This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.44.0-wmf.2 (8fd6c9c), 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.
Fixed bugs
- The combination of parameters action=raw&templates=expand§ion=section number to a page (meaning 'show wikitext for section section number with templates expanded') now actually works; previously templates were incorrectly not expanded in this case. (r30895, bug 12938)
- CAPTCHAs now work correctly in Konqueror. (r30900, bug 4816)
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
, which is used by templates like {{lowercase}} to change the appearance of an article's title, now works during previews. (r30920, bug 13005)
- Image maps (<imagemap>/{{#tag:imagemap|}}) can now link to external URLs that contain ampersands. (bug 11504)
New features
- Links to redirects are now marked with class='mw-redirect'; this does not cause any change in their appearance by default, but allows the appearance of links to redirects to be customized in user CSS. (r30876, bug 12968)
Ongoing news
- Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.
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