Based on -tech IRC discussion, I'm summing this up @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/20190404-Adblock-issue given WikiTech is currently Account creation locked.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 21:17, RhinosF1 Wikipedia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> >> 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) < >>> [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> 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 >>>> > [email protected] >>>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) >>>> Community Engagement - Documentation >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) >> Community Engagement - Documentation >> Wikimedia Foundation >> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
