[Wikimedia-l] Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy

Do you have a source for that number? On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 at 20:38, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > As for nobody at Wikimedia profiting off the free content created by > volunteers, that is relative. WMF salary costs currently average over > $200,000 per employee. In most parts of the world, that woul

Re: [Cloud] Help with a MediaWiki instance on WMCloud - spammers

The Wikimania wiki is part of the production cluster so gets privileged access to the production CentralAuth database. I'm not sure if the prod wikis can act as an identity provider for other sites to consume On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 at 19:27, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > I would love to do the same! Can

Re: [Cloud] Help with a MediaWiki instance on WMCloud - spammers

Hi Denny, Have you seen https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights? You might be able to do something like `$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;` On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 18:59, De

Re: [Cloud] Publishing out of a VPS node?

You might try: sudo a2enmod mpm_prefork Failing that, what's the name of your instance and project? I can probably sort it out for you On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 13:30, Roy Smith wrote: > Hmmm, it turns out, this doesn't work. Apache fails to start with: > > AH00534: apache2: Configuration error:

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] [Toolforge] New Kubernetes cluster open for beta testers

m, 12 de jan de 2020 20:14, Alex Monk escreveu: > >> I think I've seen that particular error that you see in stdout/stderr >> (via kubectl logs) before - on pods that in fact were working. >> >> Meanwhile, uwsgi.log says: >> >> Python version: 3.7.3 (defaul

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] [Toolforge] New Kubernetes cluster open for beta testers

kubectl logs > countcounttest-6b58f5c547-785mr > open("/usr/lib/uwsgi/plugins/python_plugin.so"): No such file or directory > [core/utils.c line 3724] > !!! UNABLE to load uWSGI plugin: /usr/lib/uwsgi/plugins/python_plugin.so: > cannot open shared object file: No such f

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] [Toolforge] New Kubernetes cluster open for beta testers

RESTARTS >> AGE >> countcounttest-6b58f5c547-mf4jx 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 >> 77s >> >> I will leave that running. If the container gets created I might also be >> able to reproduce the segfault. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Count Count >

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] [Toolforge] New Kubernetes cluster open for beta testers

ContainerCreating 0 > 77s > > I will leave that running. If the container gets created I might also be > able to reproduce the segfault. > > Best regards, > > Count Count > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:20 PM Alex Monk wrote: > >> Hi Count Count, >

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] [Toolforge] New Kubernetes cluster open for beta testers

Hi Count Count, I'm afraid you seem to have no pods on the new cluster to look at: # kubectl get -n tool-flaggedrevspromotioncheck pod No resources found. Alex On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 21:07, Count Count wrote: > Hi! > > I don't have much luck with a webservice based on the python3.7 image. It

Re: [Cloud] What's my URL?

You mean, that you just get the path determined by the name of your tool on the server? The tool creation form on toolsadmin does say "The tool name is used as part of the URL for the tool's webservice." On Sun, 12 Jan 2020, 05:47 Roy Smith, wrote: > Never mind, I found it by trial-and-error.

Re: [Cloud] What's my URL?

https://tools.wmflabs.org/spi-tools On Sun, 12 Jan 2020, 05:36 Roy Smith, wrote: > I've got a django-based tool that I was previously running in test mode > directly on the bastion hosts using runserver. Now I'm trying to move that > over the kubernetes for production. I've got things to the p

Re: [Cloud] Adding SSH key to wikitech?

age before. Are there > other interfaces that might have also got them into LDAP? > > > > On Jan 11, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Alex Monk wrote: > > Looks like you already have those keys in LDAP: > $ ldapsearch -LLLx mail=r...@panix.com cn sshPublicKey -o ldif-wrap=no > dn: uid=

Re: [Cloud] Adding SSH key to wikitech?

/UZRGfKI1TWzYrmY+YerZUZJF3o9VA0y3D9IE76OFg2BqQpcQh7KbSF0qemM7mFJWdSdMnEbo1AnrX7jxZ+mz0Cdh RoySmith/wikimedia I get the same error if I try to add a duplicate key. On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 14:54, Roy Smith wrote: > On Jan 11, 2020, at 6:34 AM, Alex Monk wrote: > > Wikitech writes it into L

Re: [Cloud] Adding SSH key to wikitech?

