WMF Office set up an intentionally slow network
WMF Office set up an intentionally slow network to test what the internet is like in worse places. Literal #firstworldproblems
Posts about MediaWiki, Wikipedia, and everything else wiki related
Cross-wiki notifications on test wikis
As was teased in this week's tech news, cross-wiki notifications are now available as a BetaFeature on testwiki and test2wiki. Simply go to your preferences, enable "Enhanced notifications", trigger a notification for yourself on test2.wikipedia.org (e.g. log out and edit your talk page), and open up your notifications flyout! The…
Wikipedia turns 15
Wikipedia turned 15 last week. Aside from having my friends wish me a happy birthday, I also went to the party in San Francisco. I had a good time meeting up with some Wikimedians that I hadn't seen in a while, and also enjoyed the talks. My favorite was by…
2016 Wikimedia Developer Summit recap
A lot happened at the Wikimedia Developer Summit over the past week, I had a fantastic time and enjoyed getting to meet up with everyone again. Here's a quick recap: Learned about the status of the Differential migration, I feel more reassured about the workflow now, just not sure about…
New Wikipedia 15 sticker
New sticker ^.^ I'm ready for Wikipedia 15 now!
My first Debian package!
My first Debian package! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mediawiki_1:1.25.5-1.html
Packaging MediaWiki for Debian
Over the past few months I've been working on an updated Debian package for MediaWiki. After working with Luke, Faidon, Moritz, and a few others, we now have a mostly working package! It's being developed in Gerrit (the mediawiki/debian repository), so it hopefully will get more visibility, and we can…
You can never have too many Wikidata stickers
You can never have too many Wikidata stickers Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose)
New scap laptop sticker
New scap laptop sticker thanks to bd808 ^.^
2016 Wikimedia Developer Summit
I'll be at the 2016 Architecture MediaWiki Wikimedia Developer Summit over the next week. I mainly want to talk to/nag people about: Configuration Extension management Librarization Composer (okay, not really that much) Wiki farms! "Global" and cross-wiki tools/tooling Why JSON is better than YAML (really) I've also proposed a session…
My first CVE: CVE-2015-8007!
My first CVE: CVE-2015-8007!
Introducing mwmon
Ocassionally some of the MediaWiki wikis I help maintain would go down, usually due to heavy traffic or a DoS of some kind. Sometimes Apache would be overloaded, or even MySQL being hammered (I'm looking at you DPL). When this was happening around WikiConference USA time to that wiki, I…
Just finished upgrading the MusicBrainz wiki
Just finished upgrading the MusicBrainz wiki to 1.23! https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Special:Version
Nothing like accidentally taking down Wikimedia sites
Nothing like accidentally taking down Wikimedia sites to make a bad day even worse: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/20151014-MediaWiki Bright side: new t-shirt!
PHPCS now voting on MediaWiki core
I announced earlier today that PHP CodeSniffer is now a voting job against all submitted MediaWiki core patches. This is the result of a lot of hard work by a large number of people. Work on PHPCS compliance usually comes in bursts, most recently I was motivated after a closing…