Hi all,
On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all
supported branches of MediaWiki.
The new releases will be:
- 1.35.14
- 1.39.6
- 1.40.2
1.41.0 is expected to follow shortly after.
This will resolve one minor security issue in MediaWiki core, along with
bug fixes included for maintenance reasons. This includes various patches
for PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 support.
This release may or may not be made with a CVE number formally attached,
due to the recent delays in receiving them from MITRE.
We will make the fixes available in the respective release branches and
master in git. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point
releases as well.
A summary of some of the security fixes that have gone into non-bundled
MediaWiki extensions will also follow later.
As a reminder, when 1.35 was released, it was originally due to become end
of life (EOL) at the end of September 2023. Due to 1.39 being released late
(November 2022), and to honor the commitment to the 1 year overlap of
MediaWiki LTS releases, this formal EOL process was delayed till at least
the end of November 2023, with the suggestion it would be December 2023.
It is therefore expected that this 1.35.14 will become the final release
for the 1.35 branch, and 1.35 will formally become end of life afterwards.
A separate announcement will be sent for that.
It is strongly recommended to upgrade to either 1.39 (the next LTS after
1.35), which will be supported until November 2025, 1.40, which will be
supported until June 2024, or 1.41, which will be supported until December
2024.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
Hey! I am trying to understand wikimedia codebase but I am not able to
grasp things properly. Can someone tell which will be the best project to
work on if my techstack include js react and python....but I am not too
good at any one of these languages. So as a newbie in which project should
I contribute now?
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Hello all,
I would like to draw your attention to task [T333770](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333770) I created several months ago, for evaluating Cloudflare Turnstile as an alternative to Wikimedia's Fancy Captcha which is broken in [multiple](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289607) [ways](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6845).
This is just my suggestion from a volunteer's perspective. I can see growing adoption of Turnstile in the wild (like Bing AI) in the past months, and it looks like a good balance between accessibility and bot-stopping ability. Consequently, it may better fit us than hCaptcha.
I have described the pros and cons in the task. Hope somebody responsible for this area could take a look at this alternative. It will be much appreciated!
Best,
Diskdance
Hi! I'm thinking on writing a gadget to add inline comments to articles,
similar to how Google Docs comments work.
However, I'm sure I recently read somewhere about someone developing an
extension or something with the same goal, but now I can't find it
anywhere. Anyone knows?
Thanks!
Hello everyone,
Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the
Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the
Community Wishlist Survey: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey>. The inaugural
community edition will take place from *March 15th to 17th, 2024*. You can
learn more and sign up here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>.
Since May 2022, the Community Tech team has organized five Wishathons <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon> internal to
Foundation staff to bring greater technical capacity to address open wishes
and promote collaboration on wishes within the product & technology teams.
Since the inception of the Wishathon, Foundation staff have helped
Community Tech complete work on 10 wishes that were otherwise stalling or
incomplete. This next edition of the Wishathon extends to Wikimedia
contributors as a next step in these efforts.
If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer,
or product lead, you are welcome to join the event! If you wish to take
part in the Wishathon, you can register for the event on this wiki page: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>. Organizers will
send a message to your talk page with more details about the event in
January 2024 and post updates on this page.
Read the full announcement: <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/11/introducing-wishathon-for-wikimedias-…>
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Wishathon organizing committee
(Harumi, TheresNoTime, Karolin, Mary, Sheila, Srishti)
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Aryann Dwivedi, currently enrolled as an engineering student at NIT Nagpur. This marks my initial venture into the realm of open source contribution. Proficient in languages such as javascript, typescript, node,php, I have successfully executed several projects. Now, I am eager to channel my skills and contribute to your community.
In pursuit of this goal, I want to seek guidance and mentorship from an experienced individual who possesses expertise in the mentioned domains. I am enthusiastic about taking on a small issue or feature to work on under your mentorship.
Thank you for considering my request.