On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Martijn Hoekstra
martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote:
Does Jake have any mechanism in mind to prevent abuse? Is there any
possible mechanism available to prevent abuse?
Preventing abuse is the wrong goal. There is plenty of abuse even
with all the privacy smashing
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Jasper Deng jas...@jasperswebsite.com wrote:
This question is analogous to the question of open proxies. The answer has
universally been that the costs (abuse) are just too high.
No, it's not analogous to just permitting open proxies as no one in
this thread is
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was talking with Tom Lowenthal, who is a tor developer. He was trying to
convince Tilman and I that IP's were just a form of collateral that we
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazel...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Hi,
Just to inform you about the NOW running live streams from Wikimania about
MediaWiki.
See http://toolserver.org/~reedy/wikimania2010/jazzhall.html
Runs until 13.00 CEST TODAY/NOW!
Shame. This requires some
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am hugely grateful that we have reliable streaming this year, thanks
to a lot of volunteer effort. Perhaps we can defer the ideological
nitpicking and just share that appreciation. I would be grateful even
if it required
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
look at the revision history. However, this should be reasonably rare, and
the diff remains in the edit history to be rescued, and can be reapplied if
need be. A competing problem is that disabling the reject
Is anyone working on fixing the broken output from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ValidationStatistics ?
I brought this up on IRC a week-ish ago and there was some speculation
as to the cause but it wasn't clear to me if anyone was working on
fixing it.
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
look at the revision history. However, this should be reasonably
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Moreover, you've selectively linked one of several discussions — when
in others it was made quite clear that many people (myself included,
of course) consider a super-rollback undo everything pending button
Imagine an article with many revisions and pending changes enabled:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G...
A is an approved edit. B,C,D,E,F,G are all pending edits.
B is horrible vandalism that the subsequent edits did not fix.
You are a reviewer, you go to review page by clicking a pending review
link. On
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Imagine an article with many revisions and pending changes enabled:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G...
[snip]
I don't know how to fix this. We could remove the reject button to
make it more clear that you use the normal editing
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Consider the following edit sequence:
A, B, C, D, E
A is a previously approved version. B, and D are all excellent edits.
C and E
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm preparing a patch against FlaggedRevs which includes changes that Howie
and I worked on in preparation for the launch of its deployment onto
en.wikipedia.org . We started first by creating a style guide
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
I have created a poster suitable for distribution to journalists
http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org:8080/~gmaxwell/flagged_protection.png
I have revised the graphic based on input from Andrew Gray and others.
http
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote:
I suppose in this case, there might be a simpler debate about which is a
better word: sighted, checked or accepted, since I think we actually
have the same goal here (we don't want to convey anything other than
someone other
This is pretty far off topic, but letting fud sit around is never a good idea.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Hay (Husky) hus...@gmail.com wrote:
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377
Apparently the codec itself isn't as good as H264, and patent problems
are still likely. It's better than
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a few comments on the Wikimedia blog saying they can't access
en:wp any more using their BlackBerry. Though we tried it here on an
8900 and it works. Any other reports?
Punching in http://en.wikipedia.org/ as I
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
So how do I tell what's wrong? I have a laptop
that is less than half a year old, a clean
Ubuntu Linux 9.10 install and the included
Firefox 3.5.8 browser. This should work, but
these two videos never play more than two
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote:
In any case, video and audio are in the same boat as Jpeg/png, +/-
some differences in software maturity. There aren't any known or
expected malware vectors for them.
Agreed. But seems possible to generate streams of video
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Chris Lewis yecheondigi...@yahoo.com wrote:
I hope I am emailing this to the right group. My concern was about mediawiki
and it's limitations, as well as it's outdated methods. As someone wo runs a
wiki, I've gone through a lot of frustrations.
If Wordpress
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
That sounds like it needs a one-line fix in
OggHandler::normaliseParams(), not 50 lines of code and a new decoder.
Do you have a test file or a bug report or something?
Just switching the thumbnailer should be
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Looks like this change removed both the Oggthumb support as well as
the code that handles the cases where ffmpeg fails.
The usual problem with deploying new solutions for equivalent tasks
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:51 AM, tstarl...@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/62223
Revision: 62223
Author: tstarling
Date: 2010-02-10 05:51:56 + (Wed, 10 Feb 2010)
Log Message:
---
* In preparation for deployment, revert the
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:39 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
This is clever-ish:
http://www.atoker.com/blog/2010/02/04/html5-theora-video-codec-for-silverlight/
He says there that this will Just Work
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:58 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 February 2010 21:53, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, Cortado works in more places but there is no reason that BOTH
can't be used, extending support to places with silverlight but
without Java
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
Is there any reason not to have a flatted structure some-
where on the toolserver (or, in the long run, in MediaWiki)?
