Wikitech-l August 2015

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extension updates for 1.23.x?
by Jim Tittsler 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

What is the recommended path for updating extensions if you are still using the 1.23.x series? After the update announcement today, I tried downloading the 1.23 version of each of the extensions that we use from the Extension Distributor. Each of the downloads appears to be the same as the old version, suggesting none of the fixes has been backported (or are not required?). Is there a correct way to keep extensions updated if you stay with the "long term support release"? -- Jim Tittsler http://www.OnJapan.net/ GPG: 0x01159DB6 Python Starship http://Starship.Python.net/crew/jwt/ Mailman IRC irc://irc.freenode.net/#mailman

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[recommended reading] the hamburger menu is broken
by Brian Gerstle 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Interesting article about how various sites/apps switched away from the hamburger and to the more conventional tab bar, with tangible results: http://deep.design/the-hamburger-menu/ -- EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle IRC: bgerstle

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[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10
by Chad 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.25.2, 1.24.3, and 1.23.10. These releases fix three security issues in core, in addition to other bug fixes. Several extensions have also had security issues fixed. Download links are given at the end of this email == Security fixes == * Internal review discovered that Special:DeletedContributions did not properly protect the IP of autoblocked users. This fix makes the functionality of Special:DeletedContributions consistent with Special:Contributions and Special:BlockList. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106893> * Internal review discovered that watchlist anti-csrf tokens were not being compared in constant time, which could allow various timing attacks. This could allow an attacker to modify a user's watchlist via csrf. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94116> * John Menerick reported that MediaWiki's thumb.php failed to sanitize various error messages, resulting in xss. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97391> Additionally, the following extensions have been updated to fix security issues: * Extension:SemanticForms - MediaWiki user Grunny discovered multiple reflected xss vectors in SemanticForms. Further internal review discovered and fixed other reflected and stored xss vectors. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103391> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103765> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103761> * Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi - xss and potential DoS vectors. Internal review discovered that the contib directory for GeSHi was re-included in MediaWiki 1.25. Some scripts could be potentially be used for DoS, and DAU Huy Ngoc discovered an xss vector. All contrib scripts have been removed. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108198> * Extension:TimedMediaHandler - User:McZusatz reported that resetting transcodes deleted the transcode without creating a new one, which could be used for vandalism or potentially DoS. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100211> * Extension:Quiz - Internal review discovered that Quiz did not properly escape regex metacharacters in a user controlled regular expression, enabling a DoS vector. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97083> * Extension:Widgets - MediaWiki developer Majr reported a potential HTML injection (xss) vector. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88964> == Bug Fixes in 1.25.2 == * (T102562) Fix InstantCommons parameters to handle the new HTTPS-only policy of Wikimedia Commons. * (T100767) Setting a configuration setting for skin or extension to false in LocalSettings.php was not working. * (T100635) API action=opensearch json output no longer breaks when $wgDebugToolbar is enabled. * (T102522) Using an extension.json or skin.json file which has a "manifest_version" property for 1.26 compatability will no longer trigger warnings. * (T86156) Running updateSearchIndex.php will not throw an error as page_restrictions has been added to the locked table list. * Special:Version would throw notices if using SVN due to an incorrectly named variable. Add an additional check that an index is defined. == Bug Fixes in 1.24.3 == * Update jQuery from v1.11.2 to v1.11.3. * (T102562) Fix InstantCommons parameters to handle the new HTTPS-only policy of Wikimedia Commons. == Bug Fixes in 1.23.10 == * (bug 67644) Make AutoLoaderTest handle namespaces * (T91653) Minimal PSR-3 debug logger to support backports from 1.25+. * (T102562) Fix InstantCommons parameters to handle the new HTTPS-only policy of Wikimedia Commons. Full release notes for 1.25.2: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.25> Full release notes for 1.24.3: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.24> Full release notes for 1.23.10: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23> For information about how to upgrade, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading> ********************************************************************** Mediawiki downloads and patches ********************************************************************** Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.25 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.24 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23 Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.2.tar.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.3.tar.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.10.tar.gz Download (no bundled extensions): http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-core-1.25.2.patch.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-core-1.24.3.patch.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-core-1.23.10.patch.gz Patch to previous version: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.2.patch.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.3.patch.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.10.patch.gz Localization patch to previous version: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-i18n-1.25.2.patch.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-i18n-1.24.3.patch.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-i18n-1.23.10.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.2.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.3.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.10.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-core-1.25.2.patch.gz… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-core-1.24.3.patch.gz… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-core-1.23.10.patch.g… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.2.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.3.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.10.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-i18n-1.25.2.patch.gz… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-i18n-1.24.3.patch.gz… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-i18n-1.23.10.patch.g… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html ********************************************************************** Extension:Semantic Forms ********************************************************************** Information and Download: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms ********************************************************************** Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi ********************************************************************** Information and Download: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi ********************************************************************** Extension:TimedMediaHandler ********************************************************************** Information and Download: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler ********************************************************************** Extension:Quiz ********************************************************************** Information and Download: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Quiz ********************************************************************** Extension:Widgets ********************************************************************** Information and Download: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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Bikeshedding a good name for "the api.php API"
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

