(I'm taking a two week hiatus from banging the 1.17 tarball release drum. It'll be be back next week. In the meantime, have a look at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/26676) Earlier this week, I gave you my list of bugs marked “highest” priority, but two devs that I have an enormous amount of respect for pointed out gaping holes in my list and made it practically non-existent. So, tonight, I've gone through the next level of bugs trying to find the ones that I thought should be the “highest” priority. But first, If you'd like to look at the two lists I put out earlier this week here are links to the messages: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/52549 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/52568 Now, the new “highest” priority bugs. Bug# Description 2888 Broken thumbnails not being generated https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/2888 It isn't clear that this one is still happening, and later comments may have turned this into an “SVG doesn't thumbnail bug” which would make this a dupe of (probably) #8566 6100 Allow different directionality (rtl/ltr) for user interface and wiki content depending on user preferences language and &uselang https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/6100 I worked on something related to this bug last year (maybe fixing it?) and the bug has plenty of patches available if more work is needed. This one seems worth the effort. 14629 Titleblacklist entires with <newaccountonly> should affect automatically created accounts with SUL too https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/14629 Still popping up as recently as last November. Interest has been shown, not-quite-total fixes applied, but still it remains. 18682 Can't provide alt text for files in <gallery> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/18682 I like Maria's comment: I know that moaning won’t get this bug fixed, but I am desperate. I was quite happy when galleries were finally free of layout tables (#3276). However, gallery is as useless as before without the possibility to add alternative text to the images. The more images you have in an article, the more missing alt texts are annoying. And usually articles containing a lot of images (e.g. about paintings) are using galleries. 19161 Auto account creation creates privacy vulnerability https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/19161 I think this one is fixed but I'm relying on you to help me determine what, if anything, still needs to happen. This is refered to in #23126 as well. 21919 Google News SiteMap Extension https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/21919 Bawolff has already done a lot of work on this to bring it up to snuff. He now need another developer to review his code and approve it for deployment or tell him what needs to be fixed. 23126 Locked and hidden accounts can unify new local accounts https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/23126 Tim says this is apparently a deliberate chage, and later comments leave me confused: should this be closed or the fix for this bug reverted? Let me know what you think of this latest batch of bugs. Are they worthy of the attention? Mark.