This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting on Wednesday. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets.

Activity since Monday 2020-08-31 on the following boards:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/

Committee inbox: * RFC: Parsoid Extension API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260714 - see TechCom weekly digest 2020-09-02

Committee board activity: none New RFCs: none Phase progression: none IRC meeting request: none

Other RFC activity: * MediaWiki's anonymous edit token leaves wiki installations (incl. Wikipedia) open to mass anonymous spam we can't block https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40417 - dbarratt suggests to block anonymous POST requests with the Origin header that contains a value that is not in the allowlist. - Bawolff thinks it could work if done correctly.

- Niklas