Re: [Wikimedia-l] New feature: LoginNotify

[Gnangarra]

thats a great outcome, thanks to those that have made this happen

On 19 August 2017 at 07:19, Todd Allen  wrote:

> Great to see this, thanks!
>
> Todd
>
> On Aug 18, 2017 5:15 PM, "Danny Horn"  wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > The Community Tech team has released a new security feature this week:
> > LoginNotify, which gives you a notification when someone tries and fails
> to
> > log in to your account. This project was wish #7 on the 2016 Community
> > Wishlist Survey [1].
> >
> > Here’s how it works:
> >
> > If someone tries and fails to log in to your account from a device or an
> IP
> > address that hasn’t logged into your account recently, then you’ll get an
> > on-wiki notification at the first attempt. For a familiar device or IP
> > address, you’ll get an on-wiki notification after 5 failed logins. This
> is
> > on by default, but you can turn it off in your preferences; you can also
> > turn on email notifications.
> >
> > It’s also possible to turn on email notifications when there’s a
> successful
> > login from a new device or IP address. This is turned off by default, but
> > it might be useful for admins or other functionaries who are concerned
> that
> > their user rights could be misused. This means that you’ll get a
> > notification every time you log in from a new device or IP address.
> >
> > We want to take this opportunity to thank Brian Wolff for all his work in
> > writing the underlying extension for this feature.
> >
> > There’s more information on the feature on the Community Tech project
> page
> > on Meta, and please feel free to post questions on the talk page:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/LoginNotify
> >
> > PS: If you’re wondering what happened to the Syntax Highlighting beta
> > feature that we deployed a couple weeks ago and then had to roll back:
> > it’ll be back soon!
> >
> > [1]: 2016 Community Wishlist Survey:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New feature: LoginNotify

[Todd Allen]

Great to see this, thanks!

Todd

On Aug 18, 2017 5:15 PM, "Danny Horn"  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The Community Tech team has released a new security feature this week:
> LoginNotify, which gives you a notification when someone tries and fails to
> log in to your account. This project was wish #7 on the 2016 Community
> Wishlist Survey [1].
>
> Here’s how it works:
>
> If someone tries and fails to log in to your account from a device or an IP
> address that hasn’t logged into your account recently, then you’ll get an
> on-wiki notification at the first attempt. For a familiar device or IP
> address, you’ll get an on-wiki notification after 5 failed logins. This is
> on by default, but you can turn it off in your preferences; you can also
> turn on email notifications.
>
> It’s also possible to turn on email notifications when there’s a successful
> login from a new device or IP address. This is turned off by default, but
> it might be useful for admins or other functionaries who are concerned that
> their user rights could be misused. This means that you’ll get a
> notification every time you log in from a new device or IP address.
>
> We want to take this opportunity to thank Brian Wolff for all his work in
> writing the underlying extension for this feature.
>
> There’s more information on the feature on the Community Tech project page
> on Meta, and please feel free to post questions on the talk page:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/LoginNotify
>
> PS: If you’re wondering what happened to the Syntax Highlighting beta
> feature that we deployed a couple weeks ago and then had to roll back:
> it’ll be back soon!
>
> [1]: 2016 Community Wishlist Survey:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
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[Wikimedia-l] New feature: LoginNotify

[Danny Horn]

Hi everyone,

The Community Tech team has released a new security feature this week:
LoginNotify, which gives you a notification when someone tries and fails to
log in to your account. This project was wish #7 on the 2016 Community
Wishlist Survey [1].

Here’s how it works:

If someone tries and fails to log in to your account from a device or an IP
address that hasn’t logged into your account recently, then you’ll get an
on-wiki notification at the first attempt. For a familiar device or IP
address, you’ll get an on-wiki notification after 5 failed logins. This is
on by default, but you can turn it off in your preferences; you can also
turn on email notifications.

It’s also possible to turn on email notifications when there’s a successful
login from a new device or IP address. This is turned off by default, but
it might be useful for admins or other functionaries who are concerned that
their user rights could be misused. This means that you’ll get a
notification every time you log in from a new device or IP address.

We want to take this opportunity to thank Brian Wolff for all his work in
writing the underlying extension for this feature.

There’s more information on the feature on the Community Tech project page
on Meta, and please feel free to post questions on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/LoginNotify

PS: If you’re wondering what happened to the Syntax Highlighting beta
feature that we deployed a couple weeks ago and then had to roll back:
it’ll be back soon!

