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 error message given when incorrectly including a parameter in a <references> tag is now factually correct. (
r40632,
bug 15517)
The API now correctly returns data about pages which are both cascade-protected and which were originally protected before Wikipedia upgraded to MediaWiki 1.10. (
r40678,
bug 15535)
Log entries for protection are no longer cut off when a very long protection summary is used (although existing such entries will still be cut off). (
r40713,
bug 12234)
Edits by bots with newly-created accounts will no longer appear on
[1]. (
r40715,
bug 15554)
The XML returned by the API now has a correct encoding declaration. (
r40700,
bug 15497)
Deletion log fragments are now shown to an anonymous user who gives the commands to create a page (and fails), just like they are shown to other users who try to create a page and fail. (
r40723,
bug 15551)
The paging links on
Special:Newpages now work correctly when the user has set a preference other than 50 as the default number of entries to show and is using that default value. (
r40811,
bug 15598)
New features
When protecting a page, a drop-down box of commonly-used protection times is now available. (
r40555,
bug 10188)
It is now possible to set separate expiry times for move-protection and edit-protection of a page. (
r40770,
bug 12650)
#expr: now allows a Unicode minus (−) as well as a hyphen (-) to indicate a negative number or subtraction. (
r40762,
bug 15349)
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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