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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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 OpenNoneT396539 Introduce a way to edit a span of text from within read mode
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 OpenNoneT55784 [EPIC] Use Parsoid HTML for all page views
 OpenNoneT272987 [EPIC] Parsoid read views for DiscussionTools
 OpenNoneT297840 Populate ParserCache with Parsoid output as a post-edit hook
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 Resolved• emaT133821 Make CDN purges reliable
 ResolveddanielT102476 RFC: Requirements for change propagation
 Resolved• GWickeT84923 Reliable publish / subscribe event bus
 ResolvedOttomataT114443 EventBus MVP
 ResolvedEevansT116786 Integrate eventbus-based event production into MediaWiki
 Declined• csteippT120133 security review of ramsey/uuid
 Resolved• csteippT120212 Security review of EventBus extension
 Resolved• GWickeT120409 RESTBase should honor wiki-wide deletion/suppression of users
 OpenNoneT393717 Put lints in ParserOutput/RefreshLinksJob
 OpenBUG REPORTNoneT393682 Wikifunctions fragments that trigger errors and try to put the page in a tracking category show it at the bottom of the view page, but the pages using the fragment do not appear on the category page
 OpenNoneT409815 SLI: MediaWiki system load
 OpenNoneT393716 [EPIC] RefreshLinksJob should use Parsoid-generated metadata
 OpenNoneT310511 Metadata comparison testing between Parsoid and the legacy parser
 OpenNoneT310512 Parsoid and the legacy parser should emit exactly the same ParserOutput metadata
 OpenNoneT393925 Parsoid should generate the <head> on the core side, from the ParserOutput metadata
 OpenNoneT122390 Is RDFa metadata in Parsoid HTML head actually useful to you / no user name & edit comment suppression in Parsoid <head> metadata
 ResolvedssastryT125266 Remove user name and edit comment from html <head>
 OpenNoneT331483 Resolve differences between Parsoid & legacy parser TOC metadata output for template, extension, and parser-function generated content
 ResolvedcscottT213468 Parsoid section IDs don't correspond to PHP section IDs when headings are transcluded
 ResolvedABreault-WMFT215628 Make Parsoid and PHP edit-section numbering consistent when <noinclude> and <includeonly> are in use
 ResolvedcscottT214538 MediaWiki shouldn't assign section numbers during tokenization, but instead only when headings are generated
 OpencscottT359221 Parsoid's TOC handling needs to deal with HTML-returning components (exts, SPTs, parser funcs returning HTML) consistently
 ResolvedssastryT359450 Parsoid is not adding headings to TOC entries in some templated content scenarios
 OpenJgiannelosT402456 More Parsoid TOC edge cases?
 OpenJgiannelosT403188 Implement TOC comparison in Linter extension

Event Timeline

• 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-Archived, 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.
• GWicke added a comment.Jan 29 2016, 10:59 PM

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.
• bearND subscribed.Feb 3 2016, 9:52 PM

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
santhosh subscribed.Feb 19 2016, 3:29 AM

ContentTranslation also does not use this

gerritbot subscribed.Feb 19 2016, 11:28 PM

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
gerritbot added a comment.Feb 22 2016, 9:34 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
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• 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-Archived 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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