Wikitech-l October 2022

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Cookie-based CSS toggles for logged-out readers?
by Samuel Klein 10 Oct '22

10 Oct '22

Dear WT, The perennial discussion about ways to provide logged-out users with persistent customization of their reading experience in the browser has cropped up again in the context of the pending deployment of Vector 2022. Can a cookie-based width toggle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Deployment_of_…> be offered without splitting the cache or otherwise making the toggler regret their tog? The answers currently range from "*shouldn't be very complicated or hacky, just toggling a class*..." and "*can be delivered to logged-out users on top of the cached parser output*.." to "*impossible*". Could someone clarify the challenges and costs of trying to toggle css classes in this way? Warmly, SJ -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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Subject: [REMINDER] Coolest Tool Award 2022: Call for nominations!
by Seyram Komla Sapaty 10 Oct '22

10 Oct '22

Hello! Last reminder, there are 2 days left (today and tomorrow) to submit your Coolest Tool Award <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> nominations. Please recommend your favorite tools! Thanks! Komla, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2022 -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services

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MediaWiki 1.39.0-rc.1 is ready for testing
by Sam Reed 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.39.0-rc.1, the second release candidate for 1.39.0, the next LTS after MediaWiki 1.35. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As with every release of MediaWiki, a large number of changes have landed in the last six months (over 1850 commits since 1.38.0 was cut), and you should read over the preliminary release notes as part of assuring yourself of areas that may have issues with your configuration, your skins, and/or your extensions. As always, please try out the release candidate in a test environment and do report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.39-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release, to make sure that we find them as quickly as possible. It is expected that MediaWiki 1.39 will become final in November 2022, though the date may slip if blockers are identified. Changes since MediaWiki 1.39.0-rc.0: * Localisation updates. * (T318481) composer: Drop symfony/php73-polyfill. * (T318460) SpecialChangeEmail: Set default for returntoquery. * (T318307) HTMLFormField::validate(): Update docs to permit all data types * (T306802) docker: update to latest published images. * (T318754) WebInstallerOptions::addPersonalizationOptions(): Close fieldset. * (T227047) Soft-deprecate the remainder of ActorMigration. * (T316304, CVE-2022-41767) SECURITY: reassignEdits doesn't update results in an IP range check on Special:Contributions. * (T309894, CVE-2022-41765) SECURITY: HTMLUserTextField exposes existence of hidden users. * (T307278, CVE-2022-41766) SECURITY: On action=rollback the message "alreadyrolled" can leak revision deleted user name. * (T319186) .phan/config.php: Update minimum_target_php_version. * Tests: Explicit cast to int in RandomImageGenerator test (php8 warnings). * (T319186) .phan/config.php: Update minimum_target_php_version. * (T310243) Deprecate use of 'wvui-search' package. * utils: Fix return doc about false/null for UrlUtils::expand. * (T319000) WebInstaller: Don't try and run trim() on null. * In the event of preg failure in MagicWordArray throw exception. * (T318753) Installer: Disable logo dropper for now. Preliminary release notes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_39/RELEASE-NOTES-1.39 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.39 Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.39-release/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.39-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0-rc.1.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0-rc.1.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0-rc.1.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0-rc.1.zip Patch to previous version (1.39.0-rc.0): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0-rc.1.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0-rc.1.patch.z… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0-rc.1.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0-rc.1.zi… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0-rc.1.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0-rc.1.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0-rc.1.patch.g… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0-rc.1.patch.z… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
by Srishti Sethi 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Hello everyone, The eighth workshop on the topic of "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" is coming up - it will take place on Friday, October 7th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join here: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_intera…> [1]. This workshop will summarise how to access and save information to Wikidata, including through page generators and queries*, using Pywikibot. It will also cover the Wikidata conventions about the bot editing, including the bot approvals process (*queries not included, please bring your own!). This session will be run by Mike Peel. To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with Wikidata and Pywikibot installation. We look forward to your participation! Best, Srishti On behalf of the SWT Workshops Organization team [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_intera… *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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MediaWiki Extensions and Skins Security Release Supplement (1.35.8/1.37.5/1.38.3)
by Maryum Styles 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

