Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-04-11

The TechCom planning meeting is a weekly invite-only video discussion, generally held on Wednesday 13:00 USA Pacific Time.
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)

• IRC Meeting hosted for: MediaWiki's anonymous edit token leaves wiki installations (incl. Wikipedia) open to mass anonymous spam we can't block https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40417 Minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-04-11-21.01.html
• Next iteration of ICU migration in progress - once done we can upgrade the application servers - won’t have php5 anywhere anymore
• MediaWiki 1.31 code freeze on 16th April.