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Local block of 180.214.232.49 not expiring on outreach.wikimedia
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https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3A180.214.232.49&type=block says:

22:28, 22 July 2018 Jeff G. talk contribs block blocked 180.214.232.49 talk with an expiration time of 6 months (anonymous users only, account creation disabled, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (Commuted to 6 months anon only per WIkimedia:Village pump#IP blocks.) (unblock | change block)
03:38, 18 November 2017 Jeff G. talk contribs block blocked 180.214.232.49 talk with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (Clearly not here to contribute) (unblock | change block)
01:31, 10 November 2017 Jeff G. talk contribs block blocked 180.214.232.49 talk with an expiration time of 1 week (anonymous users only, account creation disabled) (Vandalism) (unblock | change block)

6 months should have expired on 2019 Jan 22nd.

Event Timeline

Change 610089 had a related patch set uploaded (by DannyS712; owner: DannyS712):
[mediawiki/core@master] Add purgeExpiredBlocks maintenance script

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/610089

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Patch added to add a maintenance script, running that on outreachwiki should be remove the block

Change 610089 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Add purgeExpiredBlocks maintenance script

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/610089

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I ran the essence of that script against outreachwiki earlier, so the block should've been removed now

I filed T257473: Periodically run purgeExpiredBlocks.php maintenance script for trying to prevent this happening again in future