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Special pages got no update for more than three days on Chinese Wikipedia
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Special pages are updated via UpdateSpecialPages.php on a regular basis (should be every 3 days if information is not obsolete). However, a user reported several special pages, including Special:Uncategorizedcategories, Special:Uncategorizedpages and Special:Wantedcategories, got no update for more than 3 days (to be specific, 6 days since "last updated at 2022-04-28T22:10:08").

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Seems to have been updated just now.

taavi edited projects, added WMF-General-or-Unknown; removed WMF-JobQueue.
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The update_special_pages job is indeed supposed to run every 3 days (technically this is every 1st, 4th, 7th, ... of every month via a systemd timer, the wikitech page you found is a bit outdated).

I did a bit of digging into the logs and found that on 2022-05-01 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2022-05-01_etcd happened roughly at the same time than when update_special_pages was running. The etcd issue made all mediawiki maintenance scripts crash as they failed to fetch database configuration.