Hi,
I'm sending this email to request your help with...
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207648
We don't want non-confirmed users to see links from semiprotected
Wikipedia articles to their corresponding Wikidata items. This is a
well-known source of vandalism (and bad press) that is seriously
affecting Wikidata and some Wikipedias.
As Lydia describes on T205783,
"When contentious topics show up in the news vandalism on the Wikipedia
articles related to it usually shows up pretty quickly. The article then
might be protected for some time in order to prevent more vandalism. A
pattern we are seeing now is that people then move over to Wikidata and
continue their vandalism there. (This might then in turn lead to
vandalism showing up in the article anyway if it uses the data.) This
especially happens when an infobox has "edit on Wikidata" links or
something similar. We need to find a way to make this attack vector less
of a problem."
We don't want to hide these links from everyone, just from non-confirmed
users. We could write CSS rules for certain user groups, but this can
bring undesired side effects like giving all users the possiblity of
hiding arbitrary content (e.g., vandalism) from other users who should
be able to see it.
We also have `mw.title.protectionLevels["edit"]` in Lua, but this option
is documented as "expensive" and I can't guess what its impact could be
if applied on a large scale.
Any action or suggestion on how to achieve this is more than welcome.
Thanks in advance!
--
David Abián
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2018.10. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.30 and 1.31 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.
Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major
changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release.
Please give us your feedback at
[[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.10.tar…
* sha256sum: c0a65956d4f8e49ba1b401372636b9575a5c17fbf2501fa14ff1c265dd778862
* Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.10.tar…
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Highlights and upgrade notes ==
== Babel ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Update ISO 639 database from iso639-3.sil.org
* Keep BCP 47 and MediaWiki-internal codes separate (T199941)
== cldr ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Update to CLDR 34.0
== CleanChanges ==
* Maintainance updates only.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Remove PHP entry point. Please update your configuration!
* Fix handling of exception from GitHubFetcher. If l10n directory is
not found, it logs message and continue.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Show regular deletion form for pages that are never marked for translation.
* Page translation languages can be displayed in the sidebar.
* Various maintenance and stability updates.
* Fixed an error that prevented Special:PageMigration from working.
* TranslationStats' graphs now support high DPI displays using srcset.
* Database usage optimizations (run update.php!).
* Many special pages now look more consistent with other pages (OOUI).
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Remove PHP entry point. Please update your configuration!
* Support UI language change when Global Preferences are present. (T198206)
* Drop support for discontinued freegeoip.net.
* Correct alignment of cog in interlanguage links in Vector skin.
* ULS now sends Vary: Accept-Language header.
* Performance optimizations.
==== Input Methods ====
* Update Sarjom Baha layout.
--
Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી
kartikm.wordpress.com
Hi,
This Wednesday – as every week – there will be the Technical Advice IRC
meeting on #wikimedia-tech!
IMPORTANT:
Due to the end of the daylight saving time we have to change the time of
the meeting to *4 pm UTC*!
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer
developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help
you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This
can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best
contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hello. Please pay attention to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208074.
Looks serious. Some of interwiki links do not appear at all, in all
wikipedia projects.
Igal (User:IKhitron)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-20-24
=2018-10-24=
== Callouts ==
* Technical Engagement
** Google Code In <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in> starts on
Tuesday 2018-10-23 and runs until 2018-12-13. GCI is a contest to encourage
and inspire pre-university students to begin participating in open source
development. More mentors and tasks are needed! Read mentor instructions on
mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors> or
contact Andre Klapper to get involved.
* Release Engineering
** revision-create event date format has changed (we think) -- new format
example "2018-10-24T00:28:24.162300+00:00" -- if you know anything chime in
on task please https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817
** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus/+/468482 is
likely the culprit
== Audiences ==
=== Contributors ===
==== Community Tech ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
- TemplateWizard was released as a beta feature to all wikis
**
==== Anti-Harassment Tools ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
- Releasing Partial Blocks to beta. Some tests failed on
gate-and-submit CI process (specifically with postgres), we're dealing with
those.