[1]: 2016 Community Wishlist Survey:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

[Joseph Seddon]

Hey Gheorghe,

I'll respond to this in my reply next week :)

Regards
Seddon

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:40 PM, Gheorghe Zugravu <
zugravu.gheor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> adding my 5c to this discussion - the video has a bit more than 3500
> views (3642 to be precise at the time i checked). I found the number of
> views a bit contrary to the number of potential visualizations of
> English WP sites.
>
> all the best,
> /gheorghe
>
>
> On 18.08.2017 19:41, Joseph Seddon wrote:
> > Hey Lodewijk,
> >
> > Thanks for the e-mail on this. I'll get back to you after the weekend
> with
> > an expansive and complete response but wanted to acknowledge your e-mail
> > and agree that there is plenty to learn from, plenty that needs
> discussion
> > as a community and that we need to find out what our readers are
> interested
> > in receiving.
> >
> > Seddon
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Lodewijk 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Wikimania is well over, and now that everyone is slowly getting home,
> I'd
> >> like to touch on a hallway discussion that was going on during
> Wikimania.
> >> This was regarding the centralnotice banners advertizing a livestream of
> >> Katherine's and Christophe's presentation of the draft direction for the
> >> 2030 strategy.
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

[Gheorghe Zugravu]

Hi to all,

adding my 5c to this discussion - the video has a bit more than 3500
views (3642 to be precise at the time i checked). I found the number of
views a bit contrary to the number of potential visualizations of
English WP sites.

all the best,
/gheorghe


On 18.08.2017 19:41, Joseph Seddon wrote:
> Hey Lodewijk,
>
> Thanks for the e-mail on this. I'll get back to you after the weekend with
> an expansive and complete response but wanted to acknowledge your e-mail
> and agree that there is plenty to learn from, plenty that needs discussion
> as a community and that we need to find out what our readers are interested
> in receiving.
>
> Seddon
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Lodewijk 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Wikimania is well over, and now that everyone is slowly getting home, I'd
>> like to touch on a hallway discussion that was going on during Wikimania.
>> This was regarding the centralnotice banners advertizing a livestream of
>> Katherine's and Christophe's presentation of the draft direction for the
>> 2030 strategy.



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

[Joseph Seddon]

Hey Lodewijk,

Thanks for the e-mail on this. I'll get back to you after the weekend with
an expansive and complete response but wanted to acknowledge your e-mail
and agree that there is plenty to learn from, plenty that needs discussion
as a community and that we need to find out what our readers are interested
in receiving.

Seddon



On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Lodewijk 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Wikimania is well over, and now that everyone is slowly getting home, I'd
> like to touch on a hallway discussion that was going on during Wikimania.
> This was regarding the centralnotice banners advertizing a livestream of
> Katherine's and Christophe's presentation of the draft direction for the
> 2030 strategy.
>
> First a few quick facts:
> The banners were on Fri 11 Aug shown for 1,5 hour in 'emergency mode' on
> all English language projects (including Commons, meta) to all logged in,
> anonimous and mobile visitors. The campaigns can be found here
>  CentralNotice&subaction=noticeDetail¬ice=WikimaniaLive>,
> here
>  CentralNotice&subaction=noticeDetail¬ice=WikimaniaLiveLoggedin>and
> here
>  CentralNotice&subaction=noticeDetail¬ice=WikimaniaLiveMobile>,
> for reference. The text in the banner was "Where will Wikipedia and
> Wikimedia be in 2030? Find out LIVE from Montreal" with a link to a youtube
> page with a stream  .
>
> I was quite taken by surprise with this, and taken aback. Here we were, the
> Wikimedia community telling all these visitors of Wikipedia and other
> projects that we are so important, that we should have them watch a
> presentation of a first draft of a direction of a strategy that still needs
> to be worked out. Not only was the text in the banner a bit misleading (I
> didn't see much crystal bowl gazing - but rather a statement of where we
> would like to go - but soit, I can overlook that), but it feels especially
> pretentious to me. Maybe this is a cultural matter, and in other cultures
> this kind of bragging (which is what it feels like to me) is normal.
>
> I could have understood an advertizement of this and other sessions to our
> logged in community members - that would actually have been a nice way of
> engaging them in an expensive conference that we would like more online
> audience to be part of. But only this session, and then all visitors of
> Wikimedia projects? No, thanks.
>
> Totally separate of the message displayed and whether we want to show it to
> this kind of large audience, I was surprised that this link was pointing to
> Youtube. This goes against our policies on Centralnotice
> , stating:
> "Wikimedia Owned - Banners must link to Wikimedia controlled domains (owned
> either by Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia affiliates or Wikimedia
> Volunteers identified to the Wikimedia Foundation)." I guess there is a
> very remote interpretation possible that the channel is owned by the
> Wikimedia Foundation, and I did not see any indication that Youtube was
> running ads on that particular channel.
>
> I was unable to locate any community discussions or consultation about
> this. Could someone at the WMF share where this was discussed prior to the
> decision, and could they explain their reasoning? I'm not looking to blame
> anyone for this - shit happens - but I would like to see some discussion on
> what we want and dont want to do in this field, so that we can actually
> learn from this exercise. I was told in (very rapid and somewhat unwilling)
> hallway discussions that this was signed off by multiple layers of
> management at the WMF, so I assume some documented reasoning and
> consultation is available.
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
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[Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

