Proceedings of Wikitech-l
MediaWiki nominated for prize, new database dumps available
This week on Wikitech-l, time was a regular problem, new dumps were created, the use of meta templates was questioned, encrypted editing was brought up, CVS access was again requested and denied, a German proposal for article standardization was made, MediaWiki got nominated for an award, private user data was asked for, and a number of features were requested.
Time—and its unwillingness to follow the usual "flowing forward only" paradigm—was an issue on more than one occasion. The date on a number of servers was set incorrectly for some time to the year 2025, which caused some minor problems. There was also an issue of edit histories flowing in the wrong direction on some articles.