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This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Knowledge. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Knowledge is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.23 (a5827e3), and changes to the software with a
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for more details. (Note that the feature has changed slightly since that message; in order to prevent a double redirect being fixed, you now need to place __STATICREDIRECT__ on the double redirect page).
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subpages, takes precedence over this). The keywords do nothing in "content namespaces" ― which means the main namespace on the English Knowledge, but other sites may have additional content namespaces.
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Double redirects (redirects which redirect to another redirect) created by new pagemoves are now fixed automatically by the software; edits made by such fixing are attributed to
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New magic words __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ control whether a page can be indexed by search engines (although note that Wikimedia's robots.txt, which excludes things like
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version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.
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The new double-redirect-fixing feature now correctly fixes redirects to sections of a moved page. (
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now gives 50 entries, rather than taking the number of entries set in the reader's preferences. (
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for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
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Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See
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AfD
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mw:Localisation statistics
bugzilla
Betawiki
Wikimania 2008
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News and notes
Dispatches

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