[Wikitech-ambassadors] [BREAKING CHANGE] Legacy wikibits will no longer loaded by default on Wikimedia wikis and MediaWiki 1.27

2016-03-25 Thread Krinkle
TL;DR: * Review site scripts to verify that no wikibits methods[1] are used. * If you find usage of wikibits, refactor the code to use newer methods instead, or add a dependency on the 'mediawiki.legacy.wikibits' module. Hi all, The deprecation and eventual removal of the legacy "wikibits

[Wikitech-ambassadors] HTTPS and Wikimedia groups

2016-03-25 Thread David Abián
Hi, Over the last years, the Wikimedia Foundation has tried to solve, on a technical level, some of the most important problems concerning censorship, surveillance and man-in-the-middle attacks, among others. Nowadays, they force HTTPS connections to the Wikimedia projects. However, without invol