(On the other hand if you just want to use Gerrit and not SSH into any Cloud VPS things, you can probably skip this step) On Sat, 11 Jan 2020, 11:34 Alex Monk, wrote: > Wikitech writes it into LDAP where it'll get read when you SSH into things. > > Please paste your public key

Re: [Cloud] Adding SSH key to wikitech?

Wikitech writes it into LDAP where it'll get read when you SSH into things. Please paste your public key here so we can have a look. On Sat, 11 Jan 2020, 03:21 Roy Smith, wrote: > I'm working my way through the instructions at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial/tl;dr. I'm up to a

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] unexpected VM reboots

he hostmask. > > Thanks, > RhinosF1 > > On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 at 12:18, David Richfield > wrote: > >> Thank you so much!! >> >> Alex Monk schrieb am Sa., 28. Dez. 2019, 13:16: >> >>> I doubt it's that as the tools project didn't loose a

Re: [Cloud] Umlaut issue

IIRC horizon uses CN for login rather than UID, and https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/user/dhun suggests the CN is Dirk Hünniger. dhun is just the UID. On Sun, 29 Dec 2019, 15:15 Platonides, wrote: > Your account is just dhun > > Instead of creating a new account, it would be much more

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] unexpected VM reboots

I doubt it's that as the tools project didn't loose any exec instances in this issue that I'm aware of. Anyway I started that tool up krenair@tools-sgebastion-07:~$ sudo become parliamentdiagram tools.parliamentdiagram@tools-sgebastion-07:~$ webservice status Your webservice is not running tools.p

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.css

It sounds like your bureaucrat group has the editsitejs right but not the editsitecss right. On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 at 10:58, Peter Presland wrote: > Running MW 1.32.2 with Bureaucrat privilages > > The edit tab does not appear in Mediawiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.css > although it does appear in

Re: [Cloud] Cassandra?

This page appears to be about a production setup of Cassandra rather than something publicly accessible. I'm not aware of a publicly accessible one provided for Cloud VPS projects / Toolforge tools, sorry. On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, 20:47 Roy Smith, wrote: > Is there a publicly-accessable Cassandra ins

Re: [Cloud] Cassandra?

Things in the tools project should probably not be talking internally to things in deployment-prep, especially sessionstore instances. deployment-prep instances are not intended to provide services to other labs projects. On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, 22:44 Daniel Zahn, wrote: > There is a "role::beta::ca

Re: [Cloud] /util/arch and /usrlbin//now missing?

Looks like maybe the trick is to set the environment SGE_ROOT=/var/lib/gridengine Or, `qstat` instead of `qstatus`. On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 22:01, Roy Smith wrote: > When I run qstatus on tools-sgebastion-08, I get the following errors: > > > (env) utils $ qstatus > /usr/bin/qstatus: line 299: /u

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TLS

Sounds like you may have been affected by https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238038 which would've sent you to a page like https://meta.wikimedia.org/sec-warning Why are you attempting to connect using old versions of TLS? On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 at 20:30, Benjamin Ikuta wrote: > > > Was support for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Persistence of old vandalized Wikipedia articles in Google search, especially for zombie attacks

I've had a few successes in the past with getting Google to remove vandalised versions of pages from their cache/main search results using https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals?pli=1 - in this case it appears in the knowledge panel but not the cached copy of the page, so it might be more

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cryptographic puzzles as mitigation for DDoS

I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that the attacker was just flooding the network with traffic? On Sat, 7 Sep 2019, 12:25 John Erling Blad, wrote: > There are several papers about how to stop DDoS by using cryptographic > puzzles.[1] The core idea is to give the abuser some algorith

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe browsers always ignored HPKP rules when presented with a cert signed by a CA that is locally installed rather than default. On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, 12:58 John Erling Blad, wrote: > The Kazakhstan MITM could be stopped by HTTP Public Key Pinning [1], but > Chrom

Re: [Cloud] problems resolving external host

I looked at `dig eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov +trace` and at `strace -f dig eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov +trace` - it looks to me like NIH's nameservers are not willing to serve labs? On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 05:59, Konrad Koehler via Cloud < cloud@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > The following tool has been r

