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.
{{FULLPAGENAME}}
and similar magic words when the page name looks like a URL. (r36233, bug 14511)[[link]]'s
is now equivalent to [[link|link's]]
. (Previously, this worked for letters but not for apostrophes.) (r36253, bug 468)
Discuss this story