Wikinews:Wikinews Bulletin/2007-4/tech

Technical Updates and Revisions
By Thunderhead, July 19, 2007


 * A new magic word has been added to all Wikimedia wikis:  allows for changes in a page's displayed title.


 * A new MediaWiki message Mediawiki:Sp-contributions-explain has been created, which adds extra information to Special:Contributions.


 * It's now possible to style and tags using the same style= attribute as is used on HTML tags like and.


 * Previews of the licence tags available on Special:Upload are now shown when selected, providing extra legal information about the tags.


 * A new feature, Special:DeletedContributions has been added to Wikimedia wikis, which allows sysops to see deleted contributions of any user.

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