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This new configuration requires new features, which in turn required substantial code changes to Flagged Revisions. For technical reasons, we can’t release that code just to the English Knowledge, so we will upgrade all copies of Flagged Revisions in use on Wikimedia Foundation projects. Happily,
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In the event, there were no catastrophic errors, though a number of significant bugs - some related to the English Knowledge's chosen setup, others not so much - needed to be ironed out before usage of the system on the English Knowledge could begin.
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We believe this won’t cause any trouble, but if bugs do crop up, we’d like to hear about them. Our team will be standing by, prepared to fix any small issues immediately, or roll back if there are any big problems.
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has now reported the problem fixed. It is unlikely that any fix would apply retrospectively, but new dates will be recorded correctly.
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Note: not all fixes may have gone live to WMF sites at time of writing, or may not in fact be scheduled to go live for many weeks.
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trial went live in parts throughout June 14. Developer William Pietri described how the changeover would take place in a
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For a while this week page view statistics (collected officially but most commonly viewed on external tools like
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Revision deletion is no longer the default 'enter' action on administrators' page histories (bug #23747)
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Revision 67975 has gone live, meaning Wikimedia no longer uses the form validation facility built into
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oh hell yeah. For people like me that tend to use that shortcut often, it was such a pain.
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that will result in a number of minor improvements for all Flagged Revisions users.
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is no longer the default 'enter' action on administrators' page histories (bug #
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has been closed as fixed, allowing for proper handling of <noinclude: -->
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For a non-technical perspective on the developments, see this week's
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