[Engineering] Translations on hold until further notice

Thu Sep 27 23:35:49 UTC 2018

To be clear, only MediaWiki core and extensions are put on hold -- not any
other users of translatewiki, including WMF-built applications?

~Leon

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:21 PM John Bennett <jbennett at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This update is to add some additional information we are now able to share
> in regard to why translation updates are on hold.
>
> The Security team and others at the Wikimedia Foundation are engaged in a
> security event involving our translation services.  No Wikimedia users or
> their data are currently affected. We made the decision to temporarily
> disable translation updates until suitable countermeasures can be applied
> and at this point reinstatement of translation updates is to be determined.
> At the resolution of this event the Security team will publish a summary
> blog post (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/13/)
> including additional details as appropriate.
>
> Thank you for your patience and understanding while we work to better
> protect the community.
>
> John Bennett
>
> Director of Security, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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