Parser fixes

Brion Vibber has made various fixes to the parser in an attempt to remove the need for HTML Tidy, a software program that fixes HTML errors, but has various glitches. Many of the fixes involve problems with the parsing of extensions such as <ref>.

Last week in MediaWiki software

New functionality

• Smart edit summaries for redirect pages (i.e. "Redirecting to PAGENAME"). (Rob Church)
• Allow customisation of robot policies per-namespace. (Tim Starling)
• Add "edit based on this version" links to diff. views. (Jens Frank)
• Add job queue count to action=raw output on Special:Statistics. (Tim Starling)
• ((#language:)) magic word added. For example, ((#language:es)) produces español. (Rob Church)

Bug fixes

• Ensure that page links viewed after undeleting a page always appear as blue links. (Rob Church)
• Improve handling of large data sets when adding template links updates to the job queue. (Brion Vibber)

Last week in servers

• Portal namespace conflicts fixed on Chinese Wikipedia
• bart added to installation group, allowing it to receive software updates with other servers.
• New motherboard installed on srv3, new drive and OS installed on srv119
• "Wikipedia Incubator" created as alternative to initially keeping new languages on Meta.
• 19 new Wikisources added.
• New drive and OS installed on srv51.