Greetings- With the security/maintenance release of MediaWiki 1.35.8/1.37.5/1.38.3, we would also like to provide this supplementary announcement of MediaWiki extensions and skins with now-public Phabricator tasks, security patches and backports [1]: OAuth + (T308861 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308861>, CVE-2022-39191) - OAuth debug log includes consumer secrets https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/OAuth/+/839460/ GrowthExperiments + (T313205 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313205>, CVE-2022-39194) - Growth's Community configuration makes it possible for rogue admin to take down a site https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I9b3766a71ee403b3a72c8af995e70c3017abe12e IPInfo + (T310763 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310763>, CVE-2022-39192) - IP Info tool shows whether an IP is autoblocked, potentially allowing unmasking of users by correlation https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ib1fdac6b2db70fc33f6d9e9f3e9108b6d65961b4 PageTriage + (T314245 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314245>, CVE-2022-41344) - Someone with patrol user right can mark own article as reviewed if they use api.php?action=pagetriageaction https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I9a3c9dafc634c59d7dbf1d6d62da389046a0e22e OAuth + (T312820 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312820>, CVE-2022-41346) - Special:OAuth/rest_redirect does unrestricted redirects https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I789fb7384d89fbf42df22dc7b1953fb9087d95b1 Translate + (T302479 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302479>, CVE-2022-41345) - Blocked users with "translation administrator" right are able to mark pages for translation https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ic206021 The Wikimedia Security Team recommends updating these extensions and/or skins to the current master branch or relevant, supported release branch [2] as soon as possible. Some of the referenced Phabricator tasks above _may_ still be private. Unfortunately, when security issues are reported, sometimes sensitive information is exposed and since Phabricator is historical, we cannot make these tasks public without exposing this sensitive information. If you have any additional questions or concerns regarding this update, please feel free to contact security(a)wikimedia.org or file a security task within Phabricator [3]. [0] https://w.wiki/5nN3 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311785 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reporting_security_bugs

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Gerrit upgraded from 3.4.5 to 3.4.6
by Antoine Musso 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

Hello, I have upgraded Gerrit from version 3.4.5 to 3.4.6. It addresses a security issue and had one breaking change which should not affect us. It should not have any user facing change beside slightly better performance here and there. Release notes: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.4.html#346 Our task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319513 -- Antoine "hashar" Musso Release Engineering

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TDF is looking for community representatives
by Erica Litrenta 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

*(This email may not be written in your native language, and/or may be a crosspost: our apologies.)* Greetings, everyone. The Technical Decision Forum, or TDF (1), is seeking community representatives. Please visit the TDF Community Representation (2) page for more information, and email TDFSupport(a)wikimedia.org by Aug 12, 2022 to be considered for selection. Don't worry about the requirements listed on wiki, they are not set in stone; just provide your name, name of the group you "represent" if any, and a short sentence or two explaining your interest. For any questions, please post at *MediaWiki.org (3)*, or on the related Movement Strategy Forum topic (4), or simply email TDFSupport(a)wikimedia.org. Thanks, The Technical Decision Forum. (1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Forum (2) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Community_represen… (3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_decision_making/Forum (4) https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/technical-decision-forum-tdf-is-looki… -- ------------------------------ Erica Litrenta (she/her) Senior Manager, Community Relations Specialists (Product) Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)>

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[REMINDER] Coolest Tool Award 2022: Call for nominations!
by Seyram Komla Sapaty 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

Hi everyone! Just a reminder that there are 7 days left to submit your Coolest Tool Award <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> nominations. Please recommend your favorite tools by October 12. Thanks! Komla, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2022 -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services

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Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
by Guillaume Lederrey 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

Hello all! The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds an open meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927 Have fun and see you soon! Guillaume -- *Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him) Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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🚂🌈Summary of 1.40.0-wmf.3 train deployment
by Brennen Bearnes 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of 1.40.0-wmf.3 * Conductor: Brennen Bearnes * Backup Conductor: Jaime Nuche * Blocker Task: T314192 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314192> * Current Status <https://versions.toolforge.org> 🔢 Numbers Sparklines comparing with the last 5 trains. * 208 Patches ██▇▁▃ * 1 Rollbacks ▁▄█▁▄ * 1 Days of delay ▁██▁█ * 1 Blockers ▄▄█▄▁ 🌈 Traintastic Folks ✨ Thanks to folks who reported or resolved blockers: * revi | 레비 * Amir Sarabadani -- Brennen Bearnes Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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