This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.6 (5e1ad30), 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.
Fixed bugs
The 'Compare selected versions' buttons are now disabled on pages with only 1 version. (
r28390,
bug 11221)
The option to view all namespaces on
Special:Newpages now actually works; previously it only displayed the article namespace. (
r28524,
bug 12031)
Selecting the option to hide patrolled pages on
Special:Newpages no longer causes the number of pages shown on each screen of results to reset. (
r28524,
bug 12283)
New features
It's now possible for administrators to protect a page even if it doesn't exist. (
r28385,
bug 2919)
Special:Upload now lists which file types are allowed. (
r28530, no associated bug tracker entry)
Configuration changes
The prefixes WP: and Wikipedia: are now 'aliases', meaning that they mean the same thing. This means that all shortcut redirects of the form
WP:POST have been moved to the Wikipedia: namespace, and now have names like
Wikipedia:POST (although because WP: and Wikipedia: are now aliases, typing
WP:POST will still work). Likewise, WT: is now an alias for Wikipedia talk:. (
bug 6313)
Ongoing news
Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See
mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
bugzilla or use
Betawiki.
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