[Wikitech-l] News about TLS 1.3

2018-03-06 Thread Pine W
I'm no expert on TLS 1.3, but I thought that other folks on Wikitech-l might be interested in the industry news about the subject. The relevant WMF Phabricator task is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170567. Articles: * "An Overview of TLS 1.3 – Faster and More Secure": https://kinsta.com/blog

[Wikitech-l] Improvements to Page Previews

2018-03-06 Thread Chris Koerner
Hello, We wanted to take a moment to update you all about a reader-focused feature called Page Previews, which has also been popular as a Beta Feature among editors. [0] [1] The Readers web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on a few things we’d like to share. [2] Most recently we:

Re: [Wikitech-l] You can now translate Phabricator to your language

2018-03-06 Thread Mukunda Modell
Indeed, good work everyone! Especially big thank you to Niklas, as well as all of the translators who have already been busy translating strings. I should also thank Quim Gil for sponsoring the upstream work, and Evan Priestley (Phacility founder) for building the shims that connect Phabricator's

[Wikitech-l] Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2018-03-06 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best cont

[Wikitech-l] Installing the MediaWiki Math extension is easier now

2018-03-06 Thread Physikerwelt
In the past, administrators of MediaWiki installations faced a challenging installation procedure when they tried to enable rendering of mathematical formulae. As of February 22, no configuration or custom installation is required with the latest versions of MediaWiki core and the Math extension, i