Last modified: 2009-12-12 06:35:00 UTC
The portal test tool at portal-test.mediawiki.org now returns a warning and a fatal error, instead of a rendering of the Meta-Wiki entry given by the "template" parameter. The result: Warning: main(./includes/ProfilerStub.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wikipedia/common/php-1.5/CommonSettings.php on line 22 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './includes/ProfilerStub.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/wikipedia/common/php-1.5/CommonSettings.php on line 22 This tool is necessary to test changes to the main Wikipedia portal before they are made live.
I've fixed the problem, however I've also disabled it entirely for the moment as it appears to be a big fat open security hole.
Right now a workaround is to copy the contents of [[m:Www.wikipedia.org template/temp]] to <http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data>, click "Generate", and click on the link that is generated. This script simply creates a data: URL that is local to the user's web browser; Wikimedia's server would not be affected by any malicious code. Unfortunately, it won't work in Internet Explorer. It might be possible to create a trimmed-down version of this script in JavaScript (since we don't need the file upload option), host it at tools.wikimedia.de as a replacement for the portal-test tool, and close this bug.
Closing INVALID. Whatever portal-test was, it seems to be long since gone. The place to update the Wikimedia project portals is on Meta.
portal-test was for actually updating the portals. It rendered the contents of [[m:Www.wikipedia.org template/temp]] as HTML. That way non-sysops could test changes before Meta sysops pushed the changes live (at [[m:Www.wikipedia.org template]]).