Re: [Cloud] Another SQL optimization request

It looks to me like the query attempts to count all logged-in non-bot page creations in certain namespaces, grouped by user, and each user also has their counts for the various different individual namespaces shown. On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 09:53, Jaime Crespo wrote: > > Finally, any advice on how

Re: [Cloud] Toolforge SQL performance issue with new comment table

I believe John is trying to make the implication that the comment table was created purely for the sake of normalisation, but I believe it came out of the concerns around the size of the revision table: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Brion_VIBBER/Compacting_the_revision_table_round_2 On Mon,

Re: [Cloud] Optimalizing a SQL query

To use those indexes on title you also need to filter by log_namespace: MariaDB [commonswiki_p]> select count(*) from logging_logindex where log_type="thanks" and log_title="Martin_Urbanec" and log_namespace = 2; +--+ | count(*) | +--+ |6 | +--+ 1 row in set (0.03 se

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pending (false positive?) translations on Gerrit to Toolforge tools

Working link to l10n-bot's dashboard: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/dashboard/137 On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 13:12, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > I'm still not able to open the link > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/dashboard/l10n-...@translatewiki.net, but I > am able to open this for example: > https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dynamically setting the content of a LayoutPanel in OOUI

I haven't dealt with OOUI for a couple of years but maybe you could pass a jQuery object to the $content parameter, store it yourself, then modify that later? On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 at 14:14, Huji Lee wrote: > In the script I am working on,[1] I have a PanelLayout that is defined like > this: > >

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New PDF Render decommissioned on 1st January 2020?

On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 20:28, Tisza Gergő wrote: > I think the WMF ran its own mwlib service a long time ago (2013-ish?) but > it didn't work well > I could be misremembering but wasn't that the thing that nobody knew how to reproduce the setup of and was one of the last things left in pmtpa? __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 18:04, Strainu wrote: > Several things: > * the bug backlog has been steadily increasing in all phabricator reports I > have seen (I don't read them all, so some decreases might have occurred > occasionally, but the trend is there) > * feature development is prioritized over

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript function does not work

Is the jquery.ui.dialog module loaded in RL? Where is this failing and where is it fine? ‪On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 14:47, ‫יגאל חיטרון‬‎ wrote:‬ > Hi. Some script stopped working. Looks like the function > > $( '' ).dialog( ... ) // 1 parameter > > does not work any more. But it still works on diff

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Please allow folks to use Gerrit GitHub

Please copy+paste my URL. There is no ssh in it. On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 22:36, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:35 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:30 PM Alex Monk wrote: > > > > > > It seems Gerrit assumes you have

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Please allow folks to use Gerrit GitHub

It seems Gerrit assumes you have a Gerrit account with an SSH key that matches one in your SSH agent. If not, you can use URLs like this instead: git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit.git On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 22:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > This makes no sens

Re: [Cloud-announce] [Cloud] CloudVPS Trusty instances shutdown

More affected projects: math: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204509 osmit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204527 globaleducation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214160 (incorrect upgrade) wikidata-dev: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214161 (incorrect upgrade) On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at

Re: [Cloud] CloudVPS Trusty instances shutdown

More affected projects: math: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204509 osmit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204527 globaleducation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214160 (incorrect upgrade) wikidata-dev: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214161 (incorrect upgrade) On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Export to PDF, LaTeX, EPUB, ODT and HTML

to cover > the costs, so *please consider downloading the full version for free* and > running at on your own hardware instead of using this server. > > Yours Dirk > On 12/25/18 2:30 PM, Alex Monk wrote: > > I saw this has a notice saying: > "The server this interface i

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Export to PDF, LaTeX, EPUB, ODT and HTML

I saw this has a notice saying: "The server this interface is running on is run by a private person, who has to cover the costs" But the site appears to be running through Wikimedia Cloud VPS, in a project named collection-alt-renderer? On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 at 12:48, Dirk Hünniger via Wikitech-amba

Re: [Wikitech-l] Old tiles.wfmlabs.org maps services need maintainers to keep them alive after december 18th

You'll basically need to create a wikitech account (if you don't already have one) and convince one of the existing project admins (listed at https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/project/maps) to add you. Please use Puppet instead of manually setting up servers by hand. On Thu, 13 Dec 2018

