Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-02/Technology report
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The default sort key of a page for categories can be changed using the new
A bug that caused incorrect display of autosummaries containing line breaks for IRC recent-changes bots was fixed. (Simetrical, bug 8304, r18500)
A bug that could cause incorrect display of the logo on right-to-left wikis that had customized the sidebar was fixed. (Brion Vibber, bug 8427, r18646)
The table-sorting script was upgraded to [http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/sortable-table/ an improved version] and adjusted somewhat. In particular, this eliminates two bugs: if a cell in the first row of the table contains whitespace, that does not force the rest of the column to sort alphabetically; and percentages now sort numerically. (Joost de Valk and Simetrical, bugs 8154 and 8155, r18775)
A few interface changes were made:
- Minor edits can now be hidden from the watchlist via a checkbox. (Rob Church, bug 8018, r18640)
- When bureaucrats rename users, they can now check a box to automatically move all of the user's pages and subpages to the new name. (Simetrical, bug 3519, r18649; interface and code improvements by Rob Church, r18649–53)
- When editing a page, the list of templates at the bottom now indicates whether the template is protected or not. (Mark Haidar/Fyren, bug 8392, r18682)
- When moving a page, an option to watch the target and redirect is now available. (Rob Church, bug 8461, r18773)
Some updates were made to non-English messages, specifically:
- Cantonese (thanks to Shinjiman)
- Czech (thanks to Li-sung)
- Finnish (thanks to Niklas Laxström)
- French (thanks to Bertrand Grondin)
- German (thanks to Raymond and Leon Weber)
- Hebrew (thanks to Rotem Liss)
- Japanese (thanks to kaikkd)
- Lithuanian (thanks to Edgaras)
- Russian (thanks to Alexander Sigachov)
Internationalization help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to Mediazilla.
Also this week: Promotional photos
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