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As a result of the IP snafu, which occurred on Friday at about 17:30 UTC, few users (mostly AOL users) were able to access the site, while most others were blocked. Developers made the decision to put all databases into read-only mode until the route was restored around 19:55 UTC; write access was
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for November 2005 to August 2006, covering major hardware and software changes. Image hosting systems are one of the next purchases planned, after high-performance caching and application hardware and Foundry routing hardware were purchased earlier this year.
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Three tables have been added to the MediaWiki database structure since MediaWiki 1.6. These links are meant to contain more information either untracked, or in other locations in previous releases.
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All Wikimedia projects were briefly locked down after most users were unable to access the site. The reason, according to developer
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Requesting a password by e-mail when an e-mail address is not set results in an error message, rather than a false "success" message
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Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page -
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enabled shortly afterward. A new IP space was given to Wikimedia, and the old space is or will soon be unavailable.
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Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update default message text
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style links to the pagelinks table; i.e. such links now show up in Whatlinkshere.
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A new "querycache_info" table stores information on query page updates
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said that developers were looking into obtaining a permanent IP space
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Validate email address before sending email confirmation message
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A new "filearchive" table stores information on deleted files
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