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This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Knowledge (XXG). Note that not all changes described here are live as of press time; the English Knowledge (XXG) is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.23 (a5827e3), and changes to the software with a
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Recently, there were some major changes to the code that handled images (the display of the image's information in a table below the image was the most obvious effect). This fixed some bugs, and caused some more which have now been fixed:
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When (due to a server problem or similar situation) the wiki has to be temporarily placed into read-only mode, the error message upon trying to edit now displays correctly. (
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Anonymous users (and other users who aren't allowed to create pages, such as blocked users) now again get an error message and no edit form if they try to create a page. (
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The "show preview on first edit" preference now shows a preview of the preloaded text when a link to edit a new page with preload text is used. (
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are used to format a section title, the same formatting is now used in the Table of Contents entry corresponding to that section title. (
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When uploading an image so as to overwrite an existing image, the image showing a preview of the image now again shows correctly. (
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now have titles distinct from the page they refer to (most browsers display a page's title in their title bar). (
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now links to the image's file history, which is now on the page (it wasn't there previously) (
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to access information about old versions of an image now again gives the correct results. (
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for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
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Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See
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The 'file history' link at the top of an image description page for an image on
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version number higher than that will not yet be active.
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ais523
r25208
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r25212
bug 11072
Commons
bug 7190
r25236
bug 11095
r25293
bug 11114
r25374
bug 11140
Special:Whatlinkshere
Special:Recentchangeslinked
r25245
bug 11022
r25260
bug 8393

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