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Recent changes
- Timestamps in Special:Log
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Changes later this week
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<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2020_Purge> they
use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year.
Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can
be deleted from 1 January. [2]
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