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Tech News: 2024-41
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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Updates for editors
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Updates for technical contributors
- Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be throttled for a few minutes. After which normal access to Gerrit and GitLab is possible again. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, visit Wikitech:Firewall#Throttling_with_nftables, Wikitech:GitLab/Abuse_and_rate_limiting and Wikitech:Gerrit/Operations#Throttling_IPs.
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