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: Simplify creating…
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, whether…
For two straight weeks 9 out of 10 of the top 10 viewed articles on Wikipedia were about the British Royal family. The 10th article was a newly released Bollywood film lmao.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-09-30/Traffic_report
I ported https://apt-browser.toolforge.org/ from Python/Flask to #Rust/RocketIt's already faster and I didn't even finish all the performance improvements on it (e.g lazy_static for regexes).
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…