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By TheDJ

Usability beta supplemental release

The previously announced enhancements to the Usability beta were deployed last week by the Usability Team. The new iframe editor caused considerably more problems than anticipated and had many editors confused. Users were advised through a watchlist notice to disable the Beta if they were experiencing problems. The developers are keeping score on the progress they are making in solving the problems of this latest release in a blogpost.

Software changes

  • A bug that caused 1.3 million revisions from 2005 to appear as blank pages has been fixed. (Bug 20757)
  • The API has been fixed (r62511) so as not to reveal the blocked IP range for autoblocks in a list=blocks query, and not to reveal autoblocks among a certain user's or IP's blocks. This mirrors the behaviour of Special:BlockList.

Bots approved

The following bots and tasks have been approved in the past two weeks:

  • DASHBot (Task 5) – Remove fair-use image outside article namespace.
  • SDPatrolBot II – Notify creators of articles tagged for CSD.
  • Yobot (Task 11) – Auto-untagging of orphans, deadend and uncategorised pages and remove expand tags if articles are stubs.
  • BotMultichillT – Clone of BotMultichilll.
  • PDBbot – Update Gene Wiki templates to point to new protein structure images.
  • WildBot (Task 4) – Bypass redirects tagged with {{R from incorrect name}}.
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  • there was some downtime on February 2nd but the ninjas in #wikimedia-tech fixed it before anyone noticed. Here is a screenshot I managed to grab of an uptime monitor in the middle of the incident. It was kind of neat to be in the IRC channel while the hamsters were mobilized. ⊂ Andyzweb ⊃ (Talk) 16:06, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • It would be nice if the developers could work on StringFunctions... (at this point it is de facto REOPENED but I don't have the cojones to change it myself; it also is moving slower than molasses in this weather.) --Thinboy00 @832, i.e. 18:57, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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