I've submitted a talk to Wikimania titled apt install mediawiki. It's about getting the MediaWiki package back into Debian, and efforts to improve the overall process. If you're interested, sign up on the submissions page :)
Barring any bugs, the last set of changes to the MediaWiki Debian package for the stretch release landed earlier this month. There are some documentation changes, and updates for changes to other, related packages. One of the other changes is the addition of a "powered by Debian" footer icon (drawn…
Today texvc was re-accepted for inclusion into Debian. texvc is a TeX validator and converter than can be used with the Math extension to generate PNGs of math equations. It had been removed from Jessie when MediaWiki itself was removed. However, a texvc package is still useful for those who…
In MediaWiki 1.28, MaxSem improved diff limits in the pure PHP diff implementation that ships with MediaWiki core. However Wikimedia and other larger wikis use a PHP extension called wikidiff2, for better performance and additional support for Japanese, Chinese, and Thai. wikidiff2 1.4.1 is now available in Debian unstable and…
Originally posted on Twitter. If you go to all this effort to make a game, how do you get the domain name wrong???
Originally posted on Twitter. MediaWiki 1.27 LTS is now in Debian unstable! https://tracker.debian.org/news/783855
