Wikitech-l,
Greetings. I would like to describe an exciting scenario possible with OpenID Connect.
In the scenario, after choosing to verify their name on their Wikipedia account, a user logs onto Wikipedia and uses OpenID Connect to link their Wikipedia account to multiple verified accounts, for example their Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. At the end of the process, we can envision the user obtaining a checkmark next to their full name on Wikipedia, their real name and a verification icon appearing next to their edits and on their user page. There might even be, per user settings, hyperlinks to their Facebook and LinkedIn pages on their Wikipedia user page. With such features, we can envision allowing groups of users or admins to determine that certain articles require a verified account to edit.
Presently, OpenID Connect functionality is available for MediaWiki as an extension. I would like to see the OpenID Connect functionality under discussion expanded to support scenarios including aforementioned and also integrated into MediaWiki.
Thank you. I hope that the above ideas are also interesting to you in the Wikitech-l community.
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
http://www.phoster.com/contents/
Congratulations!
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:25 AM Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <
ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Congratulations! This is going to be a wonderful feature, and it wouldn't
> have happened without the team's dedication and persistence in the face of
> multiple difficulties. I'm so happy that this has been successfully
> deployed.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:20 AM Niharika Kohli <nkohli(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce that GlobalPreferences
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences> is now
>> available on all Wikimedia wikis. This project came out of the Wishlist
>> Survey in December 2016 (
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results).
>> It was #4 on the list. The Community Tech team (
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech) has worked for over 14
>> months, well past the yearly deadline, to deliver on it. This is one of the
>> most important projects this team has ever undertaken.
>>
>> You can enable Global Preferences from *Preferences > Set your global
>> preferences* under your User Profile. You can also set per-wiki
>> exceptions
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences#Local_excep…> for
>> each global preference.
>>
>> This has been a long-desired feature (with the earliest known ticket
>> dating back to July 2008 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T16950).
>> I'd like to give a shout out to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm), Sam Wilson and Max
>> Semenik for all their hard work that went into this project.
>>
>> You can read more about the genesis of the project on the project page:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Global_preferences
>>
>> You can find more information about how to use GlobalPreferences on the
>> Help page:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences
>>
>> Questions and comments are welcome on the discussion page:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:GlobalPreferences
>>
>> If there is a project you deeply care about and would like our team to
>> work on, please remember to submit a proposal for it during the next
>> Wishlist survey (
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2018_Community_Wishlist_Survey)
>> scheduled to take place in November 2018. Make sure to let your friends at
>> Wikimania know about it too. :)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> Niharika
>> Product Manager
>> Community Tech
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>
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Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
This time in English and Farsi!
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Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2018.07. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.30 and 1.31 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.
Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major
changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release.
Please give us your feedback at
[[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.07.tar…
* sha256sum: 36aa80c78be6dcfb533f96dc25afdabd2fd4716452c1b5a6f2bc982def1af7bc
* Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.07.tar…
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Highlights and upgrade notes ==
== Babel ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Fixed Mobileview. (T178782)
== cldr ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Updated cldr to version 33.
== CleanChanges ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Enable CCFiltersOnly by default.
[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Gadgets/export/HoverPopTools
Gadget] can be use as replacement.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
* Maintainance updates only.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Special:SupportedLanguages: List of authors is now sorted by the
number of contributions.
* Message keys coming from external files are now handled with more
care and less likely to produce invalid or inaccessible pages.
([[phab:T193023|T193023]])
* Translation interface has a new keyboard shortcut for saving
translations: Ctrl+Enter. ([[phab:T194915|T194915]])
* Links in displayed message documentation now open in a new tab by default.
* refresh-translatable-pages.php script can now use JobQueue, which is
more efficient on wikis with thousands of translatable pages.
([[phab:T195347|T195347]])
* Translation interface: Fixed positioning of insertables in Timeless skin.
* Custom languages defined in $wgExtraLanguages now always appear in
Special:Translate and Special:SearchTranslations.
([[phab:T112889|T112889]])
* PHPlot is now listed as a composer dependency.
* Improved the interplay of $wgTranslateBlacklist and
blacklist/whitelist in message group configuration.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Maintenance and localisation updates.
==== Input Methods ====
* Fixed rule for 'ж' in Serbian keyboard.
* Added Fon keyboard.
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kartikm.wordpress.com
Hey,
As a pet project of mine, I have been trying to find and fix discrepancies
between the database schema in the codebase (like tables.sql in mediawiki
core) and production. I wrote a script to do a basic analysis and got the
results but it was so big that I needed to cluster them so now we have this
reports: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459#4314828
Some are hot fixes (like tmp_2 indexes) that probably need to be added to
the codebase (with proper name) or dropped from production which needs
investigation.
Some are unimplemented schema changes, like user_options column in user
table that was dropped in the code nine years ago but fell into the cracks
and never got fixed in production.
Some are changes that partially implemented like page_no_title_convert
field on page table that only appear in 32 hosts (around two third of the
hosts) and there is mention of adding it in HISTORY but I can't find any
mention of removing it neither its existence so I have no idea how to
proceed here.
The problem is that these cases need investigation before we can hand it
off to our DBAs. For example, rc_cur_time field in recentchanges table has
been dropped from the mediawiki core in 2014 but it exists in production
but it also still exists in oracle, potgres and mssql schemas but not in
mssql, sqlite or mysql schemas. In this case, we need to fix both
production and several schemas in mediawiki core.
Or text table on 21 hosts (around half of them) has an extra field called
inverse_timestamp which I can't find any mention of it in the code but
there used to be a field with this name in revision table that got dropped
in 2005 and I have no idea how to proceed here.
It would be great if you take a look the clustered reports [1] and make a
phabricator ticket for them and investigate how to proceed here. Thank you
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459#4310482
Best
Hi all,
We wanted to let you know about some planned changes to the
configuration of Page Previews for newly created accounts.[0]
Currently, the feature is off by default for all logged-in users and
on by default for all logged-out users. When people create an account,
the feature will appear to vanish which would be confusing.
We plan to change this configuration and enable the feature for all
new accounts. [1] For current logged-in users, there will be no
changes to the current configuration. If you have the feature off, it
will stay off. If you have it on, it will stay on. If there are no
major concerns raised, we plan on making these changes sometime in
early July, 2018.
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197719
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation