Reducing to normal. It's probably not even right to be here...

Commonist from my understanding is a ToolServer tool, ask them[0] to look after it and maintain it, We should not be creating work arounds for security patches when/if tools are unmaintained.

Are you sure it's unmaintained? or that just the person looking after it hasn't been around for a few days.

[0]. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l

test5555 wrote:

It's not a toolserver tool, but a Java application, e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist

This may not be MediaWiki related, but just an issue for http://commons.wikimedia.org/

I've posted on Commons the fix.

It's relatively simple

test5555 wrote:

Can you implement it into Java?

Changed "Component" to "Wikimedia" rather than "MediaWiki", sorry about that.

Closing again. It's not WMF related

Where is the source code?

Details for the maintainer can be found here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commonist#Bugs_and_feedback try contacting them about it.

For someone that decided to reopen itself. Fixing back to invalid.

*For something that

test5555 wrote:

Can you put this bug into a "user experience" category and maybe add some statistics on the number of users/uploads?

I have published a patched version of the tool that fixes the login problem:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Tools/Commonist#Login_problem_fixed

Enjoy,

--Marcin

test5555 wrote:

Excellent. Thanks for your help. Changing this to fixed.

It's still invalid since the bug isn't to do with anything on here.

test5555 wrote:

I made a separate request to find a solution to limit problems in the future:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23161