Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

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