When api.php was basically the only API in MediaWiki, calling it "the API" worked well. But now we've got a Parsoid API, Gabriel's work on a REST content API, Gabriel's work on an internal storage API, and more on the way. So just saying "the API" is getting confusing. So let's bikeshed a reasonably short name for it that isn't something awful like "the api.php API". I'm horrible at naming. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct
by Matthew Flaschen 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

On 08/07/2015 11:43 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Thank you for drafting this up, Matt. Who's "we" here? In that case, "we" meant the Wikimedia technical community (in collaboration with other related groups at WMF). Several people have already participated, but we need more. See e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90908 Thanks, Matt Flaschen

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Follow-up on Community Liaisons' roundtable at Wikimania 2015
by Rachel diCerbo 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

Greetings, and apologies for cross posting: The community liaisons at the Wikimedia Foundation held a roundtable discussion at Wikimania [1] in order to gather feedback around participation in product development. The notes are now up.[2] We welcome input from everyone, whether you were unable to join us at Wikimania, or whether you did attend and want to further engage in conversation. Some major themes from this session were that places to give feedback are confusing and unclear, there is little to no understanding of product/engineering prioritization, and there were requests to involve and include communities more. The goal of this roundtable was not to get a wishlist of products and features, but to identify problems and successes around product development so that the WMF and communities can collaborate in better ways. This is an ongoing conversation, and we invite your participation here [3]. Thank you so much, Rachel [1] https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Do_you_feel_heard%3F_A… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)/Wikimania_20… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Engagement_%28Product%29/Wik… -- Rachel diCerbo Director of Community Engagement (Product) Wikimedia Foundation Rdicerb (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rdicerb_%28WMF%29> @a_rachel <https://twitter.com/a_rachel>

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[BREAKING CHANGE] Use of "document.write" no longer supported
by Krinkle 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

