SmackBot (Task 26) – Move non-redirects from the old VfD space to AfD where no conflict is found.
RjwilmsiBot (Task 3) – CiteCompletion: a script that completes fields within citations to common English-language news sites on the English Wikipedia. It works by taking the news article URL from the Wikipedia article page, looking up the news page and extracting the missing details of the news article based on per-site rules.User:Rjwilmsi/CiteCompletion.
On 9 April, lead software engineerTim Starling switched the servers of theWikimedia Foundation to a beta version of the upcomingMediaWiki 1.16 software.[1] Although some of the most important 1.16 changes had already been applied to the server park, this was the first major software update since July 2009, when MediaWiki 1.15 was released. The switch itself was relatively uneventful and Wikipedia was back in business after just a few hours. As expected after 10 months of development, a substantial amount of problems and oversights were discovered in the hours and days following the switch to the new software.
Several problems in wikis of languages such as Malay.
You can find details about the MediaWiki 1.16 changes in therelease notes and some highlights follow:
The order of the "diff" and "history" links was switched on Contributions pages in order to be consistent with the Recent Changes views and the Watchlist.Bug 2971
Math images now have a transparent background.Bug 8
First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace settingBug 13750
Rewritten Special:Upload that is more extensible and has improved warning and error reporting.
You can no longer upload files of one file type on top of a file of another filetype.
Other changes
On 7 April, a security issue with the login process was discovered and fixed.[2][3] The fix caused many bots to temporarily be offline, but software updates for the major bot frameworks, such asAWB andPywikipedia, were quickly released by the maintainers of the various bot frameworks.
Daniel Kinzler (WMDE) announced the availability of thePagedTiffHandler extension. This new extension will allow the creation of thumbnails for (paged)TIFF files and was developed byHallo Welt under contract ofWikimedia Germany. When the code is fully reviewed by the Wikimedia Foundation staff, it is hoped that this extension will be deployed on Wikimedia Commons. This will fulfill a longstanding request by theimage restorationists for support of the TIFF format that their source material and restoration work normally use.[4]