A quick look at recentchanges for dewp shows about
22000 changes per month, about one every two
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote:
I was thinking about that the other day, I understand why MediaWiki
don't follow that route.
Mediawiki often runs in enviroments where users have no shell access,
no ability to install extensions, etc.
There is some C++ stuff
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 February 2010 15:43, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
It's not just the clutter, though, it's the effort of maintaining
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Schneelocke schneelo...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe we should do the same - introduce bugs that will cause subtle
breakages on browsers we'd rather not go out of our way to
specifically support any longer, and see if anyone'll actually
complain. :)
People are really
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:34 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Even then, there is
http://www.askvg.com/download-mozilla-firefox-30-portable-edition-no-installation-needed/
Excuse me? please read the earlier posts in this thread.
I am talking about IE for Mac Classic.
iCab
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Suggestion :
* log search and SHA1 IP hash (anonymous!)
*Any* mapping of the IP is not anonymous. Please see the AOL search
results where unique IDs were connected between searches to disclose
information.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/1/14 Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
* log search and SHA1 IP hash (anonymous!)
There are only 2 billion unique addresses
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is what I would suggest disclosing:
#start_datetime end_datetime hits search_string
2010-01-01-0:0:4 2010-01-13-23-59-50 39284 naked people
2010-01-01-0:0:4 2010-01-13-23-59-50 23950 hot grits
...
2010-01-01-0:0
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Conrad Irwin
conrad.ir...@googlemail.com wrote:
Wiktionary is case-sensitive and so case-folding there may not be
appropriate; I personally would be interested in seeing these logs
before even the NFC normalizers get to them (given a lack of any other
source
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
Sampled search logs are unlikely to reveal them though, since what they
are repeating are the non-keywords, not the full query.
Sampling is fine, but aggregated logs aren't likely to… thats the
primary reason for reporting
Today Wikimedia's world-wide five-minute-average transmission rate
crossed 10gbit/sec for the first time ever, as far as I know. This
peak rate was achieved while serving roughly 91,725 requests per
second.
This fantastic news is almost coincident with Wikipedia's 9th
anniversary on January 15th.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Mike.lifeguard
mike.lifegu...@gmail.com wrote:
Microsoft has informed us with an email to OTRS (#201000039819) that
wikimedia.org (and presumably our other domains) will be
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Robert Stojnic rainma...@gmail.com wrote:
So we got some new search servers (thanks MarkRob) and I have deployed
them today. As a consequence, the search limit is now re-raised to 500
and interwiki search is back on all wikis. I would still however like to
keep
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
On 01/10/2010 06:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
If anyone feels adventurous:
http://www.joachims.org/publications/joachims_02c.pdf
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/tj/svm_light/svm_rank.html
Ooh, that looks fun
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jamie Morken jmor...@shaw.ca wrote:
I am not sure about the cost of the bandwidth, but the wikipedia image dumps
are no longer available on the wikipedia dump anyway. I am
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:56 PM, John Doe phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
or a simpler method would be to use a javascript tool like I use which
was created by lupin called popups which can actually get the redirect
target page show the first picture and first paragraph on mouse hover
You have
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Jared Williams
jared.willia...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Can distribute them across multiple domain names,
thereby bypassing the browser/HTTP limits.
Something along the lines of
'c'.(crc32($title) 3).'.en.wikipedia.org'
Would atleast attempt to download upto 4
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Although his actions were IMO dickish, he has some point: is there any
reason to allow .exe links on WMF sites? Is there a clean method to
disable them? Is this a bad idea for any reason? What should default
settings be in
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:03 AM, K. Peacheyp858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Seems my concern was moot in any case... Every time I loaded it I've
only seen trashed pages like this:
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:17 PM, K. Peacheyp858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Platonidesplatoni...@gmail.com wrote:
You know, when you point to a broken page, people^W wikipedians tend to
do absurd things like fixing them :)
I was going to fix some up, but import is
Greetings.
Can anyone provide a status update regarding flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org ?
In the future perhaps it would be better to import simple english
Wikipedia for enwp testing: The lack of templates makes the site look
extensively vandalized already. I'm guessing that an alternative
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Dmitriy Sintsovques...@rambler.ru wrote:
Some local coder told me that GIT is slower and consumes much more RAM
on some operations than SVN.
I can't confirm that, though, because I never used GIT and still rarely
use SVN. But, be warned.
I laughed at this...
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Marco
Schusterma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote:
And so to the disk. If the disk or the controller sucks or is simply old
(not everyone has shiny new hardware), you're also damn slow. What should
also not be underestimated is the diskspace demand of a GIT repo
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:16 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Why have each user jump through such hoops, and still leave this door
open to the the bad guys whoever they are.
[snip]
If you wish to have a productive discussion with people you'll be most
successful if you try to understand and
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:20 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
All I know is I don't know of any other examples of security through
obscurity on mailing lists. Wasn't Jimbo inventing a new search engine?
