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This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Knowledge. Please note that some bug fixes or new features described below have not yet gone live as of press time; the English Knowledge is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.23 (a5827e3), and changes to
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The ability has been added for oversighters to unhide a username (reversing the hide-user feature) when unblocking an account; Previously, it was only possible to reverse the hide-user action by reblocking the user with the hide-user setting unchecked. Also, when unblocking and unhiding a user, the
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The TorBlock configuration has been changed to require explicit block exemption, rather than allowing all logged-in users to edit via a Tor proxy. The change is due to the amount of harassment and vandalism problems coming in via Tor proxies, which substantially overweighs the amount of positive
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In Bug fixes, perhaps it would reduce confusion to point out that "Hide user" is an option for oversighters, and isn't available to anyone else. I initially thought there was a new feature that I hadn't noticed. There's a brief mention of the feature in the first paragraph of
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The pywikipedia mailing lists have been restructured and split into multiple lists, with bug reports now sent to the pywikipedia-bugs list, svn updates to pywikipedia-svn, announcements to pywikipedia-announce, and general pywikipedia discussion on pywikipedia-l.
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page. Revision numbers previously displayed were oftentimes inaccurate, but changes made will have the revision numbers automatically update now and show accurately on the Special:Version page. (
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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.
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handling now properly handles tags that are arrays, such as GPS coordinates. (
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Subversion revision numbers for MediaWiki extensions are now shown on the
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Yes, I saw that too and wondered what it was. I've now clarified it. —
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When purging an image page, the metadata now will also be purged. (
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projects for Wikimedia have been announced: Niklas Laxström (
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