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This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Knowledge. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Knowledge is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.24 (72fea51), and changes to the software with a
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Account autocreations (that is, when a user with a global account visits a Wikimedia wiki they haven't formerly visited, thus causing a local account to be created for them on that wiki) now do not show in
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Logging in now logs a user in on all wikis (rather than all wikis on the same domain) if that user has a single-user-login global account (except non-Wikimedia wikis and some wikis on .wikimedia.org).
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When not previously logged in on any wiki, a global account can now correctly log in on a wiki which that user had never visited previously, rather than getting a bad-CAPTCHA error message. (
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It is now impossible to create an account that has the same name as a global account (this was always meant to be impossible, but previously could happen from time to time). (
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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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When rolling back an edit, the screen that appears to let a user know that the rollback has happened now shows the diff of what the rollback did. (
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now correctly links to images, rather than sometimes confusing an image on the English Knowledge with an image with the same name on Commons. (
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Logging out now logs a global user out from all the Wikimedia wikis involved in the automatic cross-wiki login. (
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A (nonfunctional) rollback link no longer appears for non-admin rollbackers on protected pages. (
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A new extension (TorBlock) has been installed, to regulate edits of Knowledge through
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Only confirmed email addresses are now used to unify accounts into a global account. (
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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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tags can now handle links to images containing URL-encoded special characters. (
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now does the rename rather than opening the user's block log. (
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Many bugs in Single User Login were fixed this week:
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now works on the API, as well as for normal edits. (
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http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14300
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ais523
r35340
bug 14248
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bug 12098
Special:Recentchanges
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r35441
bug 14299
r35506
bug 14317
r35533
bug 14301
Special:MergeAccount
bug 14300
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14300
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r35472
bug 12038
r35571

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