Hi Nick, Thanks for the Clarification, From what I know, the issue was present for about 10 hours. I'm not sure how widespread the impact was page wise. Is it worth summarising what happened anywhere else?
Thanks, RhinosF1 On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 21:15, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi RhinosF1, > It was only a single webpage that was reported as being blocked by the > browser extension (although there were presumably other pages and wikis > affected that went unreported in the past), thus it is probably not of > great concern to our thousands of contributors who read the short Tech News > newsletter. We try to keep the newsletter short and focused on important > items of widespread interest, both for ease of translation and so that > people read it in full each week. You can read details about what normally > gets included at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors > Cheers, > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:38 PM RhinosF1 Wikipedia <rhino...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> Thanks to Nick for the PR. >> >> As far as I understand, Easy list is some sort of ad blocking system that >> multiple ad blockers use. >> >> From what I can see, Wiktionary got caught up in a block on URLs ending >> in /ads and /advert making some pages blank. It's best to read the Tech IRC >> log from 4pm onwards to get the idea. >> >> I'll have a look at Tech News. I'm happy to write a proper report on what >> happened if necessary. Where you would suggest posting it? I can't use >> Wikitech due to Account Creation block. >> >> Thanks, >> RhinosF1 >> >> On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 19:02, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < >> nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> Easy List seems to be one of the component in various adblocker tools >>> (possibly enabled by default in some or all of them?). >>> https://easylist.to/ >>> E.g. the "uBlock Origin" extension's settings panel which lists it, >>> apparently enabled by default: >>> https://i.postimg.cc/yN217Tg5/Selection-001.jpg >>> I've submitted a pull-request at >>> https://github.com/easylist/easylist/pull/3190 >>> (and +1 to the "please include sufficient context" note :) >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:58 AM Andre Klapper <aklap...@wikimedia.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 16:08 +0100, RhinosF1 Wikipedia wrote: >>> > > Could someone please see if WMF wikis could be whitelisted as a >>> follow up >>> > > to >>> > > https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3188? >>> > >>> > What does that mean? Whitelisting what exactly? Where? Please include >>> > sufficient context to allow folks on this list to understand relevance. >>> > >>> > > Despite the short term distruption, Could it be placed on Tech News >>> as >>> > > users were noticing that some pages were blocked? >>> > >>> > See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News for "Inclusion criteria" >>> > under "Get started". Obviously I have no idea what "Easy List" is. >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > andre >>> > -- >>> > Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate >>> > https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikitech-l mailing list >>> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) >>> Community Engagement - Documentation >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> > > -- > Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) > Community Engagement - Documentation > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
