Wikimania-l October 2013

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by C C 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Dear Wikimania, Are we allowed to bring guests along with us to the Conference? Thanks,Cornelieus Chen

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Wikimania Budget (related to chapters and WMF)
by Itzik Edri 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Hi, I know it may be too early to ask that, but I promise to send another notification related this issue in the coming months :) We started last year to make the Wikimania costs more transparent. Wikimania is our biggest and the most expensive project. To ask our self "how much Wikimania costs" we can't only look on the project budget, as the total cost involve also scholarships (from WMF and chapters) and delegations of the chapters and the WMF. We have tracking pages on Meta about Wikimania 2011<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Budget>and Wikimania 2012 <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Budget> (sadly the organizer team of 2012 didn't updated their costs till now...), and I opened a new page for Wikimania 2013<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Budget> . So again, I know to some of you this is too early to put the costs (although the size of the chapters and WMF delegation is known and could be update also now) - but if you can, do it now. If now, remember to do it what you have the numbers. The data requested is your chapter\wmf delegation<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Budget#Delegations> and the number of scholarships<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2013>your chapters gave. Thanks, Itzik

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New Wikimania Committee Formed
by Ellie Young 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

A Wikimania committee has been formed to ensure that the legacy of knowledge is effectively and efficiently passed on to the organising teams and to ensure a smooth and successful Wikimania. For more details on the committee and its charter see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee/Charter This committee can also be reached at wikimania-com(a)lists.wikimedia.org Committee members: • James Forrester (Chair) • Ellie Young (Secretary) • Carlos Barcenilla • Jeromy-Yu Chan (representing WM 2013) • Florence Devouard • Orsolya Virág Gyenes (representing WM 2012) • James Hare • Deror Avi (representing WM 2011) • Manuel Schneider • Muhammad Yahia

