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There is currently a bug with image thumbnailing that's affecting large numbers of images, causing them to not display in pages. The bug was caused at least partly by a server running out of disk space; system administrators are currently trying to fix the problem. As a workaround in the meantime, if
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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 necessarily live as of press time; the English Knowledge (XXG) is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.23 (a5827e3), and changes to the software
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can now be sorted in reverse alphabetical or reverse chronological order (previously only forward alphabetical and chronological sort orders were supported). (
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The 'Return to' link that appears in some error messages (for instance, when a non-admin tries to edit a protected page) now no longer incorrectly links to
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with a 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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tag is not given entirely in lowercase, this now no longer causes incorrect uppercase characters to appear in the class name of the generated content. (
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of the image's image description page often solves the problem for that image. (For more information, see
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that showed redirects pointing to a target that they in fact did not point to has been fixed. (
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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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and its subpages), six more groups of subpages have been
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tag when the widths= option is given has been improved. (
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The API now allows an image's metadata to be queried. (
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bug 7890
r25873
bug 11351
API query for the members of a category
r25726
bug 11275
r25812
bug 11308
Main Page
r25863
bug 11342
robots.txt
WP:AFD
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