The HtmlBuilder module virus, also known as HB-N1, which stemmed at the English Wikipedia, has infected many other sites: b:id:Modul:HtmlBuilder https://id.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modul:HtmlBuilder Since the creation of the mw.html library https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#HTML_library, very few attempts to actually defeat it have been done. We need your help. Spread this out to your wiki!
2014-06-07 0:24 GMT+02:00 Ricordisamoa ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org:
The HtmlBuilder module virus, also known as HB-N1, which stemmed at the English Wikipedia, has infected many other sites: b:id:Modul:HtmlBuilder https://id.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modul:HtmlBuilder Since the creation of the mw.html library https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#HTML_library, very few attempts to actually defeat it have been done. We need your help. Spread this out to your wiki!
Sorry, is there some more context available? What does this "virus" do? From where is it coming?
Cristian
I believe it is an ironic call for action to move from scripted HtmlBuilder to its "native" equivalent.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com wrote:
2014-06-07 0:24 GMT+02:00 Ricordisamoa ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org:
The HtmlBuilder module virus, also known as HB-N1, which stemmed at the English Wikipedia, has infected many other sites: b:id:Modul:HtmlBuilder https://id.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modul:HtmlBuilder Since the creation of the mw.html library <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#HTML...
, very few attempts to actually defeat it have been done. We need your help. Spread this out to your wiki!
Sorry, is there some more context available? What does this "virus" do? From where is it coming?
Cristian
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Ricordisamoa wrote:
The HtmlBuilder module virus, also known as HB-N1, which stemmed at the English Wikipedia, has infected many other sites: b:id:Modul:HtmlBuilder https://id.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modul:HtmlBuilder
Hi.
Thank you for starting this thread. In my experience, it's more helpful to give people an actionable list of places where they can help. This also establishes a clear goal, which people often respond better to. Assuming every wiki uses the name "HtmlBuilder", it shouldn't be too difficult to iterate through the Wikimedia wikis to find wikis where this module still has transclusions. This should provide a useful list of places for people to help out, at which point the magical wiki process can take over. :-)
MZMcBride
Yes, AFAIK every wiki uses the name "HtmlBuilder". When bug 62982 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62982 is resolved, it will be easy to go on a random wiki, search the string "HtmlBuilder" in all modules (ns-828), and make some semi-automated replacements as I did here https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=37142221&diff=38218438. However, since most of the transclusions come from other modules imported from the English Wikipedia, it will be wiser to wait for the original modules to be updated, and then simply re-import them on the 'small' wikis. (Waiting for bug 50329 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50329!)
Il 07/06/2014 01:43, MZMcBride ha scritto:
Hi.
Thank you for starting this thread. In my experience, it's more helpful to give people an actionable list of places where they can help. This also establishes a clear goal, which people often respond better to. Assuming every wiki uses the name "HtmlBuilder", it shouldn't be too difficult to iterate through the Wikimedia wikis to find wikis where this module still has transclusions. This should provide a useful list of places for people to help out, at which point the magical wiki process can take over. :-)
MZMcBride
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