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 1.45.0-wmf.24 (e905563), 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
- Two bugs were fixed in the Cortado player (one of the options that can be used to play back audio and video files):
- Video playback using Cortado now doesn't stall on computers with no audio devices available. (r31743,bug 11236)
- Files shorter than about 0.5 seconds now play; previously the entire file would be clipped to nothing. (r31776,bug 11232)
- Special:MovePage now again repeats the current title as the default destination; this behaviour was broken by mistake. (r31911,bug 13343)
- Redirect pages now work properly if they start with stray whitespace. (r31922,bug 13344)
- Links to sections now work correctly inInternet Explorer if there are two sections on the same page with names that are almost the same but have different capitalisations. (r31931,bug 10721)
- YAML output from the API now escapes strings properly. (r31927,bug 12120)
- Special:Allpages can now handle the" character in page names. (r31984,bug 13359)
- The incorrect markup
#REDIRECT [[target] (with a missing trailing ]) is now handled more sensibly. (r31996,bug 2084)
New features
Other changes
- All special pages have now been standardised to useCamelCase names; however, they are case-insensitive, and so using the old names will continue to work. (r31844,bug 11986)
Ongoing news
- Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! Seemw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates tobugzilla or useBetawiki.
