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Oct 4 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T319066: It should be cheap to rename skins.

This ticket should be closed as won't fix. "Vector 2022" and similar names were terrible from the start and that was obvious to nearly everyone. The issue isn't that skins are difficult to rename, the issue is that a very small number of people have chosen incredibly poor names for skins.

Oct 4 2022, 3:41 PM · MediaWiki-General, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture

Sep 9 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T317135: Some links to mentioned usernames get overlined instead of underlined when hovered with DiscussionTools using Chrome.

I spent a few minutes puzzling over this last night. The class only being applied to the first link and only when a timestamp is present made it extra enjoyable to debug.

Sep 9 2022, 6:30 PM · Verified, MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.2; 2022-09-19), Editing-team (Kanban Board), Browser-Support-Google-Chrome, DiscussionTools

Aug 2 2022

MZMcBride reopened T117607: Document CirrusSearch schema, especially with respect to the dumps we now provide as "Open".

Reverting misguided closure.

Aug 2 2022, 12:08 AM · Discovery-Search, Documentation, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch
MZMcBride reopened T64733: CirrusSearch does not find all JavaScript and CSS pages when using insource and intitle syntax as "Open".

Reverting misguided closure.

Aug 2 2022, 12:07 AM · Discovery-Search, Discovery-ARCHIVED, Upstream, CirrusSearch

Jul 26 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T124379: Move edit notices for pages out of the MediaWiki namespace and into a parser function on the page itself.

This would be even more of an issue if we implement per-category editnotices this way. By targeting templates like Template:Large category TOC, vandals could literally affect millions of pages. We would likely have to semi or template-protect these templates from editing, which would IMO be an undesirable outcome.

Jul 26 2022, 7:28 AM · MediaWiki-Editnotice, MediaWiki-Page-editing

Jun 24 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T14892: Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form.

Sorry for the bot spam noise.

Jun 24 2022, 1:42 AM · MediaWiki-User-Interface

May 31 2022

MZMcBride reassigned T308995: wikibugs has stopped showing phab/gerrit comments on IRC as of 2022-05-22Z17:00 from MZMcBride to valhallasw.
May 31 2022, 5:45 PM · SRE, Wikibugs
MZMcBride closed T308995: wikibugs has stopped showing phab/gerrit comments on IRC as of 2022-05-22Z17:00 as Resolved.

@valhallasw if you can update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibugs to make it clearer...I think that'd be the only pending thing before we can close this task.

May 31 2022, 5:44 PM · SRE, Wikibugs

Apr 12 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T194105: Allow to rearrange (e.g. dragging) table columns on a wikitable (similar to sortable property) while reading the page on desktop.

By "rearrange table columns", do you mean like dragging them to move in a user defined manner or sorting the columns based on a value in a specific row (as opposed to sorting rows based on the value in a specific column)

Apr 12 2022, 2:38 AM · MediaWiki-User-Interface (Tables), JavaScript

Mar 30 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T303089: Consistent fatal timeout when visiting Special:Log default view for some users.

It seems like the regular error page is being rendered now, at least:

Mar 30 2022, 5:28 AM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.12; 2022-05-16), DBA, Wikimedia-Slow-DB-Query, Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Logevents, Wikimedia-production-error

Mar 15 2022

MZMcBride updated subscribers of T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki.

I really want to ask: Why we does not have a bot to globally block known proxies? It may be meaningful to bring ST47ProxyBot and so on to global blocking known proxies.

Mar 15 2022, 8:42 AM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools
MZMcBride added a comment to T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki.

I'm a volunteer and my IRC bot was working its way through a very large queue due to these blocks. Some user many years ago decided to stalk every action on Meta-Wiki in their private IRC channel. That's why I happened to notice and I'll fix the bot when the queue clears and then probably move on with my life.

Mar 15 2022, 3:11 AM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools

Mar 14 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki.
In T303774#7775994, @Majavah wrote:

Is issuing thousands of global blocks per day now an accepted standard practice?

Apparently yes, and that something that should be discussed on meta and not here.

Mar 14 2022, 10:19 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools
MZMcBride reopened T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki as "Open".
In T303774#7775994, @Majavah wrote:

Closing since I don't see anything actionable here.

Mar 14 2022, 10:14 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools
MZMcBride added a comment to T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki.

Also likely related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive335#Recent_proxy_blocks.

Mar 14 2022, 10:12 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools
MZMcBride added a comment to T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki.

Likely related: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/GeneralNotability/Bullseye.

Mar 14 2022, 9:52 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools
MZMcBride added a comment to T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki.

Hmm, have you asked stewards, as they might know best? :)

Mar 14 2022, 9:29 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools
MZMcBride added a comment to T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki.

Related: P22459.

Mar 14 2022, 9:09 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools
MZMcBride created P22459 For T303774.
Mar 14 2022, 9:09 PM
MZMcBride created T303774: Investigate the practice of making thousands of global blocks per day on Meta-Wiki.
Mar 14 2022, 9:07 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Stewards-and-global-tools

Mar 5 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T303089: Consistent fatal timeout when visiting Special:Log default view for some users.

Possibly a relative of T303010: Query execution timeout for certain Special:Contributions queries.

Mar 5 2022, 1:38 AM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.12; 2022-05-16), DBA, Wikimedia-Slow-DB-Query, Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Logevents, Wikimedia-production-error

Mar 4 2022

MZMcBride created T303089: Consistent fatal timeout when visiting Special:Log default view for some users.
Mar 4 2022, 11:38 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.12; 2022-05-16), DBA, Wikimedia-Slow-DB-Query, Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Logevents, Wikimedia-production-error

Mar 3 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T301505: upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow.

Hi! This resurfaced during the weekend. It is not a single issue (despite appearances), rather the message "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow" that we see can be a symptom of various causes. It is not resolved yet and has a chance of reappearing over the next few days/weeks while we work on what we hope will be a set of more permanent solutions.

Mar 3 2022, 5:39 AM · User-Ladsgroup, SRE, Wikimedia-Incident

Feb 25 2022

MZMcBride triaged T301505: upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow as High priority.
Feb 25 2022, 2:04 AM · User-Ladsgroup, SRE, Wikimedia-Incident
MZMcBride created T302552: Investigate "Ops Monitor (WMF)" wiki account and associated global user group.
Feb 25 2022, 1:54 AM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.19; 2023-01-16), WikimediaMessages, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Feb 17 2022

MZMcBride reopened T301505: upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow as "Open".

This issue is still happening.

Feb 17 2022, 2:14 AM · User-Ladsgroup, SRE, Wikimedia-Incident

Feb 15 2022

MZMcBride added a comment to T298519: Turn on desktop improvements on new set of pilot wikis.

We would like to change the default skin version on a new set of pilot wikis from legacy Vector to the most recent version of Vector as per the results of community consultation.

Feb 15 2022, 4:19 PM · Vector 2022, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Kanbanana-FY-2021-22)
MZMcBride added a comment to T76245: Create ability to trivially spin up MediaWiki instance of a particular patch/diff: patchdemo tool.

@matmarex: Patch demo is awesome, thank you so much!! I just used it with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/762099 and I was able to spin up a new wiki in 59 seconds and easily test my changes.

Feb 15 2022, 6:48 AM · Developer Productivity, MediaWiki-Vagrant, Labs-Vagrant, MediaWiki-General

Sep 2 2021

MZMcBride added a comment to T290223: Outlook/Microsoft bounced all? daily-article-l deliveries for Sept. 2.

Thank you all for investigating this issue. Confirming that I have not touched this script in months, honestly I'd forgotten all about it again. The source code is here: https://github.com/mzmcbride/daily-article.

Sep 2 2021, 10:28 PM · SRE, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists

Oct 5 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T264370: User authentication security issue (Oct 1, 2020).

The undeniable truth of software engineering and computer security is that bugs happen. While techniques like automated testing and code review are used to try to prevent bugs from entering production, and deployment stages are used to minimize the impact of new bugs, those techniques are not capable of preventing every bug (and thus, every security issue) from hitting production servers. This is because all code is written by humans and humans are imperfect.

Trying to eliminate all security problems is a noble goal, but it is also a futile one. Instead, it is much more important to ensure that there is an effective response to those security problems once they are discovered. The forced logouts are an example of that plan in action. The only ways to prevent them would be to expect perfection from human developers, to stop developing and improving MediaWiki, or to stop adequately responding to security incidents. Those are all worse options.

Oct 5 2020, 10:39 PM · Security-Team, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Security

Oct 2 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T264370: User authentication security issue (Oct 1, 2020).

Isn't this the third or fourth time everyone has been forcibly logged out in the past year? How is this acceptable? Why does this keep happening and who's taking responsibility to ensure that it stops happening?

Oct 2 2020, 5:26 PM · Security-Team, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Security

Sep 29 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T263967: A way to exclude a page from a category.

Hm, why would being called autistic be considered a personal attack?

Sep 29 2020, 12:06 AM · MediaWiki-Categories

Jul 13 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T167547: Replace Gerrit & GitHub with GitLab.

Can we stop using this task entirely please? It has been filed in 2017 for a project to migrate out of Gerrit to Phabricator Differential.

Jul 13 2020, 5:38 AM · Wikimedia-GitHub, Gerrit, TechCom-RFC

Jun 23 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T115329: "From" at start of line becomes ">From" in pipermail.

This task has been inactive for 3 years, so I'm closing it please reopen if this still needed.

Jun 23 2020, 2:11 AM · SRE, Upstream, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists

May 1 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T152829: When displaying logs for a page, include move log entries that represent a move TO that title (not only FROM that title).

This task appears to be a duplicate of at least one or more of these tasks:

May 1 2020, 6:49 AM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2022, MediaWiki-Logevents

Mar 8 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T246214: Provide a way to access slack for a contributor.

Mozilla recently shut down its IRC server and switched to Matrix: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix.

Mar 8 2020, 3:05 AM · WMF-Office-IT

Feb 14 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T234234: Port architecture of irc-recentchanges to Kafka.

I appreciate the effort being made toward maintaining capability. Since 2011, I've run the "snatch" IRC bot that sits on irc.wikimedia.org and relays to the "snitch" IRC bot on irc.freenode.net.

Feb 14 2020, 7:30 AM · Data-Engineering, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.10; 2023-05-23), Event-Platform, User-Elukey, Analytics

Feb 12 2020

MZMcBride added a comment to T234234: Port architecture of irc-recentchanges to Kafka.

I'm unconvinced any proposal here is paying down technical debt. Perhaps refinancing or doing some kind of balance transfer.

Feb 12 2020, 4:54 AM · Data-Engineering, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.10; 2023-05-23), Event-Platform, User-Elukey, Analytics

Dec 23 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T76245: Create ability to trivially spin up MediaWiki instance of a particular patch/diff: patchdemo tool.

In the time since I wrote this ticket, I started and ended a job that had this type of betas infrastructure. It was great. When someone filed a GitHub pull request, Jenkins would automatically spin up an instance of the application and address it at https://pr-1234.beta.example.com. While project managers and other non-technical folks found the most value out of being able to see the changes in a browser easily, developers also loved having their code be automatically built and spun up and easily demonstrable to others. We really should do this for Gerrit changesets if we haven't already.

Dec 23 2019, 3:40 AM · Developer Productivity, MediaWiki-Vagrant, Labs-Vagrant, MediaWiki-General
MZMcBride added a comment to T240870: Audit the WMF LDAP group and limit its permissions.

Related: T62412: ldap/wmf group should not have +2 in Gerrit. This group has been problematic for a while.

Dec 23 2019, 3:33 AM · Infrastructure-Foundations, SecTeam-Processed, LDAP

Nov 7 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T237503: Add capabality for attachments in Special:EmailUser.

This task is a duplicate of T11201: Enable sending e-mail attachments using Special:Emailuser.

Nov 7 2019, 5:25 AM · MediaWiki-Email
MZMcBride added a comment to T237503: Add capabality for attachments in Special:EmailUser.

@Aklapper: Because some of these attachments are copyrighted and only for private research use. If copyrighted I must not upload the content of these attachments to MediaWiki.

Nov 7 2019, 5:22 AM · MediaWiki-Email

Sep 12 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T232702: Phabricator Maniphest showing "Cancelar suscripción" in English user interface.

Working fine for me, Can you confirm what language you have selected in your user settings?

Sep 12 2019, 4:27 PM · Phabricator
MZMcBride added a comment to T232692: Should MediaWiki stop storing sessions on the server?.

The problem section doesn't explain what's problematic. It describes the current situation, where we keep sessions server-side and centralized. What's the problem with this approach?

Sep 12 2019, 6:30 AM · MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager
MZMcBride created T232702: Phabricator Maniphest showing "Cancelar suscripción" in English user interface.
Sep 12 2019, 6:28 AM · Phabricator

Jul 23 2019

MZMcBride created T228728: Retain section anchor in URL when clicking "Permanent link" link in the sidebar.
Jul 23 2019, 7:43 AM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.1; 2022-09-12), MediaWiki-User-Interface

Jul 20 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T228554: Add pages per namespace counts to Special:Statistics.

We should have a database table storing the count. $wgAllowSlowParserFunctions can then be removed.

(Is database indexes sufficient?)

Jul 20 2019, 5:56 AM · MediaWiki-Special-pages
MZMcBride added a comment to T228553: Add category count to Special:Statistics.

Do you mean the number of pages in the category namespace (making this a part of T228554) or the number of rows in the category table? Also, potentially related: T37758

Jul 20 2019, 12:22 AM · MediaWiki-Special-pages

Jul 19 2019

MZMcBride created T228554: Add pages per namespace counts to Special:Statistics.
Jul 19 2019, 10:52 PM · MediaWiki-Special-pages
MZMcBride created T228553: Add category count to Special:Statistics.
Jul 19 2019, 10:50 PM · MediaWiki-Special-pages
MZMcBride created T228552: "Content pages" link on Special:Statistics includes &hideredirects=1 though miser mode is enabled on wiki.
Jul 19 2019, 10:39 PM · MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.11; 2021-06-21), MediaWiki-Special-pages

Jun 9 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T225046: HTML output of https://tools.wmflabs.org/admin/tools getting truncated.

Thank you for the quick fix!

Jun 9 2019, 10:24 AM · Tool-admin, cloud-services-team (Kanban), Toolforge

Jun 5 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T225048: ipblocks.ipb_by_text database column has gone missing from English Wikipedia database replica.
Jun 5 2019, 5:53 PM · Data-Services, Documentation
MZMcBride added a comment to T225047: Consider reconciling English Wikipedia database reports.

The entries in Wikipedia:Database reports include a link to the source code. I suggest we do the same for the other reports, rather than linking to on-wiki copies of the code.

Jun 5 2019, 5:53 PM · WMF-General-or-Unknown
MZMcBride created T225048: ipblocks.ipb_by_text database column has gone missing from English Wikipedia database replica.
Jun 5 2019, 5:32 AM · Data-Services, Documentation
MZMcBride created T225047: Consider reconciling English Wikipedia database reports.
Jun 5 2019, 5:21 AM · WMF-General-or-Unknown
MZMcBride created T225046: HTML output of https://tools.wmflabs.org/admin/tools getting truncated.
Jun 5 2019, 5:13 AM · Tool-admin, cloud-services-team (Kanban), Toolforge

Mar 28 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T200742: partial German translation shows up in English text on wikimediafoundation.org.

It's pretty wild that this task remains unresolved. It was reported in July 2018 and we're entering April 2019 next week. Eight months!

Mar 28 2019, 6:31 PM · wikimediafoundation.org

Mar 27 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T176109: Cleaning up and refactoring python-wikitools (for use with Python 3).

Hi @smernst. Are you still interested in discussing this Python module?

Mar 27 2019, 2:59 AM · Tools

Jan 26 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T95129: Publish Wikimedia's WordPress blog theme in Git.

What needs to happen to move this task forward? An e-mail to legal@wikimedia.org?

Jan 26 2019, 9:22 PM · Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal, Diff-blog

Jan 15 2019

MZMcBride added a comment to T21906: Allow default alternate text for images to be provided on the file description page.

Related: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_captions now exists.

Jan 15 2019, 6:14 AM · Multimedia, Accessibility, MediaWiki-File-management
MZMcBride added a comment to T40432: Uploading MS Word files doesn't work ("File extension does not match the detected MIME type of the file").

@Aklapper: it's neither helpful nor constructive to call out "wtf" as swearing. You're quite aware of this.

Jan 15 2019, 3:04 AM · MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.16; 2019-02-05), Multimedia, MediaWiki-Uploading

Dec 19 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T212135: Need help with memory profiling in chromium.

When visiting which URLs?

Dec 19 2018, 5:07 AM · Code-Health-Help-Wanted

Dec 18 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T204496: cloudvps: butterfly project trusty deprecation.

I dumped the database of butterfly-m4m (which was using labs-vagrant, wow!) and created a new butterfly-m4m2, accessible at https://m4m.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Version

Dec 18 2018, 5:28 AM · Cloud-VPS (Ubuntu Trusty Deprecation)

Dec 1 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T210822: Reconsider section heading marker ("→") in edit summaries.

should it be "§" instead of an arrow?

This reminds me of T18691. Long story short: "§" does not mean "paragraph" in the broadest sense in all cultures. In some cultures, it only refers to paragraphs relating to laws.

Dec 1 2018, 3:04 AM · MediaWiki-Page-editing

Nov 30 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T150826: Remove unblockself right on wikimedia wikis (but allow blocked admins to block their blocker).

(I'm side-stepping whether this change should have been made at all or in this fashion to answer this specific question.)

Nov 30 2018, 5:46 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.8; 2018-12-11), MediaWiki-User-management, Community-consensus-needed, Wikimedia-Site-requests
MZMcBride created T210822: Reconsider section heading marker ("→") in edit summaries.
Nov 30 2018, 5:34 AM · MediaWiki-Page-editing

Nov 1 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T208315: Add HTML class when the user can edit the page.

@MZMcBride: Do you plan to add more information for a completely new MediaWiki contributor to the task description, or why did you add good first task?

Nov 1 2018, 5:25 AM · MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.6; 2018-11-27), good first task, MediaWiki-Page-editing

Oct 31 2018

MZMcBride added a project to T208315: Add HTML class when the user can edit the page: good first task.
Oct 31 2018, 4:11 AM · MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.6; 2018-11-27), good first task, MediaWiki-Page-editing

Oct 24 2018

MZMcBride created T207818: Mark api.php HTML doc pages as robots noindex, nofollow.
Oct 24 2018, 3:54 AM · Platform Team Workboards (Done with CPT), MW-1.32-notes, MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.2; 2018-10-30), MediaWiki-Action-API

Oct 17 2018

MZMcBride updated subscribers of T118413: Wikimedia wikis should use https:// in $wgServer.

This task description says that "we don't actually support HTTP anymore" and @Bawolff said the same on IRC this evening. This statement feels misleading since we do support HTTP and will continue to do so indefinitely. Keeping the HTTP --> HTTPS redirects working means supporting HTTP, as far as I'm concerned.

Oct 17 2018, 2:22 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.10; 2023-05-23), User-Tgr, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Oct 14 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T206962: warning for unloadable external images.

We could also add pages to a maintenance category such as "Pages that contain non-whitelisted external images" or similar.

Oct 14 2018, 10:14 PM · Multimedia, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management

Oct 11 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T206694: Determine desired architecture to update localization strings for Wikimedia.

It's unclear to me why these problems have become so pressing that they merit shutting off l10nupdate indefinitely. We've known about them for years, but the value provided by l10nupdate has always outweighed the minor inconveniences (e.g. scap undoing l10nupdate).

Oct 11 2018, 4:38 AM · TechCom, Deployments, I18n

Oct 2 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T205908: Unable to change visibility of log entries when MediaWiki:Mainpage uses Special:MyLanguage (CVE-2020-35477).

I can confirm this buggy behavior on Meta-Wiki. I was able to replicate the issue described in the task description.

Oct 2 2018, 12:57 AM · Vuln-Misconfiguration, MW-1.35-notes, MW-1.31-release-notes, MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.25; 2021-01-05), User-DannyS712, Security-Team, Security, MediaWiki-Logevents, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Trust-and-Safety, Regression, MediaWiki-Revision-deletion

Sep 23 2018

MZMcBride created T205224: Revisit inability to thank bots.
Sep 23 2018, 2:56 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, MW-1.32-notes (WMF-deploy-2018-10-16 (1.32.0-wmf.26)), Growth-Team, Thanks

Sep 18 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T204496: cloudvps: butterfly project trusty deprecation.

What's the upgrade process? I don't suppose one of us can just run apt-get upgrade or similar?

Sep 18 2018, 12:32 AM · Cloud-VPS (Ubuntu Trusty Deprecation)

Sep 6 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T200987: Set up volunteer code review queue.

Can we please just set something up here? I would like to add patches to a queue like that for sure.

Sep 6 2018, 2:13 AM · Code-Review-Workgroup

Aug 30 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T62740: Re-expose transclusions count in MediaWiki's info action (in miser mode).
Aug 30 2018, 3:13 AM · MediaWiki-User-Interface (actions)
MZMcBride added a comment to T62740: Re-expose transclusions count in MediaWiki's info action (in miser mode).

I would really like the transclusions count at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_SCOTUS_case&action=info.

Aug 30 2018, 3:07 AM · MediaWiki-User-Interface (actions)

Aug 26 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T202819: Create production wiki: fixcopyright.wikimedia.org.

Regarding the task description, is "Wikimedia's" more accurately "Wikimedia Foundation Inc.'s"?

Aug 26 2018, 12:27 AM · fixcopyright.wikimedia.org, Security-Team, Patch-For-Review, User-Urbanecm, Wiki-Setup (Create)

Aug 3 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T200742: partial German translation shows up in English text on wikimediafoundation.org.
Aug 3 2018, 1:13 AM · wikimediafoundation.org

Jul 31 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T29006: Investigate ways to make wikimediafoundation.org more open.

No longer applies to new site.

Jul 31 2018, 11:47 PM · wikimediafoundation.org, WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Jul 29 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T200141: Some "Global Accounts" links on Phabricator profiles are broken due to missing encoding.

Deployed and seems to be working as expected. Regards.

Jul 29 2018, 10:17 PM · Wikimedia-Phabricator-Extensions, User-MarcoAurelio
MZMcBride added a comment to T181070: Re-evaluate 24-hour Password Reset email throttle.

Let's keep this conversation constructive. There are a few worthwhile topics to discuss:

  1. The 24-hour throttle between password reset emails
  2. The UI and functionality of Special:PasswordReset
  3. The proposed new functionality of passwordless login

For topic #1 — I acknowledge and agree that a throttle is needed to prevent abuse. And upon further testing, I do not believe we need to alter the 24-hour throttle because the temporary password functions for 24 hours and the throttle is reset when the password is updated by the user.

I believe that topics #2 and #3 could bring usability improvements but would best benefit from a product team (e.g. product manager, interaction designer, developers, community manager) to think thoroughly about all the requirements and corner cases, given the history and complexity of MediaWiki/Wikimedia's user account infrastructure. If David or anyone else thinks these topics are worthwhile to further explore, I would recommend they create a new Phabricator task(s) to propose these as changes to existing functionality, rather than as a defect to the current system.

Jul 29 2018, 10:07 PM · MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager

Jul 26 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T27602: Create SQL dumps for certain database tables, partial if necessary (tracking).

Let me create a new task that does what I should have fixed this one up to be, and I'll add the subscribers of this one to it.

Jul 26 2018, 12:35 AM · Tracking-Neverending, Datasets-General-or-Unknown
MZMcBride added a comment to T200389: Create a maintenance script to remove all users from a user group.

Is there a maintenance script to add a bunch of users to a user group? It seems like that could potentially be a feature within this script and might be a more common case.

Jul 26 2018, 12:32 AM · MediaWiki-Maintenance-system

Jul 23 2018

MZMcBride reopened T197550: Remove approval requirement for new accounts, or patch everything in Phabricator to allow unapproved users to be treated as logged out for permissions purposes as "Open".

