[Wikipedia-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Software updates

[Anthere]

--- Anthere <anthere6 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> > We're now up to the latest Wikipedia software
> > version on the English  
> > Wikipedia. Some changes I and others made in the
> > last weeks:
> > 
> > 1) There is a new feature called "oldest articles"
> > (colloq. "ancient  
> > pages"). Currently this inevitably lists first all
> > the imported articles  
> > from the phase I software that have not been
> edited
> > yet ever since.  
> > Hopefully, as these become updated, this feature
> > will allow us to  
> > systematically go through our old material and
> make
> > sure it is in good  
> > shape and up to date.
> > 
> > 2) Sysops will note that the page deletion feature
> > now auto-pastes the  
> > content of pages that are smaller than 500 bytes
> > into the deletion comment  
> > (only the first 150 characters). It also does so
> if
> > the current revision  
> > is blanked and the previous revision contains text
> > that can be pasted.
> > 
> > 3) The deletion feature now indicates if you are
> > about to delete a page  
> > that has a history.
> > 
> > 4) The "New pages" list now shows the bytesize of
> > each page, making it  
> > easier to pick nice, long articles for the Main
> > Page.
> > 
> > 5) Some minor layout stuff, some by me, some by
> > others. Notably, the ugly  
> > "It was last modified" sentence at the bottom of
> > each page has been fixed.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Erik
> 
> Is it planned to make it available to other wikis as
> well ? 2 and 3 in particular
> 
> Ant

I think my question was missed. Probably because I
adressed it to the wrong list.

International people are wondering when the last
english features will be applied to other phase III
wikipedias. Is there anything we should provide you to
help there ?

Ant

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