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.2 (ce9d259), 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.
Special:Newpages can now be filtered by logged-in status of the creating user, bot status of the creating user, and whether the new page has been patrolled. (Only the bot/nonbot filter is currently relevant on the English Wikipedia.) (
r27204,
bug 1401)
Other technology news
The Siberian Wikipedia (formerly at
http://ru-sib.wikipedia.org/wiki/) was deleted entirely following
this discussion on meta: (it had previously only been closed and locked, but due to the deletion its URL now cannot be loaded at all, even for reading). This is somewhat unusual; normally, when a project is closed, it is locked but allowed to continue in read-only mode. (
bug 11680)
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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