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Maps-l] Old tiles.wfmlabs.org maps services need maintainers to keep them alive after december 18th

I don't think WMF should be hiring contractors purely for the purpose of supporting individual tools which are not in production. On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 15:46, Pine W wrote: > Hi DJ, > > Out of curiosity, what all would be involved in the OS change? > > The bike layers could be a nontrivial loss

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment-prep (aka 'Beta') services will be unreliable this week

at 17:15, Alex Monk wrote: > For the record this is largely complete with a few known remaining > problems: > * MediaWiki does not recognise the new cache instance due to missing > config change, the patch is ready but requires a deployer, this does cause > problems for thin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment-prep (aka 'Beta') services will be unreliable this week

For the record this is largely complete with a few known remaining problems: * MediaWiki does not recognise the new cache instance due to missing config change, the patch is ready but requires a deployer, this does cause problems for things like account creations: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Cloud] Autopromoted groups aren't listed in user_groups table

Actually now that I think about it, it will probably include everyone who met the autopromotion criteria after that got deployed by editing, just with the wrong timestamps? On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 19:03, Alex Monk wrote: > Yeah. Don't rely on that too much though as it won&#

Re: [Cloud] Autopromoted groups aren't listed in user_groups table

7:22, 30 October 2018 Kubaski (talk | contribs) was > automatically updated from (none) to extended confirmed user (thank) on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/rights . > > Best, > Martin > > út 30. 10. 2018 v 13:53 odesílatel Alex Monk napsal: > >> Hi m

Re: [Cloud] Autopromoted groups aren't listed in user_groups table

Hi max, I think the implicit groups don't get stored in the database by MediaWiki, they are determined at runtime. You might be able to go through https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Busers with usprop=implicitgroups and filter them yourself. Many thanks Alex On Tue, 3

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Engineering] Translations on hold untilfurther notice

Thank you, but please stop sending the same message to the list over and over again. On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 20:41, Peter T Ljungman wrote: > Best Alex ! > > > > Thank you for your work and time, getting this info out. > > > > Take Care > > > > // P

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Dynamic Parsoid configuration

Can't Parsoid be made to listen for SIGHUP and reload config from disk? On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 22:43, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > Hello! > > This has come up previously ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100841 > ) but Parsoid doesn't have this support at this time. > > On startup, Parsoid loads

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Map overlay on wmflabs

ct to scold Wikipedians who act in > good faith. > > User:Finell > > > > *From:* Wikitech-ambassadors < > wikitech-ambassadors-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> *On Behalf Of *Alex Monk > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2018 3:33 AM > *To:* Coordination of technology dep

Re: [Wikitech-l] problematic use of "Declined" in Phabricator

I agree, tasks should not be declined in such a way when tagged with component(s). On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 17:31, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Hi, > > I sometimes see WMF developers and product managers marking tasks as > "Declined" with comments such as these: > * "No resources for it in (team name)"

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Map overlay on wmflabs

I suggest contacting the maintainers of the tool rather than a mailing list. In this case that seems to be https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kolossos and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Retsam On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 11:17, Deryck Chan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This tool: > > ht

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Ubuntu deprecation plans

Arturo wasn't around at the time but I've done some digging and found some of the original discussion along with a public summary on the predecessor of this list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-February/003399.html On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 19:13, Pine W wrote: > Hi Arturo, > > O

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Translations on hold until further notice

Since this is clearly a request to developers, I suggest posting a link to the relevant ticket(s). Alex On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 23:20, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > tl;dr: Please refrain from adding new strings that require translations > to MediaWiki and deployed extensions until further notice. > >

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Engineering] Translations on hold until further notice

Since this is clearly a request to developers, I suggest posting a link to the relevant ticket(s). Alex On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 23:20, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > tl;dr: Please refrain from adding new strings that require translations > to MediaWiki and deployed extensions until further notice. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Overriding MW core messages via extension

Yeah but it's not pretty - take a look at the first function in https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikimediaMessages/blob/master/WikimediaMessages.hooks.php On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, 21:34 James Montalvo, wrote: > Is it possible to override messages part of MediaWiki core via an > exte

Re: [Wikitech-l] Datacenter switchover and switchback

Wiki creation relies on experienced deployers and ops, I would expect they all know. On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, 16:49 Pine W, wrote: > A couple of additional points came to mind. > > 1. Blocking the creation of new wikis sounds like it could be a big deal. > I know little about the process for getting

Re: [Cloud] Python gives "invalid syntax" error only on labs

What are the versions of Python involved? On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 at 21:34, Huji Lee wrote: > Hello, > > When I run this script[1] on my own machine it runs without any problem. > When I run it on Labs, I get an invalid syntax error, pasted below. Can you > please help me figure out why? > > Thanks!

