To clarify, the feature being talked about is not enabled on WMF wikis, so stewards aren't using it.
The knowing an email has been sent is a separate feature afaik. -- bawolff On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > I've forwarded this to the Checkuser-L private mailing list. I don't > personally have an opinion on this, but other checkusers and stewards may > be using some element of the functionality. > > Certainly, *knowing* if someone is sending out emails via the interface > can be very useful information for us, even if we don't know to whom they > have been sent. > > Risker/Anne > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 07:22, Máté Szabó <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [x-posting from mediawiki-l] >> >> To Whom It May Concern: >> >> Since 2012, the CheckUser extension has contained functionality to >> optionally store the encrypted recipients for emails that were sent >> via Special:EmailUser, if the operator set $wgCUPublicKey to a valid >> RSA public key. The encryption mechanism used by this logic is >> outdated and needs an update.[1] >> >> However, it's unclear if anybody is using this feature. It is not >> enabled in WMF production, and was implemented without a corresponding >> BZ reference. There is also no functionality in CheckUser that allows >> access to the stored data. >> >> If you are actively using this functionality and would like it to be >> retained, please leave a comment on the deprecation task T384460.[2] >> >> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384398 >> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384460 >> >> Yours faithfully, >> Máté Szabó (he/him/his) >> Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety Product >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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