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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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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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The Cortado player (used to play .ogg files) now stops at the right moment rather than continuing for several minutes on low-performance computers. (
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The length (in characters) of a block expiry time is now limited to 50 characters, to prevent it corrupting the display of the block log. (
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Empty subcategories now have the message stating that they are empty with certain combinations of options that were buggy beforehand. (
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The new toolserver URL has been whitelisted so that linking to the toolserver does not trigger CAPTCHAs for anonymous users. (
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Several bugs were fixed in the CategoryTree extension (which shows hierarchical lists of subcategories on category pages):
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The meta=siteinfo API query now returns a wiki's timezone and writing direction (UTC and left-to-right for enwiki). (
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was fixed; previously many more complicated constructions failed to parse due to mistakes in the way it was parsed. (
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The link now links to the category it references when JavaScript is not enabled, rather than doing nothing. (
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Subcategories with no subsubcategories now no longer show a link to display their subsubcategories. (
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The Cortado player's control bar no longer covers the bottom of a video it's playing. (
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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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Global accounts can now only be administered by stewards, not by Meta bureaucrats. (
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When a page is created and then immediately moved, its new title now appears in
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Unprotecting an unprotected page no longer creates a log entry. (
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Subcategories are now shown in normal font rather than in bold. (
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Double-escaping was fixed in the RSS feed for log entries. (
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bug 12716
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