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: Read about the candidates Vote! Tell other people to vote! Thank you to everyone…
Kiwix is an offline content reader, best known for distributing copies of Wikipedia. I have been maintaining it in Debian since 2017. This year most of the work has been keeping all the packages up to date in anticipation of next year's Debian 12 Bookworm release, including several transitions for…
I am currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board. You can read my answers to community questions and see the endorsements from other Wikimedians. Voting opens in a few hours and runs through September 6. The best way to support me in the election is: Vote using SecurePoll Rank me…
I gave a very quick lightning talk at #Wikimania today about our migration to #Mailman3: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Wiki_World%27s_Fair_lightning_talk_-_Mailman3_migration.webm
In December 2021, I discovered CVE-2022-28201, which is that it's possible to get MediaWiki's Title::newMainPage() to go into infinite recursion. More specifically, if the local interwikis feature is configured (not used by default, but enabled on Wikimedia wikis), any on-wiki administrator could fully brick the wiki by editing the [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]…
New #Toolforge tool alert: https://steve-adder.toolforge.org/It lets you see what % of page views on Wikimedia wikis come from the specified browser range. This data is already available in dashboards, just this adds up multiple versions for you.More info: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Steve-adderWritten in #Rust using Rocket and the csv crate. I really appreciate…