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*Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.*

*Recent changes*

- RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128326 - [image: Advanced item] MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logging_infrastructure_design_document.pdf - [image: Advanced item] codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2019-January/002045.html - [image: Advanced item] On several wikis, an account named "Abuse filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212268 for more information and future plans.

*Problems*

- [image: Advanced item] In AbuseFilter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter/Actions#Throttling. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P7956. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209565

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.12 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-January/091280.html for time and date.

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