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that they edited from will be immediately blocked. Previously, it was possible for a blocked user to log out without editing anything and then edit anonymously; this would only be stopped by an autoblock if the user attempted to edit a page before logging out. As an added bonus,
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CĂ©dric submitted a correction to the Occitan user and user talk namespaces, which were changed from Utilisator to Utilizaire and Discussion Utilisator to Discussion Utilizaire by Rotem Liss in
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Edit summary reminders are no longer displayed for null edits (edits which change nothing and do not appear in revision histories), for users with this option enabled. (
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symbol in them will be permitted to log in for the time being, but at some point in the indefinite future it's possible that they'll be renamed. The similar-looking
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In response to abuse of the password reminder by blocked IP addresses that repeatedly requested password reminders for other users to harass them (
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Thanks for the detailed report! This is so much more useful than previous "list" reports full of unexplained technical jargon. Nice work! –
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that caused the horizontal bars in section headings to visibly pass through floated tables in Monobook was fixed by Simetrical in
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now allows users to specify that they should receive e-mail notification for changes to their talk page there, like Meta. (
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was that a common cause of unneeded blocks was users signing up with e-mail addresses as their names, against
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on the mailing list as to what changes exactly should be made to the code to strike the right balance between
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Error messages for uploading of files from URL (not currently enabled on Knowledge (XXG)) were improved. (
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Some changes were made to non-English messages. Internationalization help is always appreciated! See
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Autoblocks now block account creation if the block that they resulted from had that bit set (
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When viewing a diff, minor edits are now marked as such next to their edit summaries. (
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Minor edits by bots to talk pages no longer trigger the "you have new messages" notice (
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The only significant software improvement made this week was retroactive autoblocking (
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The edit summary box was expanded to 80% of available screen width by Nick Jenkins in
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tags, the one containing the contents of the reference no longer needs to be first (
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character is now forbidden in usernames, with Brion Vibber having blacklisted it in
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requested thousands of passwords for various users over the course of days. Sysop
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The block log now states whether a block has autoblocks enabled or not. (
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tags have been made less technical and more descriptive by Simetrical in
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is now much faster, due to the indices that this modification required.
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in the display of uppercase Greek letters in mathematical formulas, and
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receiving almost a thousand password reminders from that IP in a week.)
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The 'w' and 'd' shortcut keys now no longer have conflicting uses (
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A number of minor tweaks were made to the interface this week:
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for how complete the translations of languages you know are.
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character FF20, "full-width commercial at") is not banned.
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Additionally, various new features were added, including:
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Media files have their own heading on category pages. (
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Two grammatical errors in English messages were fixed. (
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Dozens of new mathematical symbols have been added for
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by Andrew Garrett. When a user is blocked, the last
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HĂĄvard Wall submitted a long list of changes to the
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