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

It's probably also worth noting that that is not the standard imposed by the quoted CoC line. On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, 20:49 Isarra Yos, wrote: > Expecting every single comment to specifically move things forward > seems... a bit excessive, frankly. Not everyone is going to have the > vocabulary to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making two factor auth less annoying

Yeah I wrote some code that got U2F support working through inside the OATHAuth extension, though I don't think it ever got to Gerrit. On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, 10:31 Simon Walker, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 12/08/18 17:47, Petr Bena wrote: > > Right now there a

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

tion in the first place, and which was only relayed to this > > list through a non-neutral party? > > > > Cheers, > > Lucas > > > > Am Mi., 8. Aug. 2018 um 16:45 Uhr schrieb Dan Garry < > dga...@wikimedia.org>: > > > >> On 8 August 2018 a

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

Are you trying to ban people discussing CoC committee decisions publicly? Not that it even looks like he wrote grievances. On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, 14:23 Dan Garry, wrote: > On 8 August 2018 at 13:53, MZMcBride wrote: > > > > Ah, I found the e-mail: […] > > > > This mailing list is not an appropriat

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

So are we supposed to be careful about using 'wtf' now? On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, 13:53 MZMcBride, wrote: > Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > >I disabled the account and now I disabled it again. It's part of a CoC > >ban. We sent the user an email using the "Email to user" functionality > >from mediawiki.org th

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

If there isn't any logging of this stuff how do we know it's your anti vandalism bot and not a rogue admin? On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, 01:17 Mukunda Modell, wrote: > I think you were a victim of a false-positive with the anti-vandalism tech > that's been recently deployed in phabricator. > Unfortunatel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

On 28 July 2018 at 03:19, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Thank you to everyone that has provided thoughtful and constructive input > on this discussion, and to the volunteers who are investigating the > possible policy violations. We have some additional information on this > vendor relationship and on

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Additional European-appropriate MediaWiki train window starting week of July 9th (also SWAT change)

starts or ends, so it just moves the problem around instead > of really getting rid of it. > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Alex Monk wrote: > >> As long as these get pinned to SF time what the rest of the US does with >> regards to DST is irrelevant. If California drops

[Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Additional European-appropriate MediaWiki train window starting week of July 9th (also SWAT change)

As long as these get pinned to SF time what the rest of the US does with regards to DST is irrelevant. If California drops DST then it no longer affects deployments pinned to SF time. On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, 19:42 Brad Jorsch (Anomie), wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Kunal Mehta > wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

On 10 July 2018 at 12:06, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > 1) Not all communities have been informed about this future change ( > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Distribution_list/Technical_Village_Pumps_ > distribution_list > ) The plan appears to be to do this, maybe it just hasn't happened yet: ht

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

Yes, though careful because CommunityTechBot shows up as a subscriber to lots of tasks now which are getting comments from other people, so it appears on the Cc list at the bottom of each email notification. On 2 July 2018 at 19:06, Ed Sanders wrote: > +100 > > Also a tip for those of you wantin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Status of Wikipedia Zero

So we just need someone to populate that table with expiry dates? On 1 July 2018 at 16:41, Steinsplitter Wiki wrote: > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_partnerships > > --Steinsplitter > > > Von: Wikimedia-l im Auftrag von > Michael Snow > Gesendet:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board of Trustees April 2018 meeting minutes

"*Non-Board members present:* [...], Jaime Villagomez (Treasurer; Chief Financial Officer)" On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, 20:46 James Salsman, wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for posting the minutes. Regarding "Jaime presented a proposed > revision to the Foundation investment policy that shifted to a mode

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

And that's fine and good and should continue, but doesn't mean it's a shared ownership model. As I was saying before with the analogy, global users make uncontroversial edits using their rights but aren't supposed to use their global rights to involve themselves in controversies. On 9 June 2018 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

On 9 June 2018 at 18:14, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:00 AM Alex Monk wrote: > > > This is outrageous. Not only are you blatantly misrepresenting what > various > > people are saying in the other thread and their intentions, > > > Perhaps.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

This is outrageous. Not only are you blatantly misrepresenting what various people are saying in the other thread and their intentions, you are now suggesting that repository owners do not in fact get to decide what goes in their repository and what does not, as if this has been the case all along.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can/should my extensions be deleted from the Wikimedia Git repository?

