This is a follow up to my probably depressing blog post on Friday, entitled "Why am I still here?" I think I figured out the answer, it's a lot of different things! Because we give a damn. Because if I left, I'd still spend my days lurking on IRC, fixing…
Honestly, I'm not sure. I'm not working at the WMF for the money. And it's not because my job is fun - it stopped being fun a few months ago. I'm mostly still here because I don't really have anything else to do right now. I've been doing this for…
MediaWiki now uses PHP [arrays, like, this]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/271208 Welcome to the future! ...or 2014 ;-)
WMF Office set up an intentionally slow network to test what the internet is like in worse places. Literal #firstworldproblems
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 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…
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 sticker ^.^ I'm ready for Wikipedia 15 now!
My first Debian package! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mediawiki_1:1.25.5-1.html
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 Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose)
New scap laptop sticker thanks to bd808 ^.^
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!
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…