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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.8 (f95d369), 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

  • Undeletion of pages now fails more gracefully during a database lock. (r26768, bug 11343)
  • When an anonymous or non-autoconfirmed user views a move action in a log, they no longer get the (revert) link that allows the move to be quickly undone (it previously appeared, but was nonfunctional). (r26804, bug 11690)

New features

  • An API 'allpages' query now allows sorting in reverse alphabetical order, and allows more than one page protection condition to be given at once. (r26725, bug 11634)
  • The administrator-only page Special:DeletedContributions now displays (diff) links. (r26711, bug 11606)
  • Special:Whatlinkshere now prompts for a page to check links to rather than showing an error if no page is given. Consequently, it now appears on Special:Specialpages. (r26820, bug 11649)

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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