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, 17:08 Chris Koerner, wrote: > > You probably meant just "README". This is an interesting comparison. So, > if > > an extension lacks a README file, and that extension's maintainer refuses > > to put one in, should the extension be deleted from the Wikimedia > > repository? > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can/should my extensions be deleted from the Wikimedia Git repository?

I think Gerrit admin permissions were abused to remove the review On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, 11:57 Nischay Nahata, wrote: > It did sound like a threat given that no policy has been framed around > this, but I am glad to know that it was not your intent. > > Also, its strange that someone can just remov

Jira (PUP-8890) 5.5 docs missing schema files

Title: Message Title Alex Monk created an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recent statement on the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

I think they can see the subdomain too (i.e. en.wikipedia.org or tr.wikipedia.org) but yeah. On Thu, 24 May 2018, 09:13 James Hare, wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:55 AM, David Cuenca Tudela > wrote: > > > Hi Eileen, > > > > Thanks for the follow up and for the nice letter that you wrote to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2018-03

I thought it was pretty unambiguous already... On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, 15:14 יגאל חיטרון, wrote: > I see, thank you. But maybe you should change it from Differential to > *Differential* or something, for the next one that will confuse. > Igal > > > On Apr 1, 2018 04:23, "James Hare" wrote: > > 19 D

Re: [Wikitech-l] What ways are there to include user-edited JavaScript in a wiki page? (threat model: crypto miners)

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018, 18:16 Chico Venancio, wrote: > Alex Monk wrote: > I don't think the communities actually want js injected without code-review > that much. They (we) do want to have easy access to gadget and scripts > though. > Attempting to impose any procedure that mes

Re: [Wikitech-l] What ways are there to include user-edited JavaScript in a wiki page? (threat model: crypto miners)

> > of any similar incidents. We have had wiki administrators inadvertently > > > inject scripts with privacy issues, such as Google Analytics. These > > > scripts have generally been promptly removed when noticed. On the other > > > hand, pages such as <https://st

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Parsoid (Heroku) & Mediawiki

Did you update the parsoid config? It will need to know where to find the wiki. On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, 04:41 , wrote: > On 2018-03-16 14:03, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > > >> Hi Greg, > >> > >> I have actually already tried adding the REMOTE_ADDR snippet. I have > used both 127.0.0.1 and the

Re: [Wikitech-l] News about TLS 1.3

I read the Cloudflare section on middleboxes and I wonder if it was really a good idea for them to go making changes to allow for existing boxes to do that. They are not legitimate parties to a TLS connection and browsers and websites should not have to change how they communicate to deal with thei

Re: [QA] [Cloud-admin] [Ops] Delete button on gerrit

Wow, sounds like someone has been stuffing beans up the Gerrit developers' noses . On 5 March 2018 at 20:22, Ian Marlier wrote: > If you happen to have an adblocker installed, you can add the delete > button to t

Re: [Cloud] Request to add centralauth to the meta_p.wiki table

Won't this break everything that assumes all `wiki` entries are wikis and try to start querying them? On 8 Feb 2018 17:00, "Bryan Davis" wrote: > Krinkle has filed a feature request in Phabricator about adding > information for the centralauth database to the meta_p.wiki table >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata vandalism dashboard (for Wikipedians)

Sorry, hit the wrong button with the previous email. I got an error when I tried this with language code 'En' (my phone wanted that) instead of 'en'. On 29 Jan 2018 22:00, "Alex Monk" wrote: > > On 29 Jan 2018 18:51, "Eran Rosenthal" wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata vandalism dashboard (for Wikipedians)

