Technology report
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
As always, it may take some time for software changes to go live on the site. This week may take a particularly long time, because changes must be made to the very large revision table (well over 100,000,000 rows for the English Wikipedia alone). (The large revision-deletion change committed recently needs to be reviewed by a core developer before it can be activated, but it was rolled back temporarily so the code can go live before then.)
A contractor, Joerg Baach, was hired to work on an implementation of the "stable versions" concept, that would present only reviewed versions of pages to users who did not explicitly request the very latest (possibly unreviewed) revision.