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v4.5.2.1704 (2017-04-26)

Wiki

  • Package: Publish 2017-04 English Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis

PC

minor

  • Full-text search: Tweak UI including consistently-sized wikis, borders around snips, and vertical-centering for snip num.
  • Search: Include pages with scores of 10,000 or less.
Example: list byzantine emperors; list latin proverbs.
  • Scribunto.Common: Fix script error 'Country data' on many en.w game pages.
Message: =Module:CountryData:12 bad argument: string expected, got nil
Resolved by: Return error message if title is invalid.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
  • Parser.Time: Fix script error 'Check date value in access date' on many en.w page.
Message: Check date values in: |access-date=
Resolved by: Ignore multiple years / multiple days when parsing date for #time function.
Example: {{#time:Y-m-d|12 November 2016 2008}} {{#time:Y-m-d|2 12 November 2016}}.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipas,_Cotabato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
  • Scribunto.Uniq: Handle '[convert invalid number]' on some en.w pages. {detected by khanhhung2512 }
Resolved by: Add more support for UNIQ substitutions with extension tags.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/Ethanol
  • Scribunto.Uniq: Fix script errors for chart on a few dozen en.w pages.
Message: Module:Chart:212 group names should contain (2)
Resolved by: Change UNIQ marker to include quotes.
Example: '\"`UNIQ--item-0-QINU`\"'.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/Fokus_(magazine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_film_solar_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Greece
  • Scribunto.Uniq: Fix script error on a few dozen en.w pages on American soccer.
Message: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 282
Resolved by: Replace xtag_bgn / xtag_end with UNIQ.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/2015_San_Jose_Earthquakes_season
  • Scribunto.Regex: Fix script error '=Module:fr-verb:249 Internal error: expected pronunciation' on many en.d page in French section.
Message: =Module:fr-verb:249 Internal error: expected pronunciation "tʁae" to end with "je"
Resolved by: If gsub_replace lua proc returns nothing, do not replace with empty string.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tracer https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bitter https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voir
  • Luaj: Fix script error '=Module:zh-glyph:120 attempt to concatenate nil and string' on a few hundred en.d pages for Chinese chars.
Message: =Module:zh-glyph:120 attempt to concatenate nil and string [broken since: stack]
Resolved by: Add more logic for surrogate pairs (2-length chars).
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/儉 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/僮 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/僉 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/僅 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/佻
  • Scribunto.Regex: Fix script error '=Module:ru-pron:827 Number of parts of speech' on a few dozen en.d page in Russian section.
Message: =Module:ru-pron:827 Number of parts of speech (4) should match number of words (5)
Resolved by: Add only first match for mw.ustring.match, not all of them.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/действительное_причастие_настоящего_времени
  • Parser.Table: Fix premature short paragraphs on some pages.
Resolved by: Close previous paragraph when starting table.
Example: [[A]] b\n{| -> <p>[[A]] b</p> x> <p>[[A]]\n<p>b.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_engine_(web)
  • Wikibase.Coordinate: Reverse NS / EW direction for geocoordinates; also, standardize spacing / symbols for wikibase.
Message: =Module:Location map:353 Malformed coordinates value
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulme_Arch_Bridge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5936167 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
  • Wikibase.Scribunto: Fix '{{#statements}}' showing up in page.
Resolved by: Support #statements keyword.
Example: {{#statements:P6|from=Q668}}.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
  • Scribunto.Site: Fix script error 'scn.wikipedia.org' on a few en.w page.
Message: =Module:Interwiki/data:42 could not find a host in URL 'scn.wikipedia.org'; please check your wiki's interwiki data
Resolved by: Use fully-qualified url for url property, not domain.
Example: url -> https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 x> scn.wikipedia.org.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōkai_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_lane
  • Scribunto.Lang: Fix script error 'No name for language egy' on 1 en.w page.
Message: =Module:language:121 No name for the language egy could be found ;
Resolved by: Return 1st three letters of unknown language codes, not blank.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country-name_etymologies
  • Parser.Xml: Fix script error 'Unable to convert section' on 1 en.w page.
Message: =Module:Decimals:10 Unable to convert "Expression error: Unrecognized word "section>"." to a number
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
  • Parser.Date: Parse times with format of 'm/d/yyyy' where d == 13.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/tongue-in-chic https://en.wiktionary.org/serve_up
  • Personal_wikis: Do not prompt for upgrading to latest search database version when first using search.
Resolved by: Create personal wikis with latest search database schema.

trivial

  • Mass_parse: Do not fail when generating full-text search indexes.
  • Mass_parse: Embed page_score in full-text search index.
  • Scribunto.Regex: Demote message level of "regex is invalid" from warn to log.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/仝

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