[Lodewijk]

Hi all,

Wikimania is well over, and now that everyone is slowly getting home, I'd
like to touch on a hallway discussion that was going on during Wikimania.
This was regarding the centralnotice banners advertizing a livestream of
Katherine's and Christophe's presentation of the draft direction for the
2030 strategy.

First a few quick facts:
The banners were on Fri 11 Aug shown for 1,5 hour in 'emergency mode' on
all English language projects (including Commons, meta) to all logged in,
anonimous and mobile visitors. The campaigns can be found here
,
here
and
here
,
for reference. The text in the banner was "Where will Wikipedia and
Wikimedia be in 2030? Find out LIVE from Montreal" with a link to a youtube
page with a stream  .

I was quite taken by surprise with this, and taken aback. Here we were, the
Wikimedia community telling all these visitors of Wikipedia and other
projects that we are so important, that we should have them watch a
presentation of a first draft of a direction of a strategy that still needs
to be worked out. Not only was the text in the banner a bit misleading (I
didn't see much crystal bowl gazing - but rather a statement of where we
would like to go - but soit, I can overlook that), but it feels especially
pretentious to me. Maybe this is a cultural matter, and in other cultures
this kind of bragging (which is what it feels like to me) is normal.

I could have understood an advertizement of this and other sessions to our
logged in community members - that would actually have been a nice way of
engaging them in an expensive conference that we would like more online
audience to be part of. But only this session, and then all visitors of
Wikimedia projects? No, thanks.

Totally separate of the message displayed and whether we want to show it to
this kind of large audience, I was surprised that this link was pointing to
Youtube. This goes against our policies on Centralnotice
, stating:
"Wikimedia Owned - Banners must link to Wikimedia controlled domains (owned
either by Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia affiliates or Wikimedia
Volunteers identified to the Wikimedia Foundation)." I guess there is a
very remote interpretation possible that the channel is owned by the
Wikimedia Foundation, and I did not see any indication that Youtube was
running ads on that particular channel.

I was unable to locate any community discussions or consultation about
this. Could someone at the WMF share where this was discussed prior to the
decision, and could they explain their reasoning? I'm not looking to blame
anyone for this - shit happens - but I would like to see some discussion on
what we want and dont want to do in this field, so that we can actually
learn from this exercise. I was told in (very rapid and somewhat unwilling)
hallway discussions that this was signed off by multiple layers of
management at the WMF, so I assume some documented reasoning and
consultation is available.

Best,
Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [African Wikimedians] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 August 2017)

[Lodewijk]

(in the spirit of WP:WOTTA
 ;), I'd
like to clarify that L2K most likely refers to the "Letter to Katherine"
sent on April 1 by the Wiki Indaba participants. The letter and Katherine's
response from a week ago are available on meta

)

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Felix Nartey  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am excited for being awarded the Wikipedian of the year!
>
> The amazing Wikimania video from South Africa tells me the wiki world will
> be blown by what Africa has to offer in 2018. More grease to your elbow,
> organizers of Wikimania 2018!
>
> I am also very delighted about the response of the L2K and the ripple
> effect of the L2K in the movement.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Isaac Olatunde 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am happy this week because a Wikimedian from Africa, Felix Nartey was
> > named Wikipedian of the Year 2017 in Montreal.
> >
> > What's making you happy this week?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Isaac
> >
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