Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-11-30/Technology report
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News|By Aude|30 November 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=
One new bot was approved this past week:
- RM bot, operated by User:Harej – To maintain Wikipedia:Requested moves and related pages, taking over from User:RFC bot which has maintained the pages since May.
=New features=
- The ability to hide bots in Special:Activeusers has been added. (r59484, bug 20717)
=Other news=
- Developer Tim Starling has removed the JS2 (JavaScript, script loader) from the MediaWiki core, and put it into a branch so that issues with the code can be worked on. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-November/046022.html]
- Wikimedia configuration files at http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ are currently unavailable due to a server configuration problem. (bug 21680)