Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative editing interfaces using write API (was: Re: Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords)

2009-07-24 Thread Tei
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Brianna Laugherbrianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/24 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Brianna Laugherbrianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote: All the potential problems posed are ones that Wikipedia faces every day just

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative editing interfaces using write API (was: Re: Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords)

2009-07-24 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Teioscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: I dunno, a third input box name=botname? input type=hidden name=botname / I'm talking about in the case of a possibly malicious service, and only if it's using OAuth (or whatever). Presumably if it's using OAuth the user already

Re: [Wikitech-l] Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords

2009-07-24 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Tim Starlingtstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: There's plenty of ways to attack watchlistr without fully compromising the server. The point is that a system that allowed stealing the logins of hundreds of Wikipedia users if you managed to compromise a third-party

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative editing interfaces using write API (was: Re: Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords)

2009-07-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Brianna Laugherbrianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I can imagine someone building an alternative edit interface for a subset of Wikipedia content, say a WikiProject. Then the interface can strip away all the general crud and just provide information

Re: [Wikitech-l] Speak up people

2009-07-24 Thread Remember the dot
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:05 AM, dan nessett dness...@yahoo.com wrote: So far no one has responded to Brion's comments about how parserTests should be modified. You are the customers. What do you want? My two cents: Remove the chronically failing tests and file them as bugs in bugzilla. As

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative editing interfaces using write API (was: Re: Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords)

2009-07-24 Thread Brianna Laugher
2009/7/24 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Brianna Laugherbrianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I can imagine someone building an alternative edit interface for a subset of Wikipedia content, say a WikiProject. Then the interface can strip away all the