And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, "closing" all the lost
PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla
reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 has a dump
from the etherpad and will be updated with more precise information.
Give a look at the bugzilla reports!
Thanks to all the participants: Andre Klapper, Anomie, Azitrex, bawolff,
Helder, John Vandenberg, Kelson, Nemo, Raymond, Reedy, Rupert, saper,
Steinsplitter, csteipp, ebraminio, jem, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
> We start in 30 min from now :)
>
> Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
>>
>> **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode
>> IRC.[2]
>>
>> We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
>> in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
>> new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
>> 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
>> tracker;[4]
>> 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
>> knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
>> something back.
>> We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
>>
>> This information and more can be found here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
>>
>> For more information on triaging in general, check out
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
>>
>> I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
>> talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
>> Sorry for the crossposting,
>> Nemo
>>
>> [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
>> [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
>> [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
>> [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
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A number of security issues in MediaWiki extensions have been fixed.
Users of these extensions should update to the latest version.
* CentralAuth: Internal review found multiple issues that have been resolved:
** (bug 70469) Special:MergeAccount failed to validate the anti-csrf
token in its forms when performing actions.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70469>
** (bug 70468) The internal function to attach multiple local wiki
accounts into a single, global account did not re-check that the
requesting user owned the "home wiki" for that username, but assumed
that user did own this account. This could allow a user to add their
local account edits to a global account that they didn't own.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70468>
** (bug 71749) Incomplete fix for bug 70468. The fix wasn't applied to
the new feature where accounts were globalized automatically on login.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71749>
** (bug 70620) When globally renaming a user, the antispoof table,
which prevents similar looking names from being created, weren't
updated. This potentially allowed another user to register an account
with a name that looked identical to the username of a user who had
been globally renamed.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70620>
* MobileFrontend: (bug 70009) Sherif Mansour discovered that POST
parameters were being added to links generated by MobileFrontend,
which could reveal the user's password after login.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70009>
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I want to apply Foss OPW Round 9 for the "Extensive and robust
localisation file format coverage" project.
For that I have played with gerrit and installed mediawiki. I have
also gone through th [0] link as suggested by the community members on
IRC.
Now I am stuck on how to proceed further. The bugs are very well
mentioned but not getting where to see its code i.e the location of
the respective code.
For example :- Bugzilla 31331 is mentioned by the mentors for my
project but I am not getting how can I go through its code.
Please assist me in it or suggest to some easy bug to start with.
--
Alisha Jain
blog - jainalisha14.wordpress.com
"Your Failure does not define you, but your determination does."
Hello all,
It is my great pleasure to announce that Bartosz Dziewoński[0] has joined
the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering.
Bartosz has worked as a volunteer developer for several years, specialising
in front-end improvements to skins and core functionality, helping gadget
authors, skin developers and extension maintainers alike, as well as being
an active member of the Polish Wikipedia community. Bartosz is currently a
student in Poland, studying Computer Science at the AGH University of
Science and Technology in Kraków[1].
Bartosz will be working as part of the Editing team[2] to continue our work
extending the various editing tools, from WikiEditor and Poem to
VisualEditor and Cite, and on improving the front-end infrastructure for
skins, extensions and gadgets, as well as fixes to and support for
MediaWiki core and other extensions as needed.
Please join me in welcoming Bartosz to the Wikimedia Foundation.
[0]: [[mw:User:Matma_Rex <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Matma_Rex>]],
now also [[mw:User:Bartosz_Dziewoński_(WMF)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bartosz_Dziewo%C5%84ski_(WMF)>]]
[1]: [[en:AGH University of Science and Technology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGH_University_of_Science_and_Technology>]]
[2]: [[mw:Editing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing>]]
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
[Second one today!]
I am delighted to announce that Moriel Schottlender [0] has converted to
full time staff member status as a Software Engineer in Features
Engineering, as of 1 October.
Moriel has been working with us, initially as a GSoC 2013 student [1] and
then as a student contractor in the Editing Team since last Summer. She has
significantly improved editing tools, including providing much of the media
editing and language mark-up support in VisualEditor, and creating and
improving the GUI editor for TemplateData. As a native Hebrew speaker, her
RTL expertise has been invaluable in helping the team find issues and
improve experience for our.
Moriel will continue working as part of the Editing Team [2] to help take
forward our work of extending the various editing tools to make
contributions easy for all our users. She will be moving to San Francisco
from New York City where she is currently based.
