I'm running for the WMF board of trustees
What the title says. You can read my candidacy on Meta-Wiki, and ask questions on the talk page!
Posts categorized under: MediaWiki
The future of Echo
Echo (aka "Notifications") is the MediaWiki extension that provides a notifications framework for other features to use, as well as some "core" notification types. It's had a tumultuous history ever since it was deployed to Wikimedia wikis in 2013. To figure out where Echo should go, I think we have…
Why I am still here.
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…
Why am I still here?
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]
Originally posted on Twitter. 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
Originally posted on Twitter. WMF Office set up an intentionally slow network to test what the internet is like in worse places. Literal #firstworldproblems