The Signpost

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs and Internal Operational News

Pending changes goes live

The technical basis for the pending changes trial went live in parts throughout June 14. Developer William Pietri described how the changeover would take place in a Wikimedia techblog post:


In the event, there were no catastrophic errors, though a number of significant bugs - some related to the English Wikipedia's chosen setup, others not so much - needed to be ironed out before usage of the system on the English Wikipedia could begin.

For a non-technical perspective on the developments, see this week's news and notes. Bot operators may also like to take a look at some ideas for new pending changes-related bots here.

Page view statistics broken and fixed

For a while this week page view statistics (collected officially but most commonly viewed on external tools like http://stats.grok.se ) were much lower than expected (up to 80 or more percent so). A number of possibilities were suggested for why this might be, but ultimately the answer lay in the amount of filespace available to the recording software. User:Midom has now reported the problem fixed. It is unlikely that any fix would apply retrospectively, but new dates will be recorded correctly.

In brief

Note: not all fixes may have gone live to WMF sites at time of writing, or may not in fact be scheduled to go live for many weeks.


















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