Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-19 Thread florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de
Yeah, thanks for your work on this Kunal! enwiki: userpage deletion requested dewiki: local userpage deleted :D Best / Freundliche Grüße Florian Schmidt -Original-Nachricht- Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis Datum: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 02:07:16 +0100 Von:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-19 Thread Petr Bena
Now maybe create some user friendly documentation less technical than what is on extension-desc which tell users how to use this? On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:30 AM, florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de wrote: Yeah, thanks for your work on this Kunal! enwiki:

Re: [Wikitech-l] If you hear about 'hackathon buddies'...

2015-02-19 Thread Quim Gil
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. I no have a buddy :'( no one lieks me Others have conveyed the same message in different ways. Let's proceed with the experiment: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies (The Wikimania site is still

[Wikitech-l] OOjs UI 0.8.0 release

2015-02-19 Thread Trevor Parscal
OOjs UI 0.8.0 has been released today. It will be in MW from 1.25wmf19+. *Breaking changes since last release:* - [BREAKING CHANGE] Make default distribution provide SVG with PNG fallback (Bartosz Dziewoński) We've tagged this as a breaking change, but the only breakage is renaming the

Re: [Wikitech-l] If you hear about 'hackathon buddies'...

2015-02-19 Thread Quim Gil
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any limit for a number of buddies? Let's not overcomplicate things. I suppose that one WMF employee can have more than 1 non-WMF buddy, otherwise the limit of non-WMF people at hackathon would equal number of

[Wikitech-l] (no subject)

2015-02-19 Thread Angela lum neh
Hello everyone, am Angela. Am happy to be part of this mailing list. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] If you hear about 'hackathon buddies'...

2015-02-19 Thread Pine W
Thanks. Forwarding to Ellie for her consideration. Pine On Feb 19, 2015 11:41 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any limit for a number of buddies? Let's not overcomplicate things. I suppose that one WMF

[Wikitech-l] Partial (but dramatic) labs outage on Tuesday: 2015-02-24 1500UTC-1800UTC

2015-02-19 Thread Andrew Bogott
It is with a heavy heart that I must share the news of an upcoming Labs maintenance window. The labs NFS store (which you probably know as /data/project) is filling up rapidly and we need to add more drives. By weird coincidence the actual physical space for that server in the datacenter is

Re: [Wikitech-l] If you hear about 'hackathon buddies'...

2015-02-19 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Feb 19, 2015 2:55 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. Forwarding to Ellie for her consideration. Ellie doesn't seem to be mentioned on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015 or in it's edit history. So probably the wrong person. Maybe try the talk page there. But

Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)

2015-02-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Welcome to the list Angela! Let us know if there's anything we can help with. Also you may want to join the IRC channels #wikimedia-dev and #wikimedia-tech. Cheers! Ryan Kaldari On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Angela lum neh lumneh.angela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, am Angela. Am

[Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Tony Thomas
Hello, Before someone starts with a proposal for the proposed-tech-project 'Allow user login with e-mail address'[1], is there still community consensus for the same ? I personally think its a must-have for MediaWiki, as e-mail address is easy to remember than a complex username. Currently

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Daniel Friesen
I described an alternate idea on how to avoid timing attacks without limiting it to one account per address. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Requests_for_comment/Login_via_e-mail_address/Timing_attacks_on_emails_with_multiple_accounts ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
I would rather avoid this approach, because it involves running multiple (sometimes as many as 5) password hashing operations. The idea of our current key stretching with bcrypt is that the strength parameter should be just large enough to not affect UX. But if we're running the hash many times,

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
I've said this previously, but I believe the only controversial part of this change is ensuring the security and privacy of email addresses. All this involves is constructing a process where every login, regardless of the identifier and regardless of the database state, always performs one and

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread MZMcBride
Bináris wrote: 2015-02-19 13:54 GMT+01:00 Tony Thomas 01tonytho...@gmail.com: I personally think its a must-have for MediaWiki, as e-mail address is easy to remember than a complex username. I think everybody has the chance to choose as simple username as they can remember. It's not nuclear

Re: [Wikitech-l] If you hear about 'hackathon buddies'...

2015-02-19 Thread Petr Bena
Is there any limit for a number of buddies? I suppose that one WMF employee can have more than 1 non-WMF buddy, otherwise the limit of non-WMF people at hackathon would equal number of employees :P P.S. I no have a buddy :'( no one lieks me On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Quim Gil

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 15-02-19 09:27 AM, MZMcBride wrote: n a second or third iteration, we'd ideally have an intermediate post-login screen that allows the user to select an account to use. That would be a catastrophe, from a privacy standpoint; even if we restrict this to verified email addresses, there is no

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Bináris
2015-02-19 13:54 GMT+01:00 Tony Thomas 01tonytho...@gmail.com: I personally think its a must-have for MediaWiki, as e-mail address is easy to remember than a complex username. I think everybody has the chance to choose as simple username as they can remember. It's not nuclear physics or

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Dan Garry
On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Tony Thomas 01tonytho...@gmail.com wrote: I personally think its a must-have for MediaWiki, as e-mail address is easy to remember than a complex username. It's also important because users of mobile devices are very used to this design pattern for logging in to

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi all, I'm the one who started that bug-now-task a while back, and for context, it was based directly on user feedback. What MzM says above is right. I was working with a casual (but quite good) editor who said to me well, I'd edit that Wikipedia page, but I don't edit very often and I can never

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread devunt
Note: As the assignee of T30085 and also as main contributor of RfC, I'll create a patch when proper consensus completed. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-19 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: Thanks for all _your_ work seeing this through the finish line as well, Kunal. This is a great first step towards better user profile support, and brings all Wikimedia wikis closer together. Absolutely. I'm so proud of the work Legoktm has done and I'm very grateful that he

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread MZMcBride
Marc A. Pelletier wrote: On 15-02-19 09:27 AM, MZMcBride wrote: In a second or third iteration, we'd ideally have an intermediate post-login screen that allows the user to select an account to use. That would be a catastrophe, from a privacy standpoint; even if we restrict this to verified email

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread MZMcBride
Tony Thomas wrote: Before someone starts with a proposal for the proposed-tech-project 'Allow user login with e-mail address'[1], is there still community consensus for the same ? I personally think its a must-have for MediaWiki, as e-mail address is easy to remember than a complex username. [...]

[Wikitech-l] If you hear about 'hackathon buddies'...

2015-02-19 Thread Quim Gil
Yesterday we opened the travel request process for Wikimedia Foundation employees in Engineering and Product willing to participate at the Wikimedia Hackathon or Wikimania. There is no public link, but you can follow this task at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89355 In this process, we are

Re: [Wikitech-l] If you hear about 'hackathon buddies'...

2015-02-19 Thread Pine W
This is a great idea, Quim. Will the same concept apply to the Wikimedia Conference in Germany? Pine On Feb 19, 2015 6:57 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Yesterday we opened the travel request process for Wikimedia Foundation employees in Engineering and Product willing to participate

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Chris Steipp
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: That would be a catastrophe, from a privacy standpoint; even if we restrict this to verified email addresses, there is no possible guarantee that the person who controled email address x@y in the past is the person who