Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

First point for security. What should be secure is the software AND the entity using it. In case there is a third entity managing the data, there is an additional level of insecurity to take care. When people "donate" you your data, they don't take care what is the software behind but who manage

Re: [Wikimedia-l] #forQuestioningUCoC : Online_edit-a-thon_Tech_February_2021#Conclusion

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 01:34, Benjamin Lees wrote: > Željko, I am really having trouble understanding what point you are making > or why this is appropriate for this list. Would you be able to clarify? > Sure. It is illustration of how complicated is to be productive and bring in new people to W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] #forQuestioningUCoC : Online_edit-a-thon_Tech_February_2021#Conclusion

Željko, I am really having trouble understanding what point you are making or why this is appropriate for this list. Would you be able to clarify? On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 6:13 PM Željko Blaće wrote: > Dear ALL - > Especially #forQuestioningUCoC this is what working on Wikipedia is in > 2021 even t

[Wikimedia-l] #forQuestioningUCoC : Online_edit-a-thon_Tech_February_2021#Conclusion

Dear ALL - Especially #forQuestioningUCoC this is what working on Wikipedia is in 2021 even to a tech savy folks: "While it was an overall positive experience, we also had hiccups including getting Zoom bombed by racist trolls, and dealing with immediate deletions of articles for various reasons.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

+1 And if anyone has this document in their hands, please notify us here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275574 On Tue, 2021-02-23 at 08:36 +, Fæ wrote: > Could someone provide a link to the discussed security review of > LimeSurvey? I've been unable to find it. > ... > Thanks, > Fae --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing VideoCutTool version 0.4

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 4:55 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Great news! I have tried today I couldn't upload a file, does it take some > time to upload or is there a queue? > Hi Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga! The videos which are present in the devices have to get upl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing VideoCutTool version 0.4

Great news! I have tried today I couldn't upload a file, does it take some time to upload or is there a queue? Thanks! From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Gopa Vasanth Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 8:06 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List ; Wikimedia developers Cc: Pr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Introducing VideoCutTool version 0.4

That is awesome! (cool dark mode btw.) Thanks for sharing :) On 02/23 00:36, Gopa Vasanth wrote: > Hello folks! > > We are excited to announce the release of version 0.4 of VideoCutTool > [1]. > VideoCutTool helps users to edit videos in commons and also conve

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

Could someone provide a link to the discussed security review of LimeSurvey? I've been unable to find it. Considering that the currently open UCoC survey using Google Forms has quoted WMF terms and conditions, which imply a special agreement with Google, was there a security review for this soluti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

Agree about the privacy and security worries shared by some in the list. >From a software maintenance pov, developing a new tool is sometimes easier but maintaining and keeping up with the ever-changing internet standards (and new vulnerabilities and security changes) is hard. That said, a movemen