I'm not sure that I agree with that assessment *of password strength
testing tools* (not humans), for a couple of reasons.
0. Weak passwords are a huge problem, and may be closely related to the
weakness that the attackers are currently using to compromise Wikimedia
accounts. As far as I know, Wik
Good point about MITM doing script injection, which I hadn't fully
considered. I'm not sure that going to HTTPS would solve everything (e.g.
that alone wouldn't prevent the origin site from reading passwords that
someone enters into the tool, and HTTPS is not foolproof) but it would
indeed be a big
Dear all,
It is my pleasure to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee,
the recognition of another Wikimedia User Group: WikiDonne [1]
As the name indicates, their area of focus is content related to women
across the different Wikimedia projects, especially in Italian. They
also lo
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce the recognition of another Wikimedia User
Group, this time based in the USA: WikiConference North America [1]
At the end of WikiConference North America 2016, celebrated last month
in San Diego, the organizing team announced the creation of a permanent
grou
How do you sign up to be a member of the group?
From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Maor
Malul
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 12:36:07 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiConference North America
Dear all,
I am pleased to anno
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 3:36 AM, John Mark Vandenberg
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak
> wrote:
> > Until we have better tech available, I want to assure you that I want to
> be
> > available, and apart from Meta, I gladly offer IRC or video
> conversations,
> > or o
Also, don’t forget that Facebook groups are used quite a bit, especially
for language communities that have emerged in the last several years.
Love it or hate it, Facebook as a way of linking together Wikimedians
across languages is a big plus (eg. projects like #100wikidays).
-Andrew
On Thu, N
WooHoo!! Glad to have you in the Wikimedia affiliate family!
Sydney Poore
User FloNight
Co-Founder
WikiWomen,
Kentucky Wikimedians,
WikiConference North America
User Groups
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Maor Malul wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It is my pleasure to ann
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Lih wrote:
> Love it or hate it, Facebook as a way of linking together Wikimedians
> across languages is a big plus (eg. projects like #100wikidays).
>
Ooh, man, you're pushing my hot button topics! I proposed
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149666 for
On 11/17/2016 04:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I would love to have a broader discussion about communication in the
projects more generally. As you know, we currently have a few mechanisms
(and please correct any mischaracterizations in the below):
As people may know, we are working on a Code
Dear Wikimedians,
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets twice a year to make
recommendations about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve
the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. This is now the
9th round of allocations made by the FDC, and we met in person
As a reminder: IRC is governed by Freenode. Channels can have their own
rules, and there are widely varying systems of internal governance for
Wikimedia IRC channels. I think it's important to note that WMF and the
Wikimedia community are guests on Freenode, and I'm uncomfortable with the
propositi
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Brion Vibber
wrote:
> 1) Eliminate IP address exposure for non-logged-in editors. Those editors
> should be either given a random, truly anonymous identifier, or required to
> create a pseudonym as a login.
>
I filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133452 for
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