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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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