This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.44.0-wmf.8 (f08e6b3), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.

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• The new interface messages MediaWiki:Createaccount-title and MediaWiki:Createaccount-text have been added, which control the title and content of the email that's sent out when an account is created for another user via Wikipedia:Request an account; previously, they were the same as the password reminder emails. (r27643, bug 3973)
• The new shortcut Special:Listbots has been added as a redirect to Special:Listusers/bot. (Redirects in the Special: namespace need a developer to set up.) (r27704, bug 12028)
• When visiting Special:Upload for a previously deleted image (for instance, after clicking on an image redlink), the image's deletion log is now shown on that page, the same way as for non-Image:-namespace pages; this is customisable via MediaWiki:Upload-wasdeleted. (r26175, bug 6909)
• api.php now honours the 'maxlag' parameter the same way as non-API accesses to wiki pages do. (r27630, bug 11206)
• A drop-down menu of common deletion reasons is now available in the software to administrators, so that scripts no longer need be used for this purpose, the same way as with block messages; the list is customisable via MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown. (r27832, bug 9633)

• Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.