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to ensure that titles containing right-to-left characters do not display oddly. This was causing problems, because it was easy to copy and paste the title including the invisible mark, rendering it nonfunctional. Now the mark should be ignored, hopefully reducing confusion.
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Another new extension, Contributors, was also checked into Subversion. If enabled, it will generate a list of significant contributors to a particular article. The list can be accessed directly or {{included}} in other pages. Some functionality exists for this in the main
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When a user attempts to upload a file with an invalid file extension, now only the part of the extension that was invalid is mentioned in the error message. For instance, if the file extension was
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now work. Previously they were interpreted as an image width, even if an image width had been previously declared and even if the caption made no sense as an image width (e.g.,
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Clicking "watch" or "unwatch" at the top of a page (or in equivalent places, for non-Monobook skins) will now perform the requested action without leaving the page, using
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The "undo" button on the most recent revision now works. Due to a bug in the code, it originally filled the edit box with the
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software, but it is disabled on Knowledge due to its inefficiency. The extension has not yet been enabled on any wikis. (
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A recent change had unintentionally affected the layout of thumbnails. They should now display as they previously did. (
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enabled, users who are able to patrol their own edits now have all their edits marked patrolled. (
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that ensure that left-to-right text can be correctly mixed with right-to-left text such as
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Several improvements were made to the functioning of language variants, for wikis such as
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now has a "reason" field, and it is now possible to check for recent edits by 17-23 CIDR
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for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
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The full time and date will now be displayed when viewing a deleted revision. (
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File sizes will now be displayed in kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes on the
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now display the number of bytes added or removed by each change, just as
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as well as to check for the IP address used recently by a user. (
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The new recent changes counter will now count the length of added
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Some updates were made to non-English messages, specifically:
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as four characters, when actually many more were inserted. (
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Internationalization help is always appreciated! See
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Knowledge:Knowledge Signpost
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Contribute
PDF download
E-mail
Mastodon
LinkedIn
Facebook
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Reddit
Simetrical
edit patrolling
Rob Church
bug 5411
r18435
Dutch Knowledge
Rob Church
r18496
Subversion
Rob Church
r18453
MediaWiki
Rob Church
r18510
Safari
WebKit
archived story
Brion Vibber
r18459
substituted templates

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