Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-04-24/Technology report
Technology report
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Bot flags now set by bureaucrats
Brion Vibber
fixed a bug prohibiting stewards from changing rights on the English Wikipedia.
Watchlists altered
A series of changes to the
watchlist were made on 17 April and 18
. The most notable change was the addition of an "enhanced watchlist" function, available through a user's preferences. This function, similar to the "enhanced recent changes" function, offers additional information via a JavaScript toggle button. Other changes included the ability to set other preferences, including the number of days shown, through preferences, the addition of a "clear all" link, which removes all items from a user's watchlist, and a working "hide bot edits" function.
Last week in MediaWiki
- 17 April — Editing toolbar fixed in certain versions of Opera, Safari, and Konqueror
- 18 April — List of unused templates generated
- 21 April — Special:Newpages now filter-able by namespace
- 22 April — Special:Wantedpages updated for pages created since last report
Last week in servers
Server-related events, problems, and changes included:
- 19 April — Tampa cluster fails
- 20 April — Wikisource mailing list created
- 22 April — Search servers restarted
- 24 April — Chapter committee wiki fixed
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