Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-02-19/Technology report

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

New features

Special:Protectedpages should now update in real time, rather than being cached. (Andrew Garrett, r19941)

On Special:Log, the log types in the drop-down menu will now be sorted alphabetically. (Ashar Voultoiz, r19980)

Euros and pounds should now be treated as currency by sortable tables. (Brion Vibber, r19989)

Irrelevant options on Special:Blockip will now be hidden depending on whether the blocking user has entered a username, IP address, or IP range. (Brion Vibber, r19997)

Internationalization

Some updates were made to non-English messages, specifically:

Breton (thanks to Fulup)
Czech (thanks to Li-sung)
Esperanto (thanks to Maha)
Finnish (thanks to Niklas Laxström)
Georgian (thanks to Malafaya)
German (thanks to Raimond Spekking and Arnomane)
Hebrew (thanks to Rotem Liss)
Indonesian (thanks to Ivan Lanin)
Japanese (thanks to kaikkd)
Latin (thanks to UV)
Occitan (thanks to Cédric)

Internationalization help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to Mediazilla.

Also this week: From the editor — Arbitrator resigns — Is Wikipedia Failing? — Google traffic — WikiWorld — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration