Remove user name and edit comment from html <head>
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As discussed in T122390 and T120409, exposing this information without a suppression mechanism is not very wise. There were no issues identified with removing this information in T122390, so lets turn this into an actionable sub-task.

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		Restricted Task
Duplicate	None	T109331 Deleted files sometimes remain visible to non-privileged users if permanently linked
Duplicate	None	T133819 upload-lb.ulsfo.wikimedia.org still allow access to some deleted files
Duplicate	BBlack	T119038 Image cache issue when 'over-writing' an image on commons
Resolved	• ema	T133821 Make CDN purges reliable
Resolved	daniel	T102476 RFC: Requirements for change propagation
Resolved	• GWicke	T84923 Reliable publish / subscribe event bus
Resolved	Ottomata	T114443 EventBus MVP
Resolved	Eevans	T116786 Integrate eventbus-based event production into MediaWiki
Declined	• csteipp	T120133 security review of ramsey/uuid
Resolved	• csteipp	T120212 Security review of EventBus extension
Resolved	• GWicke	T120409 RESTBase should honor wiki-wide deletion/suppression of users
Open	None	T122390 Is RDFa metadata in Parsoid HTML head actually useful to you / no user name & edit comment suppression in Parsoid <head> metadata
Resolved	• ssastry	T125266 Remove user name and edit comment from html <head>

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• GWicke created this task.Jan 29 2016, 10:56 PM

• GWicke raised the priority of this task from to Medium.

• GWicke raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.

• GWicke updated the task description. (Show Details)

• GWicke added projects: Mobile-Content-Service, Web-Team-Backlog, RESTBase, VisualEditor, ContentTranslation-CXserver, Parsoid.

• GWicke set Security to None.

• GWicke added a parent task: T120409: RESTBase should honor wiki-wide deletion/suppression of users.

• GWicke updated the task description. (Show Details)

• GWicke added subscribers: Esanders, Catrope, Krenair and 10 others.

I raised the priority, as this is the remaining blocker for T120409.

• ssastry moved this task from Needs Triage to Next Up on the Parsoid board.Feb 1 2016, 3:51 AM

Jdforrester-WMF edited a custom field.Feb 2 2016, 7:44 PM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR0: Interrupt on the VisualEditor board.

The Mobile-Content-Service does not use this information nor does it propagate it.

• bearND removed a project: Mobile-Content-Service.Feb 3 2016, 9:52 PM

Amire80 added a project: ContentTranslation.Feb 18 2016, 1:19 PM

ContentTranslation also does not use this

Change 271930 had a related patch set uploaded (by Subramanya Sastry):
T125266: Remove user/contribution information from header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/271930

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 19 2016, 11:28 PM

Change 271930 merged by jenkins-bot:
T125266: Remove user/contribution information from header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/271930

• ssastry closed this task as Resolved.Feb 22 2016, 10:11 PM

• ssastry claimed this task.

• ssastry removed a project: Patch-For-Review.

• GWicke mentioned this in T128525: Strip old metadata from old Parsoid content <head>: mw:TimeUuid, user, comment.Mar 1 2016, 10:40 PM

• Phabricator_maintenance moved this task from Incoming to 2015-16 Q3 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Mar 7 2018, 1:04 AM

Restricted Application added a project: User-Ryasmeen. · View Herald TranscriptMar 7 2018, 1:04 AM

• ssastry mentioned this in T221907: Security Concept Review For Parsoid-PHP.Apr 26 2019, 3:13 PM

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