Recently mastodon.technology announced it was shutting down at the end of the year. It's been a great home for my postings and a bunch of people I follow. My mastodon.technology handle was even printed in my college newspaper (normally reporters' Twitter handles were used).
To fill the gap …
I recently did a short sprint on Scribunto, the MediaWiki extension that powers templates written in Lua. It's a very stable extension that doesn't see very many changes but given how useful it is to making most wikis work, I thought it could use some love.
Patches written:
I've published a new crate, mwseaql, which provides typed definitions of MediaWiki's SQL tables for use with the sea_query query builder.
It's a pretty simple implementation, there's a small Python script that parses MediaWiki's JSON schema file and outputs Rust structs.
Here's an example of it in use from my …
Unfortunately, I didn't make it onto the Wikimedia Foundation board, you can see the full results. In the first round I was behind by ~280 votes, which is pretty close considering nearly 6,000 votes were cast!
I already said it, but I'm really thankful to everyone who supported me …
While we're waiting for the results (September 21st at the earliest), I want to thank everyone who helped with my WMF Board candidacy.
From the people who initially gave me the confidence to run, to the people who helped me get through the Affiliate round, and then the people who …
As I posted about earlier, the election for the WMF Board of Trustees is wrapping up. Today is the final day for voting, it closes at 23:59 September 6 UTC (in your local timezone).
You should:
Thank you to …