I don't know though... can't search for the announcement.
Download the gzipped mbox files
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Hk knghk@web.de wrote:
New test results were added at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SVG_benchmarks
This looks even better than my first attempt. Nonetheless, it is clear
that batikd is not ready to use but needs to be worked on.
I'm not sure where the
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM, d...@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/54611
Revision: 54611
Author: dale
Date: 2009-08-07 21:29:26 + (Fri, 07 Aug 2009)
Log Message:
---
added a explicit keyframeInterval per gmaxwell's mention
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
So I committed ~basic~ derivate code support for oggHandler in r54550
(more solid support on the way)
Based input from the w...@home thread; here are updated target
qualities expressed via the firefogg api to
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
So I committed ~basic~ derivate code support for oggHandler in r54550
(more solid support on the way)
Based input from the w...@home thread; here
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 8/3/09 6:28 PM, Remember the dot wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Once we have a cleaner interface for hitting the general pages (without
the 'secure.wikimedia.org' crappy
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Also will hack in adding derivatives to the job queue where oggHandler
is embed in a wiki-article at a substantial lower resolution than the
source version. Will have it send the high res version until the
derivative is
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ilmari Karonennos...@vyznev.net wrote:
[snip]
It seems to me that delivering *static* thumbnails of GIF images, either
in GIF or PNG format, would be a considerable improvement over the
current situation. And indeed, the code to do that seems to be already
in
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
two quick points.
1) you don't have to re-upload the whole video just the sha1 or some
sort of hash of the assigned chunk.
But each re-encoder must download the source material.
I agree that uploads aren't much of
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
true... people will never upload to site without instant gratification (
cough youtube cough ) ...
Hm? I just tried uploading to youtube and there was a video up right
away. Other sizes followed within a minute or two.
At
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Brianbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Once you factor in the ratio of video to non-video content
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Brianbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
A reasonable estimate would require knowledge of how much free video can be
automatically acquired, it's metadata automatically parsed and then
automatically uploaded to commons. I am aware of some massive archives of
free
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Brianbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
There are always tradeoffs. If I understand w...@home correctly it is also
intended to be run @foundation. It works just as well for distributing
transcoding over the foundation cluster as it does for distributing it to
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Brianna
Laugherbrianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
I can imagine someone building an alternative edit interface for a
subset of Wikipedia content, say a WikiProject. Then the interface can
strip away all the general crud and just provide information
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, dan nessettdness...@yahoo.com wrote:
[snip]
On the other hand, if there were regression tests for the main code and for
the most important extensions, I could make the change, run the regression
tests and see if any break. If some do, I could focus my
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Aryeh
Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, in this case we're not even talking about something that would
go into HTML 5, necessarily, it's being developed by only Mozilla
right now. If more important Wikimedia people than I state agreement
with
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:18 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Mmm. So solving this properly would require solving many of the
various consolidated/multiple watchlist bugs in MediaWiki itself,
then.
Hm? No. Solving *this* involves having a sysadmin determine the source
of IP of the
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Domas Mituzasmidom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you elaborate on what template and why changing a single
template should have that large an effect?
tomorrow =)
I'm guessing something that added some categories to some very widely
used infobox or licensing
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/9 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com:
I advocate a simply: You can [[install X]] to get native support. [[More
info]]
What do we do for iPhone users? They do not have Theora support
because Apple has actively decided
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:20 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/9 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com:
Assuming that native support really is noticeably better. Maybe we
could only suggest it if we detect that the playback is stuttering, or
suggest it more prominently if
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:05 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/7 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com:
But really -- have there been *any* confirmed incidents of MITMing an
Internet connection in, say, the past decade? Real malicious attacks
in the wild, not
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The current language is For best video playback experience we recommend
_Firefox 3.5_ ... but I am open to adjustments.
I'd drop the word experience. It's superfluous marketing speak.
So the notice chain I'm planning on
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Aryeh
Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Marco
Schusterma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote:
We should not recommend Chrome - as good as it is, but it has serious
privacy problems.
Opera is not Open Source, so I think we'd
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/8 j...@v2v.cc:
David Gerard wrote:
You are using Internet Explorer. Install the Ogg codecs _here_ for a
greatly improved Wikimedia experience.
Internet Explorer does not support the video tag, installing Ogg
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:12 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/8 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Uh, it's not a good option for Wikimedia video.
With XiphQT, why not? Maybe not ideal, but surely
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Aryeh
Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
* We could support video/audio on conformant user agents without
the use of JavaScript. There's no reason we should need JS for
Firefox 3.5, Chrome 3, etc.
Of course, that could be done without switching
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
I don't really have apple machine handy to test quality of user
experience in OSX safari with xiph-qt. But if that is on-par with
Firefox native support we should probably link to the component install
instructions
regex could significantly expand this time taken, leading to
a denial of service.
