Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy list whitelist

4 Apr 2019

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the Clarification, From what I know, the issue was present for
about 10 hours. I'm not sure how widespread the impact was page wise. Is it
worth summarising what happened anywhere else?

Thanks,
RhinosF1

On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 21:15, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) &lt;nwilson(a)wikimedia.org&gt;
wrote:

...
  Hi RhinosF1,
 It was only a single webpage that was reported as being blocked by the
 browser extension (although there were presumably other pages and wikis
 affected that went unreported in the past), thus it is probably not of
 great concern to our thousands of contributors who read the short Tech News
 newsletter. We try to keep the newsletter short and focused on important
 items of widespread interest, both for ease of translation and so that
 people read it in full each week. You can read details about what normally
 gets included at
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors
 Cheers,

 On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:38 PM RhinosF1 Wikipedia &lt;rhinosf1(a)gmail.com&gt;
 wrote:

  Hi,
 Thanks to Nick for the PR.

 As far as I understand, Easy list is some sort of ad blocking system that
 multiple ad blockers use.

 From what I can see, Wiktionary got caught up in a block on URLs ending
 in /ads and /advert making some pages blank. It's best to read the Tech IRC
 log from 4pm onwards to get the idea.

 I'll have a look at Tech News. I'm happy to write a proper report on what
 happened if necessary. Where you would suggest posting it? I can't use
 Wikitech due to Account Creation block.

 Thanks,
 RhinosF1

 On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 19:02, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
 nwilson(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:

  Easy List seems to be one of the component in
various adblocker tools
 (possibly enabled by default in some or all of them?).
 https://easylist.to/
 E.g. the "uBlock Origin" extension's settings panel which lists it,
 apparently enabled by default:
 https://i.postimg.cc/yN217Tg5/Selection-001.jpg
 I've submitted a pull-request at
 https://github.com/easylist/easylist/pull/3190
 (and +1 to the "please include sufficient context" note :)

 On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:58 AM Andre Klapper &lt;aklapper(a)wikimedia.org&gt;
 wrote:

  On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 16:08 +0100, RhinosF1
Wikipedia wrote:
 > Could someone please see if WMF wikis could be whitelisted as a  follow up
  > to
 > https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3188?

 What does that mean? Whitelisting what exactly? Where? Please include
 sufficient context to allow folks on this list to understand relevance.

 > Despite the short term distruption, Could it be placed on Tech News  as
  > users were noticing that some pages were
blocked?

 See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News for "Inclusion criteria"
 under "Get started". Obviously I have no idea what "Easy List" is.

 Cheers,
 andre
 --
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 https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy list whitelist