Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-02/Technology report

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Simetrical

The default sort key of a page for categories can be changed using the new {{DEFAULTSORT}} magic word. For instance, on George Washington, {{DEFAULTSORT:Washington, George}} would cause a subsequent [[Category:United States presidents]] to be equivalent to [[Category:United States presidents|Washington, George]], not [[Category:United States presidents|George Washington]]. This is especially useful when the article belongs in many categories.(Rob Church, bug 5908, r18629)

A bug that caused incorrect display of autosummaries containing line breaks for IRC recent-changes bots was fixed. (Simetrical, bug 8304, r18500)

A bug that could cause incorrect display of the logo on right-to-left wikis that had customized the sidebar was fixed. (Brion Vibber, bug 8427, r18646)

The table-sorting script was upgraded to an improved version and adjusted somewhat. In particular, this eliminates two bugs: if a cell in the first row of the table contains whitespace, that does not force the rest of the column to sort alphabetically; and percentages now sort numerically. (Joost de Valk and Simetrical, bugs 8154 and 8155, r18775)

A few interface changes were made:

• Minor edits can now be hidden from the watchlist via a checkbox. (Rob Church, bug 8018, r18640)
• When bureaucrats rename users, they can now check a box to automatically move all of the user's pages and subpages to the new name. (Simetrical, bug 3519, r18649; interface and code improvements by Rob Church, r18649–53)
• When editing a page, the list of templates at the bottom now indicates whether the template is protected or not. (Mark Haidar/Fyren, bug 8392, r18682)
• When moving a page, an option to watch the target and redirect is now available. (Rob Church, bug 8461, r18773)

Some updates were made to non-English messages, specifically:

• Cantonese (thanks to Shinjiman)
• Czech (thanks to Li-sung)
• Finnish (thanks to Niklas Laxström)
• French (thanks to Bertrand Grondin)
• German (thanks to Raymond and Leon Weber)
• Hebrew (thanks to Rotem Liss)
• Japanese (thanks to kaikkd)
• Lithuanian (thanks to Edgaras)
• Russian (thanks to Alexander Sigachov)

Internationalization help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to Mediazilla.

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Dear sir,

First of all, thank you for all the work that you do for the community.

I am not sure if I am posting this question on the right place, but since you are the creator of this extraeditbuttons.js and I am unable to find the answer to my question elsewhere, please accept my appology for intruding into your page.

I would love to have these extra buttons on my MediaWiki edit box, but I am such a novice that I don't know how to.

I pasted the "simple code" on Special:Mypage/mystyle.js but nothing favorable happened.

Then after a while of searching, I finally ended up on the actual code that starts with <pre> and ends with </pre>, which was provided by you.

I assume I need to copy the large code into a file named extraeditbuttons.js and place it somewhere, then enter the "simple code" into Special:Mypage/mystyle.js.

Am I totally off?

Would you please be so kind to tell me

if I can actually use this code within my MediaWiki

and if so, where should I place the file?

Your kind help will be received with much appreciation.

Sincerely,

--Kohyin 00:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Uh, is this meant for me? I didn't write extraeditbuttons.js, in fact I'm not sure I've even heard of it. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 19:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I guess I got lost... I followed the links in search of a help, link after link and I got here...I am sorry for unnecessary intrusion.--Kohyin 21:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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