenRedirects fixed. (Rob Church)
- Some issues with transcluded special pages fixed. (Rob Church)
<title>tags in SVG files allowed. (Rob Church)- [[Special:Recentchangeslinked]] and [[Special:Mostlinked]] updated to handle non-existent target pages appropriately. (Rob Church)
- Handling of underscores in usernames on [[Special:Listusers]] fixed. (Rob Church)
- "Table full" errors on update of profiling table fixed. (Brion Vibber)
- Naked HTML output caused by nested
<li>links fixed. (Ashar Voultoiz) - Pages linked from the MediaWiki namespace no longer counted on [[Special:Wantedpages]]. (Rob Church)
- Unstable parser issues on [[Special:Preferences]] cleaned up. (Rob Church)
Last week in servers
Fifteen new servers (srv81-96) were set up and put into rotation this week; the hardware team were busy with all the intensive work and configuration changes that were required.
Other server-related events, problems, and changes included:
- dryas taken out of rotation to make a synchronous dump for zedler.
- mailgraph installed on goeje.
- toolserver replication user and tunnel created for use on henbane.
- url host for wikimedianz-l list fixed.
- asw3's switchport configured so new machines will work.
- redirected http://ticket.wikimedia.org/ to secure server.
- will reinstalled.
- large and unused x-moz log disabled.
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