Wikitech-l February 2014

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Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage
by Brena Monteiro 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki Homepage. Your opinion, contribution and help are very welcome. Thank you. Best regards, [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview Brena Monteiro +55 27 98109 0123 @monteirobrena <http://twitter.com/monteirobrena> Reflexões Brenianas <http://monteirobrena.wordpress.com>

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3d Online Geometry Viewer
by Inderpreet Singh 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hi, I am Inderpreet Singh, this is my first mail and I hope I am on correct mailing list. I am currently working on an online geometry viewer that was developed under BRL-CAD (brlcad.org) as one of it's GSOC projects last summer. It's in it's very basic stage. It currently allows you to upload a CAD model (.g file) and view it 3D in the browser. I was planning to add a feature that would allow users to embed their models on websites and share it, (think of it as http://codepen.io/ for CAD). Also, we were planning to add a mged command interface so that we can edit the CAD model online using mged commands. We were having discussions over these when someone among us pointed out that there is a need of similar extension for mediawiki. I would really love to know more about the requirements and propose BRL-CAD (one of the oldest open source repositories in world) on a server with web-interface as a full open source candidate for the required tool. -- Inderpreet Singh Ekoankar Sahai ishwerdas.com facebook.com/okayinder https://kippt.com/okayinder

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★ Wikimedia developers, Sergey Samoylov оставил для вас сообщение
by Sergey Samoylov 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Вы можете прочитать сообщение и ответить на него через наш чат. Откройте своё сообщение http://eu1.badoo.com/0311318950/in/fIgvQLfMBoI/?lang_id=2&g=57-0-4&m=29&mid… Они ждут встречи с вами: Если ссылка не работает, скопируйте и вставьте её в адресную строку браузера. До скорого! Команда Badoo Вы получили это письмо от Badoo Trading Limited (почтовый адрес ниже). Если вы не хотите получать уведомления от Badoo, нажмите здесь: https://eu1.badoo.com/impersonation.phtml?lang_id=2&email=wikitech-l%40wiki…. Badoo Trading Limited зарегистрирована в Англии и Уэльсе под номером CRN 7540255 по юридическому адресу: Media Village, 131 - 151 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 5BB.

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★ Wikitech L, Sergey Samoylov оставил для вас сообщение
by Sergey Samoylov 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Вы можете прочитать сообщение и ответить на него через наш чат. Откройте своё сообщение http://eu1.badoo.com/0311318950/in/G1x.KSiSP6U/?lang_id=2&g=57-0-4&m=29&mid… Они ждут встречи с вами: Если ссылка не работает, скопируйте и вставьте её в адресную строку браузера. До скорого! Команда Badoo Вы получили это письмо от Badoo Trading Limited (почтовый адрес ниже). Если вы не хотите получать уведомления от Badoo, нажмите здесь: https://eu1.badoo.com/impersonation.phtml?lang_id=2&email=wikitech-l%40wiki…. Badoo Trading Limited зарегистрирована в Англии и Уэльсе под номером CRN 7540255 по юридическому адресу: Media Village, 131 - 151 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 5BB.

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Primerpedia updated
by Waldir Pimenta 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hi all! Some of you might remember my previous anouncement<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/321799>of the Primerpedia proof of concept for the Concise Wikipedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Concise_Wikipedia> proposal on meta. After a long while, I finally implemented a basic search functionality and some other fixes, so it should now be a minimally usable tool. Give it a try! http://waldir.github.io/primerpedia/ --Waldir ps - please fill issues or pull requests to the github repo (linked in the footer of the site)

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Password Hash
by Chris Steipp 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hi all, I wanted to bikeshed just a little bit, to make sure there is some consensus. tl;dr We're upgrading the password hash used to store passwords to make offline cracking more difficult. In doing that, we need to set one of the options as default. Speak up if you have strong feelings about one over the other. Along with refactoring how passwords are stored and checked, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/77645 implements two strong hashing algorithms PBKDF2 [1] and bcrypt [2]. I added a followup commit to add in the algorithm that Tim came up with in 2010 using Whirlpool as a hash function [3]. For any of these, there is a maintenance script to wrap current passwords with one of the strong ones, so we can upgrade the whole database without interaction from the users. It's also simple to upgrade the work factor or change to a new algorithm, if we decide that is needed in the future. But for the actual default... Bcrypt is probably the most common option for password storage in webapps that I see. PHP 5.5 uses it as the default for the new password_hash() function. The only issue is that PHP before 5.3.7 had a flaw in their implementation which resulted in weak hashes. If we set bcrypt as default, we would want to raise the minimum php version to 5.3.7 (it's currently 5.3.2) for MediaWIki 1.23. PBKDF2 is an RSA standard and is included in PHP 5.5. Tyler did an implementation in the patch to make it backwards compatible. The only downside to it is the connection to RSA, who may have knowingly standardized weak algorithms, although the security properties of PBKDF2 are fairly well studied and haven't been called into question. The Whirlpool algorithm by Tim would force password cracking software to do a custom implementation for our hashes. It has very similar work effort to bcrypt, and should keep our passwords as safe as using bcrypt. The theory behind it seems good, but obviously, we might discover a gaping hole in it at some point. Is there any strong preference among these options? My personal vote is for bcrypt, if bumping the php version doesn't seem like a big deal to everyone. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt [3] - http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg08830.html

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Reporting a bug with the creation of pdf Files with equations
by Daniel 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

I just wanted to report a bug, and info-en(a)wikipedia.org referred me here. Sadly, upon trying to create a pdf (using the otherwise genius Print/export feature) of a page that involves lines above letters (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mesons) the lines above letters (here essential to indicate the difference between Particle and Antiparticle) just disappear. In the linked Article that can be seen in the caption under the first Image where the pdf then contains the text "The strange antiquark (s)" despite there being a line above the "s" in the online Article. greetings, Daniel

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How to retrieve current wiki time
by Petr Bena 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

There is StartTimestamp property used in edit api, which should contain the time, when you started editing the page. This timestamp needs to be in same timezone as wiki is. How do you get current wiki time, so that you can either calculate the timezone or use the time? For example: 1) Get current wiki time and store it 2) Edit the page 3) Use previously retrieved ts as StartTimestamp How can I query the mediawiki in order to get the current time from server's point of view

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Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time
by Jeremy Baron 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

On Feb 26, 2014 10:09 AM, "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Note the returned timestamp should always be in UTC, formatted in ISO 8601 > format (e.g. "2014-02-26T15:01:37Z"). Speaking of timestamp format, examples in api.php seem wrong for basetimestamp. The examples use entirely numeric timestamp like you get when paging through [[special:log]] (in browser not API) The format returned by prop=revisions&rvprop=timestamp does match the format you described. -Jeremy

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GSoC '14 Query
by Narendra Nath Joshi 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hi all, This is a query regarding GSoC '14. I'm proficient in Hindi and English. I also am a hobbyist web developer and am quite familiar with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I wanted to know about the projects I can do as a part of translation for GSoC 2014. Where do I start? Thanks in advance. Regards, Narendra Nath Joshi Bangalore, IN +91 8050 434 665

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