User blog:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: April 16, 2013

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

Major Bugs Fixed

 * Searches were failing when the search term contained no Latin-script characters. This fix is already live.
 * The source mode link suggestion dropdown will no longer overlap the cursor when near the bottom of the page.
 * Additional fixes for instances where the visual editor can incorrectly add linespaces in tables.

Other Notable Changes

 * Grunny's script to automatically create your user page on a wiki has been released on the Wikia Developer's Wiki. This script can be added to your personal JS and gives you a "Create user page" link under your username drop-down. See the script page on the wiki for more information.
 * Note: there is much more on the Wikia Developer's Wiki that may be of interest for anyone more technically-minded. Visit dev.wikia.com to find out more.

Select Known Issues

 * While viewing an article, categories inherited from templates may appear to vanish if you use the category tool to add a new category. This is only a visual issue - refreshing the page will show them again.

Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to us via Special:Contact.