Some details from Moriel herself:
I am originally from Israel, I've spent the last 9 years living in New York
City, earning a bachelors degree in Physics and just now graduated with a
Masters in Computer Science. I've worked for airline security and then as
the internet applications project manager in the PR office of the Israeli
Consulate in New York, both of which are pretty much the polar opposite to
openness and open source, so if I suddenly revert to asking people to pack
their own bags or to refer to the diplomat for official answers, feel free
to slap me back to a better reality.
I was a student for so long that the term "hobbies" is almost foreign. Is
that what you do when you don't have homework and exams?
Science - I do love to talk about, discuss, think about and demonstrate
Physics and science in general, and I even have a science outreach website
with some do-it-yourself science experiment videos and articles. If there's
a microwave oven in the office, I can show everyone how to calculate the
speed of light with a chocolate bar.
Fiction writing - I love writing (fiction, not school essays) and when I do
have some time I work on a science-fiction novella, though with the
progress I'm making, it might have to be adjusted to holosuite emitters by
the time it is done. (Trekkie reference!)
Soundtrack music - I also love Broadway shows and listening to soundtracks
in general. The Editing Team can testify how much I like Frozen and its
songs, repeatedly.
Oh, and I'm really excited to move to San Francisco and join everyone at
the office!
Please join me in congratulating Moriel.
[0]: [[mw:User:MSchottlender-WMF
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MSchottlender-WMF>]]
[1]: [[mw:Summer of Code 2013
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013>]]
[2]: [[mw:Editing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing>]]
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
Since it hasn't been done yet, We'll be branching the extensions for
REL1_24 next Friday, Oct 10.
We're announcing this now because we will be publishing a list of
extensions with their proposed branch point later today (Saturday,
Oct 4). This is to avoid the problems we had last time and to allow
extension developers to select a better branch point if they so desire.
Thanks,
Mark and Markus.
--
Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
717-271-1084
Today we celebrate an important milestone in the Phabricator project:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org is now open to all Wikimedia users!
Special thanks go to @chasemp and @mmodell, who lead us to this milestone
with their Phabricator expertise.
Please get your account and let us know if you find any problems.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account
explains how to register and how to claim your fab activity today (and your
RT and Bugzilla activity in the future).
You are invited to participate in existing projects. Creation of new
projects is closed until the completion of the Bugzilla migration -- see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Requesting_a_new_project
NEXT STEPS
We will set up a separate Phabricator instance containing a sample of
Bugzilla reports imported automatically, for your delight and criticism.
After this instance is announced, we will leave at least one week for
community feedback before deciding the next steps.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Since Wikimania, the MediaWiki Architecture Committee has been meeting
weekly to discuss individual RFCs, and also the RFC process and the
future of the Architecture Committee. The notes from the last meeting
are now available online:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee
We are working on expanding the Architecture Committee beyond the
initial three members (Brion Vibber, Mark Bergsma and myself) -- an
announcement on this will come soon. We don't yet have a proper
process for adding and removing members from the committee, but in the
long term, we expect that the committee membership will be chosen by a
process operated at arms length from WMF management.
One of the things we are doing is RFC triage, and deciding the agenda
for the weekly RFC meetings. We would very much like to have
suggestions of RFCs to consider. You can send your suggestions to this
thread, or directly to any committee member.
-- Tim Starling
Hi everyone,
As our new Vice President of Engineering, Damon Sicore, just announced in
his longer email to Wikimedia-l he will be having his first IRC Office
hours on Thursday, October 9th, at 20:00 UTC (13:00 PDT). This hour long
office hour is a chance to meet the new VPE and ask your burning questions.
The office hour will be held in #Wikimedia-office on the Freenode network.
You can find information on how to get online, including a link to a
webchat option if you don't have an IRC client, on the meta office hours
page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate>.
You can also find a time converter for the start of the hour at
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&d…
. Like most of our public office hours this one will be publicly logged and
should be posted on the meta office hour page shortly after it's conclusion.
If you want to know you more about Damon you can read the Wikimedia Blog
announcement
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/29/damon-sicore-joins-wmf-as-vice-presid…>
or check out his personal blog <http://damon.sicore.com>.
James
[[cross posted on wikitech-l and wikimedia-l]]
James Alexander
Legal and Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur