Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-11-02/Technology report
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News|By Aude|November 2, 2009}}
This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Some bug fixes or new features described below have not yet gone live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version {{CURRENTVERSION}}, 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.
=Bots approved=
Three bot tasks were approved this past week:
- SmackBot (task 16) – To migrate geoboxes to a new standard.
- CobraBot (task 2) – To add Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Classification data to
{{Infobox book}} instances based on ISBNs. - ZhBot (task 1) – To replace superseded zh-related templates in Category:Chinese multilingual support templates with master template
{{zh}} .
=Bug fixes=
- A message has been added to note to Special:Block indicating if the IP is already globally blocked. (r58385, bug 20478)
- Section edit links have been removed from the edit conflict form. (r58362)
- HTMLDiff has been removed from MediaWiki, with developers noting this could be salvaged someday as an extension but currently it is a mostly-broken experimental feature that does not belong in the core code. (r58267, bug 19859)
=New features=
- Some capability has been added for configuring the /16 limit on range blocks, using the $wgBlockCIDRLimit setting. (r58377, bug 3340)
- A new hook, getOtherBlockLogLink, has been added, which is called in Special:IPBlockList to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, such as Extension:GlobalBlocking. (r58192)
=Other news=
- Many developers and others heavily involved with other aspects of Wikimedia Commons are preparing for an upcoming meeting later this week in France pertaining to the Ford Foundation-supported Multimedia Usability project.