This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.6 (5e1ad30), and changes with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.
Fixed bugs
Some mixes of <pre> tags and section headers no longer cause section editing to duplicate part of the page. (
r23101,
bug 10309)
Protecting a redirect now returns to the redirect itself, not to its target. (
r23304,
bug 10344)
New features
[1] now shows the username of the new user who made the change. (
r23075,
bug 10306)
Google Earth now has support for parsing the {{coord}} template in Wikipedia database dumps, in addition to the previously supported {{coor title dm}} and {{coor at dm}} (and their d and dms versions) and {{coor dm}} inside an infobox.
[2]
Ongoing news
Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See
m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
bugzilla.
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Special:Contributions/newbies
Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the username of the new user who made the change. (r23075, bug 10306)
No it doesn't. Go to that link, no usernames. -- AnonEMouse (squeak) 18:23, 26 June 2007 (UTC) reply