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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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extension has been enabled on the English Knowledge (XXG); the extension allows audio and video in the Ogg Theora, Vorbis, Speex and FLAC formats to be added to articles in much the same way as images, and will try various methods of playback for such files depending on what a user's browser
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supports. The syntax to include audio and/or video is ], the same syntax as for images, and options can be given in a similar way. Video and audio templates have been changed to the new format, so there might be some technical difficulties for the next few days. For more information, see
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5.5 and 6; without the workaround, the images display with opaque backgrounds on those browsers. In order to completely resolve PNG display issues in Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer users are encouraged to
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When a new section of a page is created using the '+' tab, the edit summary no longer has to be identical to the section header; the exact form of the new automatic summary can be customized by admins via
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that displays when a user tries to edit a page is now given a parameter that allows that message to distinguish whether the page was protected or semi-protected. (
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now contains an option cmprop=timestamp to return each category member's recategorisation timestamp, and an option to sort the results by timestamp. (
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version number higher than that will not yet be active; configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.
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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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It's now possible to exclude redirects or to exclude non-redirects from
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query the API to find out the SHA-1 hash of a version of an image
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A workaround has been added to the sitewide JavaScript (
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Several enhancements were made to the API this week:
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ais523
requests an edit token for a page via the API
r25581
bug 10898
API query for the members of a category
r25474
bug 10890
an API query for a page's what-links-here
r25476
bug 10980
query the API to find out the SHA-1 hash of a version of an image
r25456
bug 11115
MediaWiki:Newsectionsummary
r25573
bug 10836
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext
r25713
bug 11211
MediaWiki:Cantcreateaccount-text

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