On 01 November 2021 at 22:38 "Sam
(TheresNoTime)" <sam(a)theresnotime.co.uk> wrote:
No worries Lucy, I imagined that would be the case :)
As I said, I really don't want to be causing problems and I hope my email
reflects that..
Thank you for your attention to this, and please do reach out off-list
Kind regards,
Sam
User:TheresNoTime
English Wikipedia: CU/OS
On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 22:30, Lucy Crompton-Reid <
lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk mailto:lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk >
wrote:
Just as a quick PS, I feel I should mention that the decisions you refer to took place
several years before I joined the organisation (as per the phabricator thread) and so I
will probably need to try to piece together why certain things happened with imperfect
knowledge...but I will certainly do my best!
On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 21:39, Sam (TheresNoTime) < sam(a)theresnotime.co.uk
mailto:sam@theresnotime.co.uk > wrote:
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Hi all,
Me again, bear with me...
I emailed the list a while back about the IT Development pages, the issues
with the Wiki etc. - I've seen today a number of edits (e.g.
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Special:Diff/82820) which attempt to potentially explain the
changes, but fall a bit short, as I initially suggested here (
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Special:Diff/82828).
I've attempted to fix some of the bigger issues with the wiki (
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room#Recent_changes_to_MediaWiki_names…),
but a lot boils down to the fact you're using a very old, insecure version of
MediaWiki and PHP (
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Engine_room#Installed_versions_of_MediaWiki_a…).
In regards to my comments about approaching the WMF to host the Wiki, I had
this task pointed out to me (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58938) which I found odd,
especially some of the comments by your volunteers .
I do not understand why Wikimedia UK migrated from a free, secure, managed
MediaWiki installation to a VPS which I assume is either donated or is costing the charity
money, and which isn't kept up to date?
This doesn't strike me as an effective use of charity funds and volunteer
time, and has unfortunately resulted in a MediaWiki install which is outdated and insecure
(see CVE-2019-12468
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12468 as just one example of
an exploit against the currently installed version).
As the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, running this MediaWiki
installation is likely to "negatively impact the work or image of the
Foundation" if exploited. Could someone please help me in understanding the decisions
which led to moving away from the WMF infrastructure? Was there a conflict of mission?
I appreciate I am "causing waves" here, and I honestly don't
want to be - Wikimedia UK has been a charity I've supported for quite some time, you
do great work and I thank you for your commitment to open access to knowledge!
How can we work together to resolve this? I'm fairly available this week
and would be more than happy to chat with someone about how we can fix this.
Kind regards,
Sam
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