TL:DR; Double-check your wiki's site scripts and your personal scripts to ensure "document.write" is no longer used. Hey all, We have strongly discouraged for many years the use of synchronous "document.write()" to inject additional HTML into the output stream. Across MediaWiki core, extensions, and gadgets this hasn't worked since 2012. With two legacy exceptions: the 'site' and 'user' modules. We always found a way to continue support for those. But this is now going to be removed. In upcoming ResourceLoader upgrades and performance improvements, we will cease support for synchronous document-write, in the site and user modules. Use of document-write requires MediaWiki to instruct the browser to pause its rendering before the browser may proceed to parse and display a page to users. Even though most scripts don't use this feature, the mere fact that we support it is causing a measurable impact on page load performance. Starting in 1.26wmf17 (released to wikis this week), ResourceLoader will be fully asynchronous. This change is already live on the Beta Cluster. [1] This means it is no longer possible for the site and user scripts to, with document-write, pause the browser execution and insert additional HTML in the initial output stream. Removing an API does not necessarily mean removing a capability. If you encounter any issues or can't find a simple upgrade path for an existing script, please reach out on the mailing list. Below is summary of a few typical use cases: 1. Loading scripts. Instead of `document.write("<script src=url></script>");` use `mw.loader.load(url);` instead. 2. Loading stylesheets. Instead of `document.write("<link rel=stylesheet href=url/>");` use `mw.loader.load(url, "text/css");` instead. 3. Creating elements. Instead of `document.write("<div>....</div>");`, use: var nodes = $.parseHTML("<div>..</div>"); $('body').append(nodes); Or something like: $("<div>").attr({ "id": "foo" }).appendTo("body"); Please take some time to look through your wiki's site scripts (MediaWiki:Common.js, MediaWiki:Vector.js, etc.) and make sure document-write is no longer used. You can also use the search engine. For example: https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=document.write&ns8=1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=document.write&ns8=1 Search results from mwgrep on all public wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P1832 Check out the migration page for other deprecations and common issues you may encounter: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_(users) == Further reading == The ResourceLoader improvements that led to this change are tracked under https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107399. Refer to the following workboards for other tasks in this area: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-resourceloader/board/?order… https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/performance-team/board/?order=priority Now that the site and user modules are primary citizens in the ResourceLoader landscape, their states can be tracked with mw.loader. This solves long-outstanding issues such as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106736 which sometimes caused malfunctions in Common.js to affect user gadgets, VisualEditor, and other site tools. — Krinkle [1] http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/

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Showing article information on tap in Wikipedia mobile app (a thank you)
by Tomasz W. Kozlowski 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

Hi! So I'm just going through the latest Wikimedia Foundation quarterly report, and I stumbled on a short passage that mentions a feature of the mobile Wikipedia app that I really, really enjoy using. The ability to view a link preview when clicking on an article link inside the app is just fantastic. Not only does it save time when you only need to quickly look up a fact, but the way that the app does it is elegant and fast. I'm using the alpha version of the app on an Android 5.1 smartphone, and the report says it's also in the beta version, but I do hope it will be added to the stable app too :-) So, to cut a long story short: a huge thank you and please-keep-it-up to the mobile team for implementing this handy little feature :-) -- Tomasz

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct
by Frances Hocutt 07 Aug '15

07 Aug '15

I was also at the Wikimania session where we worked on this draft. I strongly support this effort. Best practices for codes of conduct include clearly defined consequences for breaches, as well as named behaviors that are unacceptable (as not everyone shares the same "common sense", and people interested in behaving badly tend to rules-lawyer as well). Our Phabricator etiquette is lacking both of these, and it does not cover the rest of our technical spaces. An effective code of conduct has been shown to be effective at bringing people from underrepresented groups--and their contributions!--to events and projects. Screening technical contributors by their willingness to take a risk of poor treatment is a terrible idea if we want to get as many good contributions as we can. -Frances On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thank you for drafting this up, Matt. Who's "we" here? > > On 6 August 2015 at 20:19, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > On 08/06/2015 08:17 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> > >> We're in the process of developing a code of conduct for technical > >> spaces. This will be binding, and apply to all Wikimedia-related > >> technical spaces (including but not limited to MediaWiki.org, > >> Phabricator, Gerrit, technical IRC channels, and Etherpad). > > > > > > I forgot to mention (but this is in the draft), it also applies to > physical > > spaces, including but not limited to hackathons. > > > > > > Matt Flaschen > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Engineering mailing list > > Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Engineering mailing list > Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering >

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Goodbye sajax
by Legoktm 07 Aug '15

07 Aug '15

Hello, The deployment of MediaWiki 1.26wmf18 (starting on August 11) will no longer include the legacy and deprecated sajax JavaScript library. It has been emitting deprecation warnings since June 2013[1] (1.22). Reedy has helpfully provided a list of affected site and user scripts on public Wikimedia wikis on Phabricator[2]. Details on how to migrate are provided at [3] (it should be simple to run a semi-auto find/replace bot with a few regexes). If you run into issues migrating or need help, feel free to ask on wikitech-l, IRC (#wikimedia-tech) or m:Tech[4]. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMW35b6b63e48b91c718dd07fa2383104060149b2… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55120#1514868 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55120#1514898 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech Thanks, -- Legoktm

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