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 91, Issue 3
by foedshaq＠gmail.com 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Do i realy have to change my password!why? -original message- Subject: Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 91, Issue 3 From: wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: 03/10/2013 21:12 Send Wikimania-l mailing list submissions to wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimania-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimania-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue (Michael Peel) 2. Re: Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue (Nathan) 3. Re: Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue (Casey Brown) 4. Re: Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue (Chris Steipp) 5. Re: Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue (Michael Peel) 6. Re: Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue (Risker) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 18:17:50 +0100 From: Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> To: "Wikimania general list \(open subscription\)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue Message-ID: <4499360F-43E5-4034-8BC2-ECF6F700BF19(a)mikepeel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 They look like they're linked into CentralAuth/global accounts/SUL to me… Thanks, Mike On 3 Oct 2013, at 18:06, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please note that it is especially important to change your passwords on the Wikimania wikis where you have accounts. These are non-SUL wikis and changing your SUL password will not effect a change on the Wikimania 2013 and 2014 wikis. Even if you never intend to edit those wikis again, your password and account could still hypothetically be compromised. > > I agree with others that the risk is very, very small; nonetheless, it is not non-existent. > > Risker/Anne > > On 3 October 2013 05:36, Orsolya Gyenes <gyenes.orsolya(a)wiki.media.hu> wrote: > Yeah, I already gotten my mail... great... :( > > ~Orsolya > > > 2013/10/3 Katie Chan <katie.chan(a)wikimedia.org.uk> > FYI, especially since wikimania2013 & wikimania2014 are two of the affected wikis. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: 3 October 2013 06:56 > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > See also: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/October_2013_private_data_security_issue > > On October 1, 2013, we learned about an implementation error that made > private user information (specifically, user email addresses, password > hashes, session tokens, and last login timestamp) for approximately > 37,000 Wikimedia project users accessible to volunteers with access to > the Wikimedia "LabsDB" infrastructure. > > LabsDB, launched in May 2013, is designed to give volunteers the > ability to write tools and generate reports that make use of data from > our databases in real-time. This supports bottom-up innovation by the > Wikimedia community. As part of this process, private data is > automatically redacted before volunteers are given access to the data. > Unfortunately, for some of Wikimedia’s wikis[1], the database triggers > used to redact private data failed to take effect due to a schema > incompatibility, and LabsDB users had access to private user data for > some user accounts in these specific wiki databases. As of October 1, > 228 users have access to LabsDB, and the window of availability of > this data was May 29, 2013 to October 1, 2013. > > This issue was discovered and reported by a trusted volunteer, and > access to the data in question was revoked within 15 minutes of the > report. We have no evidence to suggest that the private data in > question was exported in bulk or used for malicious purposes, but we > cannot definitively exclude the possibility. As a precautionary > measure, we have invalidated all affected user sessions, and are > requiring affected users to change their password on their next login. > > We have also sent an email notification to affected users with a > confirmed email address. > > We regret this mistake. LabsDB is still a new part of our > infrastructure, and we will fully audit the redaction process, so as > to minimize any risk of a future mistake of this nature. > > Sincerely, > Erik Moeller > Vice President of Engineering & Product Development > > Contact information > > Should you have any questions, please contact us via email to: > > accountsecurity(a)wikimedia.org > > You can also reach the Wikimedia Foundation at: > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > 149 New Montgomery Street > Floor 6 > San Francisco, CA 94105 > United States > Phone: +1-415-839-6885 > Fax: +1-415-882-0495 > > [1] List of affected databases: aswikisource bewikisource dewikivoyage > elwikivoyage enwikivoyage eswikivoyage frwikivoyage guwikisource > hewikivoyage itwikivoyage kowikiversity lezwiki loginwiki minwiki > nlwikivoyage plwikivoyage ptwikivoyage rowikivoyage ruwikivoyage > sawikiquote slwikiversity svwikivoyage testwikidatawiki tyvwiki > ukwikivoyage vecwiktionary votewiki wikidatawiki wikimania2013wiki > wikimania2014wiki > > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Katie Chan > Volunteer Support Organiser > Wikimedia UK > +44 (0) 20 7065 0990 > +44 (0) 7885 980 534 > > Wikimedia UK is a Charitable Company registered in England and Wales. > Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. > Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. > Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > > Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 13:18:12 -0400 From: Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue Message-ID: <CALKX9dQcGQ1cKKGqBcpBhEMgHd0och-kYCGMDe13+sHOkLo=TQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please note that it is especially important to change your passwords on the > Wikimania wikis where you have accounts. These are non-SUL wikis and > changing your SUL password will not effect a change on the Wikimania 2013 > and 2014 wikis. Even if you never intend to edit those wikis again, your > password and account could still hypothetically be compromised. > > I agree with others that the risk is very, very small; nonetheless, it is > not non-existent. > > Risker/Anne It sounds like they've already scrambled the passwords as part of requiring the password reset procedure. Even if they haven't, Erik's description of precautionary measures should mean that access to your Wikimania (etc) accounts is disabled prior to a password reset using your e-mail, so there's no real risk that someone will get into your account (unless they can also get into your e-mail). But normally notices of compromised passwords include standard language suggesting that users change their passwords for any other login where they've used similar information, in case the combination of name and password is sold or someone attempts to use their knowledge of you to access your information on other sites. Perhaps that is part of the e-mail notification the WMF sent; if not, it's good practice. ~Nathan ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 14:43:12 -0400 From: Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org> To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue Message-ID: <CA+txiSvNqkRE6m8fzxZOjsqS2cCeJUZQctpGwaUi-f4LxyeD+w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please note that it is especially important to change your passwords on the > Wikimania wikis where you have accounts. These are non-SUL wikis and > changing your SUL password will not effect a change on the Wikimania 2013 > and 2014 wikis. Even if you never intend to edit those wikis again, your > password and account could still hypothetically be compromised. Actually, changing your SUL password should change your password on all your attached Wikimedia wikis accounts. This includes all public wikis, but does not include private or fishbowl ones. So, for example, if you also used the same password on wikimaniateamwiki or foundationwiki, you will need to change it separately there. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > But normally notices of compromised passwords include standard > language suggesting that users change their passwords for any other > login where they've used similar information, in case the combination > of name and password is sold or someone attempts to use their > knowledge of you to access your information on other sites. Perhaps > that is part of the e-mail notification the WMF sent; if not, it's > good practice. This too. If you used the same password combination elsewhere (you shouldn't, but people often do), then you should change those too. -- Casey Brown (Cbrown1023) caseybrown.org ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 13:43:46 -0700 From: Chris Steipp <csteipp(a)wikimedia.org> To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue Message-ID: <CAKcmtDzv5RComj0aQhE1sc7x_peczy99sQsYrA7MNP_qSdKEfA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please note that it is especially important to change your passwords on > the Wikimania wikis where you have accounts. These are non-SUL wikis and > changing your SUL password will not effect a change on the Wikimania 2013 > and 2014 wikis. Even if you never intend to edit those wikis again, your > password and account could still hypothetically be compromised. > wikimania2013.wikimedia.org and wikimania2014.wikimedia.org are both part of SUL, so most users should use their CentralAuth account to login. They are slightly odd in that we don't give you a cookie for those sites when you initially login on another wiki, but with SUL2, you *should* get logged in when you visit the site. However, since SUL2 is relatively new, and you wouldn't get automatically logged in when visiting the site with the original SUL, I'm guessing many users visited the wikimania sites for the first time, logged in with their centralauth username and password, and continued on their way, which is one of the conditions where the local wiki stores the password hash used to initially create the account. So there is probably a higher number of users here who were notified, than on some of the other wikis. > > I agree with others that the risk is very, very small; nonetheless, it is > not non-existent. > Totally agree. > > Risker/Anne >

