[Wikitech-l] SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi in latest tarball does not include security fixes

2017-04-29 Thread Brian Wolff
Hello everyone. Unfortunately there's been a mistake in generating the 1.28.1 and 1.27.2 tarball releases, where the wrong version of SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension was included. The version of this extension that was included has publically known severe security issues in it. Until such a time

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

2017-04-29 Thread Isarra Yos
That would be great. Interesting, thanks. -I On 28/04/17 20:57, Victoria Coleman wrote: Hi there, Quim and his team have indeed thought through the totality of tech community events and I am sure he can respond here with his thoughts. Regarding the MediaWiki roadmap, the thinking is that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Turkey ban

2017-04-29 Thread Neslihan Turan
Unfortunately, it does. According to news, the reason of the block is some defamatory content about Turkey but it is not exactly known yet. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Turkey ban

2017-04-29 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Surely it should be possible to have a more resilient access to Wikipedia content in the app than most vanilla browsers provide? On Sat, Apr 29, 2017, 13:40 Florian Schmidt < florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de> wrote: > Because the app uses the same base URL for the requests to Wikipedia as >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Turkey ban

2017-04-29 Thread Brion Vibber
The apps aren't currently designed with network-level blocking circumvention in mind. It's certainly possible to be much more resilient especially to something simple like a DNS blacklist, but: * anything we do starts an arms race where smarter blocking could block that too * the apps are open

[Wikitech-l] Turkey ban

2017-04-29 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Does it also affect the app? If so, why, and can we circumvent that? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Turkey ban

2017-04-29 Thread Florian Schmidt
Because the app uses the same base URL for the requests to Wikipedia as other access methods (e.g. internet browsers), a block a Wikipedia would apply to the App, too. Sorry, but there's no way to work around this, if a block is implemented to block all requests to a specific domain. One