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- Because of the
holidays
the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.
Recent changes
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (
<DynamicPageList>
) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.
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Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can
read more and let them know if you are interested
.
The Wikimedia
Cloud VPS
hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to
claim projects
they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.
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