On 29 Jan 2018 18:51, "Eran Rosenthal" wrote: > Good idea, and thanks for sharing. > > Ideas for improvement: > 1. Missing reference - the list by itself is not sufficient to determine > whether some edit is bad or not, as there is no reference (Qid is not > meaningful). > It would be nice to

[MediaWiki-commits] [Gerrit] mediawiki/core[master]: EmailNotification: Add newline before minor edit text

Alex Monk has uploaded a new change for review. ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/404161 ) Change subject: EmailNotification: Add newline before minor edit text .. EmailNotification: Add newline before minor edit text Otherwise

[MediaWiki-commits] [Gerrit] operations/puppet[production]: letsencrypt: Update LE subscriber agreement URL

Alex Monk has uploaded a new change for review. ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/403326 ) Change subject: letsencrypt: Update LE subscriber agreement URL .. letsencrypt: Update LE subscriber agreement URL Changes that I&#x

[MediaWiki-commits] [Gerrit] operations/puppet[production]: Copy deployment-mx file to deployment-mx02

Alex Monk has uploaded a new change for review. ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/402899 ) Change subject: Copy deployment-mx file to deployment-mx02 .. Copy deployment-mx file to deployment-mx02 Bug: T184244 Change-Id

[MediaWiki-commits] [Gerrit] operations/puppet[production]: swift: Fix checks on drive/filesystem titles to allow for la...

Alex Monk has uploaded a new change for review. ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/402758 ) Change subject: swift: Fix checks on drive/filesystem titles to allow for labs ones .. swift: Fix checks on drive/filesystem titles to

Re: [Cloud] Changing my shell preference

I think there might just be some caching going on. I ran chsh.ldap on bastion.wmflabs.org and when I went to deployment-puppetmaster02.deployment-prep.eqiad.wmflabs, it executed the new shell. bastion still didn't. On 31 December 2017 at 16:31, Huji Lee wrote: > At login.tools.wmflabs.org the com

Re: [Cloud] Changing my shell preference

Maybe our instances are not set to pull loginShell info from LDAP? On 31 Dec 2017 16:03, "Martin Urbanec" wrote: > Just the first one, second one stays to be /bin/bash. > > Martin > > ne 31. 12. 2017 v 16:47 odesílatel Alex Monk napsal: > >> getent passwd* &g

Re: [Cloud] Changing my shell preference

getent passwd* On 31 Dec 2017 15:46, "Alex Monk" wrote: Does it change what's shown at `ldapsearch -x uid=yourusername loginShell` or `getent passed yourusername`? On 31 Dec 2017 15:41, "Martin Urbanec" wrote: > At dev.tools.wmflabs.org: command not found

Re: [Cloud] Changing my shell preference

Does it change what's shown at `ldapsearch -x uid=yourusername loginShell` or `getent passed yourusername`? On 31 Dec 2017 15:41, "Martin Urbanec" wrote: > At dev.tools.wmflabs.org: command not found. At bastion.wmflabs.org the > command exists, ask for LDAP password but do nothing for both bast

Re: [Cloud] Database queries via PHP

Maybe post your script so people can try to investigate? On 6 October 2017 at 19:42, Russell Blau wrote: > I'm trying to debug a PHP script that runs various queries against the > enwiki_p database on the new server (enwiki.analytics.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs), > and I've run into a wall. To simplify

Re: [Cloud] revision.rev_text_id is always 0?

On 2 October 2017 at 17:30, Roy Smith wrote: > I’m not seeing how to access the wikitext for a specific revision via the > API. I can get the HTML with /page/html/{title}/{revision}, but I don’t see > how to get the wikitext. Do I really need to get the HTML and then feed > that through /transfo

Re: [Cloud] revision.rev_text_id is always 0?

“the API” you mean https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page > ? > > > > On Oct 1, 2017, at 12:10 AM, Alex Monk wrote: > > The MediaWiki schema description is only valid for the underlying > database, you do not have access to that as a labs user - you just > have securi

Re: [Cloud] revision.rev_text_id is always 0?

Sorry - that was supposed to be 'show databases' and 'show tables'. On 1 October 2017 at 05:26, Alex Monk wrote: > You mean, pages like MediaWiki has but modified for use in Labs? I > don't think there's MediaWiki-style documentation on that, I'd just

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