MediaWiki-l June 2021

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Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.15 / 1.35.3 / 1.36.1
by Sam Reed 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.31.15 - 1.35.3 - 1.36.1 This will resolve 1 minor issue in MediaWiki core and also includes some fixes previously committed to git, including minor security and hardening patches along with bug fixes included for maintenance reasons. We will make the fixes available in these respective release branches, and also master. 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. As a reminder, 1.31 (the old LTS) was due to become end of life (EOL) in June 2021. 1.35 (the new LTS) is supported until September 2023. However, to try and meet our LTS-LTS overlap commitments (1.35 was late due to COVID), 1.31 will get best-efforts extra support until the end of September 2021. Practically, this will mean 1.31 is only tested on PHP 7.2, removing the burden of testing on PHP 7.0 and 7.1 which both became EOL in 2019. This will also mean 1.31 is eligible for one final security release in late September 2021 before formally becoming EOL. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

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Use of HTML "required" parameter in OOUI
by Yaron Koren 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hi, I recently discovered that the OOUI library, when an input is declared as "required" (i.e., mandatory), accomplishes this by adding the "required" parameter to the input, which is an HTML parameter that's part of HTML5. When "required" is specified, the browser checks the input when the form gets submitted, and, if it's blank, displays an error message and prevents form submission. It's certainly convenient to be able to use HTML's "required", but I see some weaknesses with this approach, compared to a built-in MediaWiki solution: - There is less i18n support. Some browsers have quite impressive language support - Google Chrome seems to support around 150 languages - but none have the comprehensiveness of MediaWiki. - The error message is displayed in the language of the user's browser settings, rather than in the language they have for the wiki. (Why the two would be different, I don't know, but it's possible.) - The display of the error message does not match the OOUI look-and-feel. Any thoughts about all of these? Was the use of "required" a conscious decision, or just a matter of convenience? -Yaron -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com

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Global parser not initialized on special pages?
by Sebastian Trueg 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hi everyone, my skin uses the global parser in order to render some parts of the navigation bar via templates (Parser::recursivePreprocess). This works fine on all normal pages (and even some special ones like Special:Version), but not on special pages like Special:AllPages. Some debugging revealed that on Special:AllPages the global parser object (\MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getParser()) is not properly initialized. Member variables like mOptions and mTitle are null which results in tons of NPEs. Any idea why that is? Is that a bug or am I mis-using the parser? Regards, Sebastian

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Update HitCounters GitHub repo
by Jeffrey Walton 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hi Everyone, We are having a little trouble with HitCounters and deprecated warnings. We use extensions and skins from the GitHub mirror to easily pull in changes on the REL1_36 branch. Tracking a branch like REL1_36 is a lot easier than manually downloading a zip file with a non-relevant name, like v4.3.5.zip (especially with 30+ extensions and skins). HitCounter is stale. The author, @WikiForMen, said he updated the extension to fix the warnings (see the Talk page). It appears the changes have not trickled into the GitHub repo. Confer, https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-HitCounters/tree/REL1_36 . Would it be possible to update the HitCounters repo, please? Thanks in advance.

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2021 WMF Board of Trustees elections - Call for Candidates
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hello all, The 2021 Board of Trustees election[1] is coming soon. Candidates from the community are needed to fill the available seats. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community trustees and appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three-year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community trustees. Wikimedia contributors will vote to fill four seats on the Board in 2021. This is an opportunity to improve the Board's representation, diversity, and expertise as a team. For potential candidates: - *Traits:* Wikimedia is a global movement and seeks candidates from the broader community. Candidates should think about what experiences and perspectives they will bring to the Board. Ideal candidates align with the Wikimedia mission and are thoughtful, respectful, and community-oriented. The Board would like to find perspectives and voices that are under-represented and essential for our movement. They should bring what Wikimedia needs from a new Trustee. - *Commitment: *Trustees serve a three-year term and can serve up to three consecutive terms. The time commitment is about 150 hours per year, excluding travel. This time is not evenly spread throughout the year. The time is concentrated around meetings. The expectation is that Trustees serve on at least one of the Board’s committees. - *Requirements*[2]: English is the language of business for the Board. Candidates need a basic understanding of English, but support and training are part of onboarding. Candidate applications will be translated into several languages to reach a broad audience of voters. - *Apply*[3]: Candidates from all projects and communities who meet the needs of Wikimedia Trustee are welcome. If you know someone who could be a good trustee, encourage them to run for election. Candidates can find information and submit their nomination on the Apply to be a Candidate page. - *Resources*[4]: A toolkit has been developed for community members who are considering submitting their candidacy for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, and who want to better understand what to expect and how to prepare for the role. Thank you for your support, The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Apply_t… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Candidate_Re… -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (he/him) Board Governance Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation

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Problem with expanding content on wiki
by Zoran Dori 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Hello everyone, I really need your help, because I can't figure out what's wrong. I'm working on one wiki, and they have problems with expanding content. Example page: https://helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/index.php/Helminth_provider_reviews#… Content doesn't expand when the user clicks on "More reviews...", and the second link (which is on the right side) is not displayed as a link, but in plain text. Is something wrong with the template which they use? [0] Best regards, Zoran ---- [0] https://helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/index.php/Template:Expando

