Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-08/Technology report
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2|{{{1|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}}|By Catherine Munro}}
= Last week in MediaWiki software =
== New functionality ==
- Optional comments are now allowed to be associated with undeletion of pages or revisions -- [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/6/69/Undelete.png see screenshot]. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:3309)
- The contributions limit for Special:Renameuser is increased to 200,000. The largest existing account is User:Rambot, on the English Wikipedia, with 131,511 edits so it is not likely users will have limit problems in the near future. (Tim Starling)
- Special:Mypage, and Special:Mytalk can now take arguments such as "?action=history" in their URLs. (Rob Church, Bugzilla:5284)
- A third parameter, $3, was added to MediaWiki:Rcnote, allowing the current date and time to be passed in the user's preferred format. (Rob Church)
- New magic word
__NEWSECTIONLINK__
== Interface tweaks ==
- Special:Confirmemail rewritten to be more intuitive. (Rob Church)
- Special
: Userlist created as a redirect to Special:Listusers. (Rob Church) - Canonical (i.e. English) image namespace name allowed on Bad Image List. (Rob Church)
- "Bureaucrat log" renamed "rights log". (Rob Church)
- Certain special pages, such as Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now preserve parameters from the request string when redirecting. (Rob Church)
- "Return to" link on Blocked Page message fixed, so the user is returned to the article they attempted to edit. (Rob Church)
== Bug fixes ==
- SQL causing incorrect listings in Special:BrokenRedirects fixed. (Rob Church)
- Some issues with transcluded special pages fixed. (Rob Church)
</code> tags in SVG files allowed. (Rob Church)</li> <li><a href='?title=Special%3Cnowiki%3E%3A%3C%2Fnowiki%3ERecentchangeslinked'>Special<nowiki>:</nowiki>Recentchangeslinked</a> and <a href='?title=Special%3Cnowiki%3E%3A%3C%2Fnowiki%3EMostlinked'>Special<nowiki>:</nowiki>Mostlinked</a> updated to handle non-existent target pages appropriately. (Rob Church)</li> <li>Handling of underscores in usernames on <a href='?title=Special%3Cnowiki%3E%3A%3C%2Fnowiki%3EListusers'>Special<nowiki>:</nowiki>Listusers</a> fixed. (Rob Church)</li> <li>"Table full" errors on update of profiling table fixed. (<a href='?title=User%3ABrion_VIBBER'>Brion Vibber</a>)</li> <li>Naked HTML output caused by nested <code><nowiki><li></nowiki></code> links fixed. (<a href='?title=User%3AHashar'>Ashar Voultoiz</a>)</li> <li>Pages linked from the MediaWiki namespace no longer counted on <a href='?title=Special%3Cnowiki%3E%3A%3C%2Fnowiki%3EWantedpages'>Special<nowiki>:</nowiki>Wantedpages</a>. (Rob Church)</li> <li>Unstable parser issues on <a href='?title=Special%3Cnowiki%3E%3A%3C%2Fnowiki%3EPreferences'>Special<nowiki>:</nowiki>Preferences</a> cleaned up. (Rob Church)</li> </ul></div></section><section class='wiki-section collapsible' id='section--ast-week-in-servers-'><h2 class='section-toggle'>= Last week in servers =</h2><div class='wiki-body'><p>Fifteen new servers (srv81-96) were set up and put into rotation this week; the hardware team were busy with all the intensive work and configuration changes that were required.</p> <p>Other server-related events, problems, and changes included:</p> <ul> <li><em>dryas</em> taken out of rotation to make a synchronous dump for <em>zedler</em>.</li> <li>mailgraph installed on <em>goeje</em>.</li> <li>toolserver replication user and tunnel created for use on <em>henbane</em>.</li> <li>url host for wikimedianz-l list fixed.</li> <li>asw3's switchport configured so new machines will work.</li> <li>redirected http://ticket.wikimedia.org/ to secure server.</li> <li><em>will</em> reinstalled.</li> <li>large and unused x-moz log disabled.</li> </ul> <p><noinclude>{{noprint|1={{center|1=<small></p> <p>Also this week: <a href='?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2006-05-08%2FRankings_update'>Rankings update</a></p> <p>— <a href='?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2006-05-08%2FWikimania_series'>M.A.N.I.A.</a></p> <p>— <a href='?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2006-05-08%2FNews_and_notes'>News and notes</a></p> <p>— <a href='?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2006-05-08%2FIn_the_news'>Press coverage</a></p> <p>— <a href='?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2006-05-08%2FFeatures_and_admins'>Features and admins</a></p> <p>— <a href='?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2006-05-08%2FTechnology_report'>B.R.I.O.N.</a></p> <p>— <a href='?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2006-05-08%2FArbitration_report'>T.R.O.L.L.</a></p> <p></small>}}}}</noinclude></p> <p><a href='?title=Category%3AWikipedia_Signpost_archives_2006-05'>08 Technology</a></p> <p>{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-end-v2}}</p> <p><noinclude>{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-comments-end|||}}</noinclude></p></div></section></div></main> <footer class="site-footer"> <div class="footer-container"> <div class="footer-links"> <a href="/about.php">About</a> <a href="/help.php">Help</a> <a href="/updates.php">Updates</a> <a href="/contact.php">Contact</a> <a href="/privacy.php">Privacy</a> <a href="/terms.php">Terms</a> <a href="https://github.com/yourusername/friendly-wiki" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a> </div> <div class="footer-copy"> © 2025 Friendly Wiki. All rights reserved. </div> </div> </footer> <script> const toggle = document.getElementById('mobileMenuToggle'); const menu = document.getElementById('mobileMenu'); toggle.addEventListener('click', () => { menu.classList.toggle('active'); }); </script> <!-- Collapsible toggle --> <script> document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () { const toggles = document.querySelectorAll('.section-toggle'); toggles.forEach(toggle => { toggle.addEventListener('click', function () { const section = toggle.closest('.collapsible'); const body = section.querySelector('.wiki-body'); body.classList.toggle('collapsed'); }); }); }); </script>