Posts categorized under: MediaWiki

Six months of Wikis World

I did a lot of new, crazy things in 2022, but by far, the most unplanned and unexpected was running a social media server for my friends. Somehow it has been six months since Taavi and I launched Wikis World, dubbed "a Mastodon server for wiki enthusiasts". Given that milestone,…

Wikimedia Foundation layoffs

The Wikimedia Foundation is currently going through layoffs, reducing headcount by about 5%. I am disappointed that no public announcement has been made, rather people are finding out through rumor and backchannels. In February when I asked whether the WMF was planning layoffs at the "Conversation with the Trustees" event…

Two steps forward, one step back for mwbot-rs

I was intending to write a pretty different blog post about progress on mwbot-rs but...ugh. The main dependency of the parsoid crate, kuchiki, was archived over the weekend. In reality it's been lightly/un-maintained for a while now, so this is just reflecting reality, but it does feel like a huge…