I seem to recall Gregory Maxwell describing a setup that made this
feasible, given the appropriate amount of dedicated hardware. It was
run with the entire database in memory; it only permitted real
regular
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Dmitriy Sintsovques...@rambler.ru wrote:
XSLT itself is a way too much locked down - even simple things like
substrings manipulation and loops aren't so easy to perform. Well, maybe
I am too stupid for XSLT but from my experience bringing tag syntax in
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:50 AM, William Allen
Simpsonwilliam.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
Javascript, OMG don't go there.
Don't be so quick to dismiss Javscript. If we were making a scorecard
it would likely meet most of the checkboxes:
* Available of reliable battle tested sandboxes (and
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, William Allen
Simpsonwilliam.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
* Doesn't inflate the number of languages used in the operation of the site
This is the important checkbox, as far as integration with the project (my
first criterion), but is the server side code
Shutting Down XSS with Content Security Policy
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/06/19/shutting-down-xss-with-content-security-policy/
I'm usually the first to complain about applying technical solutions
to problems which are not fundamentally technical... but this looks
like it would be
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Aryeh
Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
I think this would be reasonable to consider implementing as soon we
have a significant number of users using it. It isn't a good idea to
make CSP policies that won't actually be effective immediately for a
lot
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Strainustrain...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've heard that wikipedia will be among the first content providers to
support the video and audio tags in html5. I'm trying to put up a
presentation about the subject for a FF3.5 release party and I would
like to find
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gerard
Meijssengerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
At some stage Wikipedia was this thing that everybody can edit... I can not
and will not edit this shit so what do you expect from the average Joe ??
I can not (effectively) contribute to
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I would quickly add that the script-loader / new-upload branch also
supports minify along with associating unique id's grouping gziping.
So all your mediaWiki page includes are tied to their version numbers
and can be
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Robert Rohderaro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Tim Starlingtstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Peter Gervai wrote:
Is there a possibility to write a code which process raw squid data?
Who do I have to bribe? :-/
Yes it's possible. You just
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Keeping well-meaning admins from putting Google web bugs in the
JavaScript is a game of whack-a-mole.
Are there any technical workarounds feasible? If not blocking the
loading of external sites entirely (I understand hu:wp
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:53 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I understand the problem with stats before was that the stats server
would melt under the load. Leon's old wikistats page sampled 1:1000.
The current stats (on dammit.lt and served up nicely on
http://stats.grok.se) are
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Mike.lifeguard
mikelifegu...@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 15:34 +0100, David Gerard wrote:
Then external site loading can be blocked.
Why do we need to block loading from all external sites? If there are
specific problematic ones (like google
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Bart banati...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know about those flagged revisions. After a while, it would
basically mean that every edit and page view would be doubled. For most
[snip]
Sorry to be curt, but why do people who have a weak understanding of
the
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
But if you are running parallel connections to avoid slowdowns you're
just attempting to cheat TCP congestion control and get an unfair
share of the available bandwidth. That kind of selfish behaviour
fuels non
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
I seem to remember there being a discussion about the
torrenting issue before. In short: there's never been any
official torrents, and the unofficial ones never got really
popular.
Torrent isn't a very good transfer method
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Stig Meireles Johansen
sti...@gmail.com wrote:
But some ISP's throttle TCP-connections (either by design or by simple
oversubscription and random packet drops), so many small connections *can*
yield a better result for the end user. And if you are so unlucky as
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Sergey Chernyshev
sergey.chernys...@gmail.com wrote:
Domas,
In this particular case, template will just contain an SMW query to get all
representatives.
[snip]
How does this avoid merely shifting the load from the parser (on the
plentiful application servers)
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
Great. Let us know when you've got community approval.
Better than a simple super-majority too per the president set in the
recent discussions related to revision flagging.
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Christensen, Courtney
christens...@battelle.org wrote:
-Original Message-
Given that the current dump process is having problem, why not provide
a simple fix such as providing raw table format , SQL files or even
CSV files?
Howard,
Can't you get
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
It could also pass a virus scan but I don't think it's really needed.
Virus scanners mainly look for known bad code, inside executables. We
don't want any kind of executable.
I've run clamav against the entire set
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
On the other hand we don't want to delay those interactions; it's
probably cheaper to load 15 messages in one chunk after showing the
wizard rather than waiting until each tab click to load them 5 at a time.
But
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes Domas, haha, because no one would ever want to write about math or
high precision scientific measurements in an encyclopedia.
Holy crud! You don't use floating point for this! If you need
deterministic behaviour and
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
This discussion is getting side tracked.
The real complaint here is that
{{#expr:(0.7 * 1000 * 1000) mod 1000}} is giving 69 when it should give
70.
This is NOT a formatting issue, but rather it is bug in the #expr
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