Hi everyone,
Because a number of people are planning to take time off for the
holidays, I'd like to postpone the regular release cycle for 2 weeks,
with 1.21wmf7 being a slightly longer window than normal, and 1.21wmf8
stretched out a little bit as well to accommodate MLK day (January
21).
Here's what things will look like in the revised schedule:
1.21wmf7:
* Wednesday, January 2 (test, test2, mediawiki.org, wikidata.org)
* Monday, January 7 (non-Wikipedia)
* Wednesday, January 9 (English Wikipedia)
* Monday, January 11 (other Wikipedia)
1.21wmf8
* Wednesday, January 16 (test, test2, mediawiki.org, wikidata.org)
* Wednesday, January 23 (non-Wikipedia)
* Monday, January 28 (English Wikipedia)
* Wednesday, January 30 (other Wikipedia)
We would then resume the normal cadence Monday, February 4 when we
deploy 1.21wmf9.
The nice thing about doing things this way is that the cycle stretches
out the time that 1.21wmf7 and 1.21wmf8 sit on test2 over the normal
cycle, which gives us a little more time to notice problems.
Any objections? I don't think there's room to keep the standard
cycle, but there's plenty of tweaking around the edges we can make.
Rob
I've been digging around in our cookie jar, as part of my work with
Fundraising, and I have a few questions about the cookies we set on
anonymous users.
First, I am deeply impressed with the care we have taken to respond to
the community's privacy concerns, and after first-hand experience
negotiating with our lawyers to implement an additional cookie, I think
that WMF deserves its place as a model to the rest of the internet. I
would like to help clean up or at least explain the few oversights I
identify below, so that we can be fully confident that we are doing
everything we can to prevent abuse of our visitors' privacy.
1) Anonymous users are given a 1-year cookie which uniquely identifies
them. After logging out and clearing all cookies from my browser, I
visited en.wikipedia.org and received this cookie. Why would an
anonymous user be given an identifying token?
> mediaWiki.user.id=oDNtHcMSeGMSZyRehhuC7ypQRuPEGk3a; expires=Wed, 18
> Dec 2013 18:25:38 GMT; path=/; domain=en.wikipedia.org
2) Anonymous users are enrolled in clicktracking. I was surprised
because the extension page at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ClickTracking specifies that it
affects "users", and I think it should very explicitly state that it
affects "logged-in users and anonymous visitors" if that is really the
intention.
> clicktracking-session=0orJJTU79otWR6x1m8ykUAyasVpZJBn2x; path=/;
> domain=en.wikipedia.org
3) Registered user's cookies are not cleared at logout. This seems like
a pretty basic fix.
> enwikiUserName=Adamw; expires=Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:43:51 GMT; path=/;
> domain=en.wikipedia.org; Secure; HttpOnly
Ideally, an anonymous user, whether or not they have ever been logged in
as a registered user, will not transmit any personally identifying
information in their requests. All three of these cookies violate that
principle. I have not found any public debate on the issue, hopefully
others are interested in this topic.
Regards,
Adam Wight
fyi
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Help creating a MediaWiki presentation (or two)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:25:50 -0800
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: design(a)lists.wikimedia.org
On 12/13/2012 05:59 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm about to submit a couple of proposals for presentations at FOSDEM
Done:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_Lightning_-_Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_DevRoom_-_Qgil
> This is why I come
> here looking for a volunteer teammate full of MediaWiki/Wikimedia love
> and with some free time in the following weeks.
Julien Dorra replied. Thank you! After a couple of email we are moving
the discussion (for now) to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_DevRoom_-_Qgil
There we are starting the discussion about the basic principles for the
slides, the creation of a reusable template and how to make slides easy
to update and localize.
Your input and help are welcome!
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Following the process for requesting the creation of a MediaWiki group,
here is a proposal for MediaWiki Group Browser testing
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Browser_testing
"This group welcomes anyone interested in the automated browser testing
project of WMF. Technical skills and programming experience are NOT
required..."
Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki page.
Thank you!
PS: see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals
Hello,
For a few hours, the Jenkins job mediawiki-core-install-sqlite has
simply disappeared. I must have made a mistake this afternoon that
deleted it. The end result is that changes that have been voted CR+2
would not complete the unit tests and were not merged by Jenkins.
I have recreated the missing job and it is working again.
If you want to resubmit a change, simply vote CR+2 on it and Jenkins wil
rerun the tests for you.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso
(x-posted on Wikimedia-l)
Hi all,
This Thursday at 18:00 UTC (10 a.m. PST) the mobile development, design,
and product team will be hosting IRC office hours. In addition to general
introductions and Q&A, we'd like to spend some time talking about our
current work – bringing contributory features like editing and image
uploads to mobile devices. Please see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hoursformo…
details.
Thanks, and hope to see you in #wikimedia-office on Thursday!
--
Maryana Pinchuk
Associate Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Hello, here's from a Gerrit newbie: I get the following error message when running 'git review' on some changes, after following the instructions at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workflow#How_to_submit_a_patch line by line.I have previously submitted a change (once) without any errors. What could be wrong? Where do I start looking?
: 2012-12-16 14:33:21.901478 Running: git push gerrit HEAD:refs/publish/master/addrealname: Permission denied (publickey).: fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
I have coped the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the SSH Public Keys tab of my settings at gerrit.wikimedia.org
Thanks for any hints you may be able to give me!/Leo
_______________Leonard Wallentinleo_wallentin@hotmail.com@leo_wallentin+46 (0) 735 - 933 543
Congrats! This is a huge deal. :-)
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate