Today's #MediaWiki security release fixes a pretty bad wiki-leak: https://w.wiki/4ZAeThere's a pretty simple mitigation that can be applied via configuration in LocalSettings.php if you can't patch immediately.Fixes are out for Debian packages, the "official" Docker image, and should land in my Ubuntu PPA for focal/bionic shortly...
I wrote for the #Wikipedia Signpost this month about how #MediaWiki details with file uploads on the backend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-11-29/Technology_report
I'm about 70% done rewriting one of my Wikipedia bots into Rust from Python. Reduced the runtime from 12+ hours to under 10 minutes.I suspect the final runtime will end up being no more than 15-20 minutes.Yay for fearless concurrency ^.^
I wrote a tutorial on how to deploy a #Rust web application on Wikimedia's #Toolforge platform: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/My_first_Rust_toolIt uses #Rocket and demonstrates how to make queries against #Wikipedia's MariaDB replicas.
I just released version 0.2.0 of the mwapi_responses crate. It automatically generates Rust types based on the query parameters specified for use in MediaWiki API requests. If you're not familiar with the MediaWiki API, I suggest you play around with the API sandbox. It is highly dynamic, with the user…
It is surprisingly straightforward to move a mailing list from Google Groups to #Mailman 3Documented the entire process at
Just released 0.2.0 of package-lock-lint: https://lib.rs/crates/package-lock-lint with lockfileVersion 2 (#npm 7) support!It performs basic checks on package-lock.json because they're impossible to review.And I formally proposed enabling it in #Wikimedia CI: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/Q63LIVSJQAGFDBEFSXN24EMHGQYNTQJR/
(This is my belated #newindebianbullseye post.) The latest version of the Debian distro, 11.0 aka Bullseye, was released last week and after a long absence, includes Kiwix! Previously in Debian 10/Buster, we only had the underlying C/C++ libraries available. If you're not familiar with it, Kiwix is an offline content…
New blog post about last month's #Wikimedia Datatcenter switchover: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/07/23/june-2021-data-center-switchover/"In June 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Site Reliability Engineering team switched most user traffic from our primary datacenter in Virginia (“eqiad”) to our secondary one in Texas (“codfw”). This is an exercise we’ve done multiple times over the past 5 years,…
It's official, #Wikimedia is moving to #LiberaChat / @liberachat I've set up most of #mediawiki (still missing one bot), which, according to ChanServ, was originally created on Freenode by @eloquence on Jan 02 20:06:07 2004 (17y 20w 2d ago)!!
Today's lesson in MariaDB query optimization: making one query is faster than making 2,600+:https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/merge_requests/857https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282348
25% of #Wikimedia's mailing lists have been migrated to #Mailman3 so far!https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280322#7064397
The "soon" in "#Wikimedia will upgrade to #Mailman3 soon" has finally arrived!https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/We'll start migrating lists in a few days, some more details at: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094459.html (hopefully one of the last pipermail links I share)Shoutout to @ladsgroup for instigating this and really driving it forward!
The latest #MediaWiki security release is now in #Debian stable/buster, time to update: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2021/msg00070.htmlUpdated packages for buster-backports, bullseye and my Ubuntu PPA will be available shortly.
#Mailman3 for #Wikimedia is ready for testing, see the announcement from @ladsgroup and myself: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-March/094382.htmlHopefully a step forward in making Wikimedia mailing lists more accessible.