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Ideas for attributing offline activities
by BalaSundaraRaman 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

We all know how neat, subtle and effective is the attribution for every edit made on wiki in page history. Is it possible to extend this (at least partly) to the offline activities of Wikipedians (like in organising Wikimania, for example)? Are there any best practices in this regard? Thanks, Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue
by Katie Chan 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

FYI, especially since wikimania2013 & wikimania2014 are two of the affected wikis. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 3 October 2013 06:56 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> See also: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/October_2013_private_data_security_issue On October 1, 2013, we learned about an implementation error that made private user information (specifically, user email addresses, password hashes, session tokens, and last login timestamp) for approximately 37,000 Wikimedia project users accessible to volunteers with access to the Wikimedia "LabsDB" infrastructure. LabsDB, launched in May 2013, is designed to give volunteers the ability to write tools and generate reports that make use of data from our databases in real-time. This supports bottom-up innovation by the Wikimedia community. As part of this process, private data is automatically redacted before volunteers are given access to the data. Unfortunately, for some of Wikimedia’s wikis[1], the database triggers used to redact private data failed to take effect due to a schema incompatibility, and LabsDB users had access to private user data for some user accounts in these specific wiki databases. As of October 1, 228 users have access to LabsDB, and the window of availability of this data was May 29, 2013 to October 1, 2013. This issue was discovered and reported by a trusted volunteer, and access to the data in question was revoked within 15 minutes of the report. We have no evidence to suggest that the private data in question was exported in bulk or used for malicious purposes, but we cannot definitively exclude the possibility. As a precautionary measure, we have invalidated all affected user sessions, and are requiring affected users to change their password on their next login. We have also sent an email notification to affected users with a confirmed email address. We regret this mistake. LabsDB is still a new part of our infrastructure, and we will fully audit the redaction process, so as to minimize any risk of a future mistake of this nature. Sincerely, Erik Moeller Vice President of Engineering & Product Development Contact information Should you have any questions, please contact us via email to: accountsecurity(a)wikimedia.org You can also reach the Wikimedia Foundation at: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 149 New Montgomery Street Floor 6 San Francisco, CA 94105 United States Phone: +1-415-839-6885 Fax: +1-415-882-0495 [1] List of affected databases: aswikisource bewikisource dewikivoyage elwikivoyage enwikivoyage eswikivoyage frwikivoyage guwikisource hewikivoyage itwikivoyage kowikiversity lezwiki loginwiki minwiki nlwikivoyage plwikivoyage ptwikivoyage rowikivoyage ruwikivoyage sawikiquote slwikiversity svwikivoyage testwikidatawiki tyvwiki ukwikivoyage vecwiktionary votewiki wikidatawiki wikimania2013wiki wikimania2014wiki -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Katie Chan Volunteer Support Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0990 +44 (0) 7885 980 534 Wikimedia UK is a Charitable Company registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.

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