Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-06/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Ral315, 6 February 2006

Last (two) weeks in servers

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

• January 26 — ImageMagick 6.2.6 installed on all servers.
• January 26 — Spam blacklist disabled, following reports of bugs.
• January 28 — AFD, VFD, and other deletion pages added to Wikipedia's Robots.txt file.
• January 29 — Captcha images added to registration and some editing pages on smaller Wikimedia projects.
• January 30 — Blank passwords disabled (see related story)
• February 1 — Message trimmed from wikimediafr-l mailing list for privacy reasons.

Also this week: From the editor — Userbox warring — Password security — ArbCom update — Cartoon chaos — Politicians and Wikipedia — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.