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New episodes of Between the Brackets: Robert Heine, Nischay Nahata
by Yaron Koren 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

Hi, There is a new episode of the MediaWiki podcast "Between the Brackets", and I forgot to send out a separate announcement for Robert Heine from two weeks ago, so I'm happy to announce both of their episodes now. First, the most recent episode is an interview with Nischay Nahata, who is the co-founder of the (heavily MediaWik-based) India-based home interior company Truww, as well as a MediaWiki consultant on the side: https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-88-nischay-nahata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdvwjpfoiyw And two weeks ago, there was an episode with Robert Heine, who runs the German non-profit wiki Energypedia, as well as the company Energypedia Consult, which provides MediaWiki solutions for other non-profits: https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-87-robert-heine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFE2O_MxOI I hope you enjoy both of them. -Yaron -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com

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New Code of Conduct committee candidates
by Amir Sarabadani 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hello, The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee candidates are (In alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Kunal Mehta - Martin Urbanec - MusikAnimal - Tony Thomas And auxiliary members will be (Also in alphabetical order): - Ariel Glenn - Effie Mouzeli - Huji - Jayprakash12345 - Nuria Ruiz You can read more about the members in the mediawiki.org page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates> . The changes compared to last term are: - Kunal Mehta is joining the main CoC committee - Ariel Glenn is coming back to auxiliary committee - Effie Mouzeli is joining auxiliary committee for the first time - Tonina Zhelyazkova is leaving the committee - Matanya and Tpt are leaving the auxiliary committee - I won't run for the chair this year. This is not the final structure. According to the CoC <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_m…>, the current committee publishes the new members and calls for public feedback for *six weeks* and after that, the current committee might apply changes to the structure based on public feedback. Please let the committee know if you have any concern regarding the members and its structure until *26 May 2021* and after that, the new committee will be in effect and will serve for a year. Amir, On behalf of the Code of Conduct committee Best

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Reconsidering of eligibility criteria for technical contributions in elections
by Jay prakash 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hello all, As the 2021 WMF Board elections have been announced, I have proposed to reconsider the eligibility criteria for “developers” and technical contributors, as the previous criteria do not make sense any longer and exclude several groups of contributors. A discussion has been started at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281977 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021#Re… . Please share your thoughts and feedback. Regards Jay Prakash (he/him) Volunteer Developer, Wikimedia

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Announcing MediaWiki 1.36.0
by Sam Reed 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.36! Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Please note that MediaWiki 1.36 now requires the PHP internationalization extension, commonly referred to as Intl, ext-intl, or php-intl. As a reminder, 1.31 (the old LTS) is due to become end of life in June 2021. 1.35 (the new LTS) is supported until September 2023. However, to try and meet our LTS-LTS overlap commitments (1.35 was late due to COVID), 1.31 will get best-efforts extra support until the end of September 2021. Practically, this will mean 1.31 is only tested on PHP 7.2, removing the burden of testing on PHP 7.0 and 7.1 which both became EOL in 2019. It is also noted that the patch from MediaWiki 1.36.0-rc.0 to MediaWiki 1.36.0 (mediawiki-1.36.0.patch.gz/mediawiki-1.36.0.patch.zip) is larger than expected due to an issue with the initial importing of skins and extensions as submodules into the REL1_36 branch. A bug has been filed for this issue, but doesn't cause any practical issues otherwise. MediaWiki 1.36 will be supported until May 2022. MediaWiki 1.37 is due to be released in November 2021. === Changes since MediaWiki 1.36.0-rc.0 === * (T248481) rdbms: Use server time in DatabaseMysqlBase::getLagFromPtHeartbeat(). * (T281549) WebInstaller: Don't show the announce-l subscribe checkbox for now. * (T264214) Follow-ups for UserGroupManager. * (T282280) resourceloader: Fix path-only URLs in wiki modules when script path is docroot. * (T281972) UserIdentityValue: Introduce convenience static factory methods. * (T230428) Make page_is_redirect and page_is_new unsigned. * (T280292) Legacy feature should not load thumbnail style rules (only layout). * (T283247) Freenode -> Libera per wikimedia moving from freenode to libera. * (T280270) composer: Lock Parsoid version to specific 0.13.0 release. * (T142663) Add extension.json merge strategy "provide_default". * (T283540) HookContainer: Fix normalization of callback for static handler. * (T283464) registration: Fix array order for array_replace_recursive merge strategy. * (T283539) Interwiki: Fix calling "onInterwikiLoadPrefix" hook. * (T282594) Timeless: Re-branch to 40eb3dad1for REL1_36. Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4555/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.36-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.36.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.36.0.zip Patch to previous version (1.36.0-rc.0): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.0.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.0.patch.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.36.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.36.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.0.patch.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Release Notes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.36

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