Hi RhinosF1, It was only a single webpage that was reported as being blocked by the browser extension (although there were presumably other pages and wikis affected that went unreported in the past), thus it is probably not of great concern to our thousands of contributors who read the short Tech News newsletter. We try to keep the newsletter short and focused on important items of widespread interest, both for ease of translation and so that people read it in full each week. You can read details about what normally gets included at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors Cheers,
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:38 PM RhinosF1 Wikipedia <rhino...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks to Nick for the PR. > > As far as I understand, Easy list is some sort of ad blocking system that > multiple ad blockers use. > > From what I can see, Wiktionary got caught up in a block on URLs ending in > /ads and /advert making some pages blank. It's best to read the Tech IRC > log from 4pm onwards to get the idea. > > I'll have a look at Tech News. I'm happy to write a proper report on what > happened if necessary. Where you would suggest posting it? I can't use > Wikitech due to Account Creation block. > > Thanks, > RhinosF1 > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 19:02, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <nwil...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Easy List seems to be one of the component in various adblocker tools >> (possibly enabled by default in some or all of them?). >> https://easylist.to/ >> E.g. the "uBlock Origin" extension's settings panel which lists it, >> apparently enabled by default: >> https://i.postimg.cc/yN217Tg5/Selection-001.jpg >> I've submitted a pull-request at >> https://github.com/easylist/easylist/pull/3190 >> (and +1 to the "please include sufficient context" note :) >> >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:58 AM Andre Klapper <aklap...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 16:08 +0100, RhinosF1 Wikipedia wrote: >> > > Could someone please see if WMF wikis could be whitelisted as a >> follow up >> > > to >> > > https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3188? >> > >> > What does that mean? Whitelisting what exactly? Where? Please include >> > sufficient context to allow folks on this list to understand relevance. >> > >> > > Despite the short term distruption, Could it be placed on Tech News as >> > > users were noticing that some pages were blocked? >> > >> > See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News for "Inclusion criteria" >> > under "Get started". Obviously I have no idea what "Easy List" is. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > andre >> > -- >> > Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate >> > https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) >> Community Engagement - Documentation >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Community Engagement - Documentation Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
