Wikitech-l December 2023

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Security pre-release announcement: 1.35.14 / 1.39.6 / 1.40.2
by Sam Reed 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Hi all, On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.35.14 - 1.39.6 - 1.40.2 1.41.0 is expected to follow shortly after. This will resolve one minor security issue in MediaWiki core, along with bug fixes included for maintenance reasons. This includes various patches for PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 support. This release may or may not be made with a CVE number formally attached, due to the recent delays in receiving them from MITRE. We will make the fixes available in the respective release branches and master in git. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point releases as well. A summary of some of the security fixes that have gone into non-bundled MediaWiki extensions will also follow later. As a reminder, when 1.35 was released, it was originally due to become end of life (EOL) at the end of September 2023. Due to 1.39 being released late (November 2022), and to honor the commitment to the 1 year overlap of MediaWiki LTS releases, this formal EOL process was delayed till at least the end of November 2023, with the suggestion it would be December 2023. It is therefore expected that this 1.35.14 will become the final release for the 1.35 branch, and 1.35 will formally become end of life afterwards. A separate announcement will be sent for that. It is strongly recommended to upgrade to either 1.39 (the next LTS after 1.35), which will be supported until November 2025, 1.40, which will be supported until June 2024, or 1.41, which will be supported until December 2024. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

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Re: Inquiry Regarding Opportunities to contribute
by Vaishnavi Maheshwari 17 Dec '23

17 Dec '23

Hey! I am trying to understand wikimedia codebase but I am not able to grasp things properly. Can someone tell which will be the best project to work on if my techstack include js react and python....but I am not too good at any one of these languages. So as a newbie in which project should I contribute now? On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:15 PM Mailtrack Notification < notification(a)mailtrack.io> wrote: > 🔥 Hot conversation: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org opened it many times > in a short period or forwarded it. View all 426 opens > <https://mailtrack.io/reauth?url=https://mailtrack.io/en/dashboard/show/2903…> > | turn off hot conversations > <https://mailtrack.io/en/dashboard/hot-notification/disable> >

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Cloudflare Turnstile as a CAPTCHA alternative?
by psnbaotg 16 Dec '23

16 Dec '23

Hello all, I would like to draw your attention to task [T333770](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333770) I created several months ago, for evaluating Cloudflare Turnstile as an alternative to Wikimedia's Fancy Captcha which is broken in [multiple](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289607) [ways](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6845). This is just my suggestion from a volunteer's perspective. I can see growing adoption of Turnstile in the wild (like Bing AI) in the past months, and it looks like a good balance between accessibility and bot-stopping ability. Consequently, it may better fit us than hCaptcha. I have described the pros and cons in the task. Hope somebody responsible for this area could take a look at this alternative. It will be much appreciated! Best, Diskdance

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toolsdb is readonly?
by Arthur Smith 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

I'm seeing an error - "The MariaDB server is running with the --read-only option" - anybody know what's going on? Arthur

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Comments like Google Docs
by Felipe Schenone 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Hi! I'm thinking on writing a gadget to add inline comments to articles, similar to how Google Docs comments work. However, I'm sure I recently read somewhere about someone developing an extension or something with the same goal, but now I can't find it anywhere. Anyone knows? Thanks!

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MediaWiki 1.41.0-rc.0 is ready for testing
by James Forrester 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.41.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.41.0. 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 six months of development (over 2300 commits since 1.40.0 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-1.41-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 1.41 will become final next week. This date may slip into next year if blockers are identified. Preliminary release notes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_41/RELEASE-NOTES-1.41 Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.41-release/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.41-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0-rc.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0-rc.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0-rc.0.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0-rc.0.zi… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0-rc.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0-rc.0.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html -- James D. Forrester (he/him or they/themself) Wikimedia Foundation

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Introducing Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist!
by Srishti Sethi 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Hello everyone, Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey>. The inaugural community edition will take place from *March 15th to 17th, 2024*. You can learn more and sign up here: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>. Since May 2022, the Community Tech team has organized five Wishathons < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon> internal to Foundation staff to bring greater technical capacity to address open wishes and promote collaboration on wishes within the product & technology teams. Since the inception of the Wishathon, Foundation staff have helped Community Tech complete work on 10 wishes that were otherwise stalling or incomplete. This next edition of the Wishathon extends to Wikimedia contributors as a next step in these efforts. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you are welcome to join the event! If you wish to take part in the Wishathon, you can register for the event on this wiki page: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>. Organizers will send a message to your talk page with more details about the event in January 2024 and post updates on this page. Read the full announcement: < https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/11/introducing-wishathon-for-wikimedias-…> Cheers, Srishti On behalf of the Wishathon organizing committee (Harumi, TheresNoTime, Karolin, Mary, Sheila, Srishti) *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Document usage of gadget exports for other gadgets' use
by psnbaotg 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Hello all, Testing shows that a gadget can export something for another gadget (or user script) to use. But I cannot find any documentation regarding this. (Please don't confuse this with package gadgets -- they are different concepts.) Examples here: https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-packagefileuser.js and https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-packagefilebase-file1.js. I would like to draw your attention to this, as there is [a default gadget on Chinese Wikipedia](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-HanAssist.js) utilizing this feature, so things can be better if this is officially documented. For more information, please checke out [T349459](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349459), thanks. Best regards, Diskdance

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] December 12 at 17:30 UTC
by Kinneret Gordon 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Hi All, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Tuesday, December 12, at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1702402200>. This is a special showcase featuring a panel titled *"*A year of Generative AI: *Future directions for Wikimedia". *You can find more information on this showcase below. You can watch via the YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/UnAsD7-hZpo?feature=share <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtube.com/live/UnAsD7-hZpo?feature%3…>. As usual, you can join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live. *This December marks the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT with the resulting public interest in generative AI and growing research focus on practical uses of large language models. There has been much discussion about how these generative models might disrupt the Wikimedia projects but also prototyping to see where they might be useful. To discuss what we've learned in the past year and what opportunities ahead are being enabled by research, we bring together a panel of four folks: Isaac Johnson (senior research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation) will be the moderator and the three panelists are User:Barkeep49 [1], Maryana Pinchuk [2], and Robert West [3] to bring perspectives from the volunteer, product, and research communities. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Barkeep49 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Barkeep49> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MPinchuk_(WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MPinchuk_(WMF)> [3] https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/ <https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/> * Looking forward to seeing you there! -- Kinneret Gordon Lead Research Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Contributing to Wikimedia
by Aryann Dwivedi 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Dear Sir/Madam, I am Aryann Dwivedi, currently enrolled as an engineering student at NIT Nagpur. This marks my initial venture into the realm of open source contribution. Proficient in languages such as javascript, typescript, node,php, I have successfully executed several projects. Now, I am eager to channel my skills and contribute to your community. In pursuit of this goal, I want to seek guidance and mentorship from an experienced individual who possesses expertise in the mentioned domains. I am enthusiastic about taking on a small issue or feature to work on under your mentorship. Thank you for considering my request.

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