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 1.43.0-wmf.21 (b7b9c62), 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
- Editing a section no longer strips leading whitespace from the start introduction section. (r33314, bug 13728)
- Some features of the redirect system were accidentally broken, and then fixed again:
- Redirects to sections were broken. (r33375, bug 13752)
- The history of pages which are redirects, but once were non-redirect pages, was broken. (r33381, bug 13754)
- Database errors could appear when two users viewed the same old redirect at approximately the same time. (r33133, bug 13745)
- "Add pages I create to my watchlist" now also watches uploaded images. (r33387, bug 13725)
- Transclusions of Special:Newpages no longer incorrectly show a drop-down box. (r33389, bug 13756)
- Special:Whatlinkshere now pages properly when filtered to show only a certain type of backlink. (r33607, bug 12793)
- The api's list=search no longer incorrectly returns deleted pages. (r33608, bug 13792)
New features
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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