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Users who have newly registered on a wiki with e-mail confirmation enabled (such as the English Knowledge), if they have provided an e-mail address, will be notified of the confirmation e-mail once it has been sent. Users attempting to confirm their e-mail addresses will also now be warned if a
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Edit counts are now finally available directly from the database. There is not yet a software interface to display them, but they should soon be usable for many heuristics where they were previously not efficient enough to use (such as for when a user becomes "autoconfirmed" and is able to move
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Users whose passwords were reset can now only log in using their temporary e-mailed passwords. The password entered by the resetting sysop will not be valid. Also, their e-mail addresses will no longer revert to being unconfirmed. (Brion Vibber,
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Note that a number of features were added recently that required database schema changes. They may not go live for a few days or even longer, until the databases can be updated, and neither will any other changes made since
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When viewing a user's contributions, "next 50" will actually get the next 50 contributions. Previously it retrieved only the next 49 revisions, with the last revision of the current page as the 50th. (Ashar Voultoiz,
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The undo link in edit histories now appears even on the current revision. It had previously been omitted there because its effect was essentially the same as clicking the "edit" link on the left-hand revision.
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Edit summaries now treat wikilinks beginning with a colon the same way as they're treated in ordinary wikitext (i.e., the colon suppresses special behavior but is otherwise ignored). (
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The count showing how many characters changed in an edit now appears for page moves, page creations, and log entries. It also now works correctly in "enhanced" recent changes. (
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It is now possible for a sysop, when deleting a page, to check a box to watch it. The box may be checked by default as a user preference. (
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A new extension, UserImages, dynamically creates a gallery of all images uploaded by a user. It is not enabled on any
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Incorrect behavior for user pages in a corner case where users might have names ending in
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Using a new extension, it is now possible for logged-in users to dismiss site notices. (
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for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
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will now have a URL that can be copied and pasted for links. (Previously it used
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pages). They will also likely be viewable somehow through the wiki interface. (
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confirmation e-mail was sent for their account recently. (Brion Vibber,
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now displays a link to allow users to navigate to the previous page. (
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Some updates were made to non-English messages, specifically:
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extension enabled, anonymous users can no longer avoid
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Internationalization help is always appreciated! See
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Contribute
PDF download
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Mastodon
LinkedIn
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X (Twitter)
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r18226
Brion Vibber
r18325
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bug 2259
r18307
r18319
r18320
r18320
poems
Wikisource
Steve Sanbeg
bug 7503
r18340
site notice
Rob Church
bug 8153
r18390
ConfirmEdit

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