Another report in the #mediawiki IRC channel just now:

Jul 23 2018, 4:36 AM · Phabricator
MZMcBride created T200171: Improve autocomplete for "site" input in MassMessage sign-up pages.
Jul 23 2018, 12:15 AM · MassMessage

Jul 22 2018

MZMcBride created T200141: Some "Global Accounts" links on Phabricator profiles are broken due to missing encoding.
Jul 22 2018, 12:36 AM · Wikimedia-Phabricator-Extensions, User-MarcoAurelio

Jul 21 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T198965: Create XML sitemaps so search engine crawlers can crawl more effectively.

I think the relationship between Wikimedia Foundation Inc. and Go Fish Digital has every appearance of being highly problematic, as I outlined here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-July/090737.html. And I don't think XML site maps are going to help Wikipedia's search engine optimization. Any discussion of improving Wikipedia's SEO has long been taken as a joke given Wikipedia's existing ridiculously high placement in Google search results. That said...

Jul 21 2018, 10:46 PM · Performance-Team, WMF-General-or-Unknown, SEO
MZMcBride added a comment to T198970: Epic: Implement SEO improvements suggested by Go Fish Digital.

Okay, posted: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-July/090737.html.

Jul 21 2018, 10:27 PM · WMF-General-or-Unknown, SEO, Epic
MZMcBride added a comment to T198970: Epic: Implement SEO improvements suggested by Go Fish Digital.

I'd really be interested to know what's potentially libelous about labeling activity such as this as whitewashing (from https://gofishdigital.com/online-reputation-management/):

Jul 21 2018, 4:48 AM · WMF-General-or-Unknown, SEO, Epic
MZMcBride added a comment to T197550: Remove approval requirement for new accounts, or patch everything in Phabricator to allow unapproved users to be treated as logged out for permissions purposes .

Has the account approval queue been re-enabled? From the #wikimedia IRC channel this evening:

Jul 21 2018, 4:34 AM · Phabricator

Jul 20 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T200052: Mandate that account passwords must be a minimum of eight characters on Wikimedia projects.

This is an old topic. If you search this Phabricator installation for "password length", you'll find a bunch of related commits and tasks. There are also wiki pages such as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Passwords and mailing list posts about this.

Jul 20 2018, 4:14 AM · Security, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Jul 1 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T198550: Allow hiding certain (NSFW etc) images by default and letting users explicitly expand them.

Related to T34138: User preference to make images tap to display.

Jul 1 2018, 8:02 PM · Page-Previews (Tracking), WMF-Inspiration-Week-2022-ML-Collab, Commons, MediaWiki-extension-requests

Jun 28 2018

MZMcBride closed T69015: m.wikipedia.org and zero.wikipedia.org should redirect differently as Resolved.

Yessir. Thank you for noting the behavior as of 2018-06-27 in this task!

Jun 28 2018, 2:06 AM · Zero, Discovery-ARCHIVED, Mobile, Wikimedia-Apache-configuration
MZMcBride closed T69015: m.wikipedia.org and zero.wikipedia.org should redirect differently, a subtask of T78421: m.{project}.org portal/redirect consistency, as Resolved.
Jun 28 2018, 2:06 AM · Traffic, SRE, Wikimedia-Apache-configuration, DNS

Jun 22 2018

MZMcBride updated subscribers of T59617: Make watchlist table available as curated foo_p.watchlist_count on labsdb.

It looks like we have a generate_watchlist_count.sh script. Does that need to be re-run? If so, are @Marostegui and @jcrespo the only two who can do it or can any shell user?

Jun 22 2018, 12:10 AM · Data-Engineering, cloud-services-team, Data-Services, Patch-For-Review, DBA

Jun 19 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T189763: status.wikimedia.org should have an alternative privacy policy.

I agree with what Timo wrote in T189763#4055149.

Jun 19 2018, 3:19 AM · Security, observability, SRE, Privacy

Jun 18 2018

MZMcBride added a comment to T197550: Remove approval requirement for new accounts, or patch everything in Phabricator to allow unapproved users to be treated as logged out for permissions purposes .

Am I understanding this issue correctly? The current behavior when a new user registers a Wikimedia Phabricator account to file a bug or report some kind of issue is presenting them with this screen?

Jun 18 2018, 3:21 AM · Phabricator