- Discovered an inconsistency with the database layer, patch pending on
that: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/469324/
**
==== Editing ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking: Growth team on cross collaboration instrumentation
** Updates:
** Added VisualEditorFeatureUse schema
==== Growth ====
* Blocked by:
**We need security review of the GrowthExperiments extension
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207798
**RelEng figuring out how to unblock and merge
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/468171
**Editing on cross collaboration instrumentation
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**Copyvio bot logging trial concluded on enwiki should be live on Thursday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EranBot_3
**PageViews schema is on meta wiki
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageViews and we will start testing
in beta this week or early next week
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents/+/464…
==== Language ====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** ContentTranslation v2 work continue.
** Work on mediawiki-html-sanitizer library:
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-html-sanitizer
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** 6.1 with wikidata description editing & revert notifications in beta (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
** 6.1.1 (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1.1-narwhal-on-a-magic-pum…)
will
be a bug fix & tech debt release
** mobile editing research
==== Android native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
==== Readers Web ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
*** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro…
**** Complete webpack migration of mobile.startup T206169
**** Collapse mobile.search.util into mobile.startup T206027
**** Migrate PageGateway tests to node-qunit T206226
**** Use NPM for Hogan v2.0.0 T205128
*** Page issues
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
**** A/B test will conclude soon T200792
*** Maintenance and bug fixes T207423 T207480
*** Advanced mobile contributions
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
**** Design and product continuing special pages work in Minerva
** PDF rendering (Proton)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
*** Remaining work tracked in T186748
*** Rewrite Queue to Promises T204055
*** Upgrade Puppeteer to v1.9.0 T207416
** SEO:
*** Add Schema.org Article JSON-LD to main namespace pages T198946
*** Server side split test T206868
** Product and management in Portland.
==== Readers Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
==== Multimedia ====
* Updates
** Hiring continues
** SDoC - some progress on beta cluster deployment
** SDoC - discussion on data modelling continues
** SDoC - usability study on multi-lingual captions
** SDoC - 'depicts' upload wizard
==== Parsing ====
* Blocked by: No one
* Blocking: Hopefully no one :-)
* Updates:
**"Untidy" parser output is being deprecated
**Most system messages are being tidied in this week's train (and next week)
**If you see unexpected UI changes (probably extra whitespace) let us know
**HTML DOM structure might change as well (if you are doing screen scraping)
***https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:deprecate-wgtidy
==== UI Standardization ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Dealing with some odd PayPal behavior regarding legacy subscriptions
** Working out county-specific issues with card processor in Latin America
campaign
** Deployed new batch-mode payment spreadsheet importer
** Preparing 3 proposals for contractor work on CentralNotice - live banner
previews, campaign fallback and sub-national targeting, and calendar
display.
=== MediaWiki Core Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Performance ===
* Blocked by:
**
* Blocking:
**
* Updates:
**
=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** Train is blocked on group0
*** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817 WDQS] problems
*** revision-create event date format has changed (we think) -- new format
example "2018-10-24T00:28:24.162300+00:00" -- if you know anything chime in
on task please
*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus/+/468482 is
likely the culprit
* Blocking:
**Growth needs support on how to unblock and merge
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/468171
* Updates:
**
=== Research ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** Writing a paper that researches Wikipedia section alignments across
languages:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Expanding_Wikipedia_articles_acros…
** Working on taking the Recommendation API to production:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/services/recommendation-api/+/…
** Stopping data collection for citation usage schemas on 10/25:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/465418/
=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** Redis task tracker is live now, ores responses is now cut to half
** More work on upgrading to celery 4 is ongoing
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by: breakage in the updater (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817) being handled
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
** WDQS Updater incident:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20181024-WDQS -
working on it
** Fixed issue with Lexeme data not being properly updated in WDQS:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207673
** Fixed search satisfaction browser tests:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206232
** Working on “wrong keyboard layout” detection:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
** Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
** Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
** Working on query parsing refactoring:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
=== Security ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking: T207798 Security review for GrowthExperiments extension opened
10/23
* Updates:
**
=== Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
== Wikidata ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
== German Technical Wishlist ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
== Multi-Content Revisions ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
**