Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-01/Technology report

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= New special pages created =

A new special page, Special:Randomredirect, allows a user to visit a random redirect page. Added by Rob Church on 25 April, the page works in a similar fashion as Special:Random.

Another new page, Special:Unusedtemplates, allows users to find templates which are not transcluded on any other page.

=Date of Caching=

Bug #4327 was resolved by adding a timestamp to special pages which contain cached data. Pages like Special:Ancientpages will now display the time the data was last updated.

= Last week in MediaWiki =

25 April — More specific protection notice and interface editing notices added
27 April — Invalid XHTML fixed in image galleries
28 April — Spam blacklist circumvention message with multiple URL slashes fixed
29 April — Users now warned if a file uploaded with the same name has been previously deleted
29 April — New {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word added (current value: {{NUMBEROFUSERS}})
29 April — Bug #93, a parsing error, fixed
Page protection and unprotection is now included in the revision history
Watchlists now have a namespace selector

= Last week in servers =

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

27 April — Mail services moved to bart
28 April — http://secure.wikimedia.org pointed to bart

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Also this week: Politician resigns

— M.A.N.I.A.

— Jimbo honored

— News and notes

— Press coverage

— Features and admins

— B.R.I.O.N.

— T.R.O.L.L.

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01 Technology

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