Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-09/Technology report

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.27 (fbabd90), 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.

• Invalid CSS, HTML and/or XHTML was fixed in many places this week:
  • The shared CSS for all skins. (r33962, bug 13866)
  • Special:Whatlinkshere. (r34078, bug 13913)
  • Special:Prefixindex when there are no results (r34099, bug 13922) and when there is more than one page of results (r34229, bug 13949)
  • Special:Search. (bugs 13924 and 13925; r34101 and r34105)
  • Thumbnailed images. (r34108, bug 13700)
  • The RSS feed for Special:Newpages. (r34230, bug 13952)
• Many fixes were made to the Modern skin:
  • The "Justify paragraphs" preference now works. (r34028, bug 13860)
  • The "navigation" accessibility link now links to the correct location. (r34036, bug 13168)
  • The link to subpages and the 'redirected from' link now show correctly at the same time. (r34038, bug 13185)
  • The "powered by MediaWiki" item is now displayed correctly. (r34039, bug 13583)
  • Printable versions are now styled correctly. (r34058, bug 13880)
• It's now possible to thumbnail SVG images to more than 1024 pixels wide (the new limit is 2048). (r34061, bug 13885)
• Hidden categories are now listed invisibly on the page even if there are no non-hidden categories; previously they would be listed invisibly only if there was at least one non-hidden category on the page. (r34062, bug 13347)
• Some issues with logging in were fixed on Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 on the Macintosh. (r34083, bug 13905)

• Some code has been added to allow renaming images; however, that code is not currently enabled, pending testing. (r34169, bug 709)

• 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.