I'm also concerned, and I have some reasons. Graphs have been broken for more than a month now, and it doesn't seem that they are going to recover, losing opportunities to show things in a more interesting way. Some efforts we have made to show Ourworldindata maps and graphs are also stopped at "security review". Some years ago, we launched (and invested lot of money on) a system that would read the articles in some languages but it never succeeded because of the same reason.

And I would accept that having third-party resources is not the best option if we had product team working on those features. But this isn't happening and doesn't seem it will happen in the future. Some years ago we were obsolete. Now we are paleolithic, a relic for archaeologists of the Internet. Meanwhile, other platforms are advancing by the day on new features. Every day we are further from our 2030 strategic goal.

I have concerns about this policy. We are a collaborative movement and will succeed more by working collaboratively with other like minded organizations than by building a walled garden where only software run from WMF staff controlled production servers can reach our readers.

On WikiVoyage for example we have relief maps as an optional overlay that is viewable following a notice that external data sources will be accessed. https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/K2_base_camp_trek It sounds like this policy would end this. Which in my opinion would be a loss.

James

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 2:03 AM Samuel Guebo <sguebo@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi everyone,

The Foundation’s Security team is gathering feedback on a draft policy about third-party resources from June 05 to July 17, 2023.

Because this policy may impact gadgets and user scripts, inputs and suggestions on its content are warmly welcome.

You can read more about the policy and join the discussion on meta-wiki[1].

Hope to see you there!

On the behalf of the Foundation’s Security team

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Third-party_resources_policy

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Samuel Guebo
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Wikimedia Foundation

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Senior Privacy Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation

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