In the UseModWiki days, Wikipedia page titles were "CamelCase" and automatically linked (see CamelCase and Wikipedia).
MediaWiki on the other hand uses the famous [[bracketed links]], aka "free links". For most uses, page titles are the primary identifier of a page, whether it's in URLs for
external consumption or [[Page …
I just released version 0.2.0 of the mwapi_responses crate. It automatically generates Rust types based on the query parameters specified for use in MediaWiki API requests. If you're not familiar with the MediaWiki API, I suggest you play around with the API sandbox. It is highly dynamic, with …
(This is my belated #newindebianbullseye post.)
The latest version of the Debian distro, 11.0 aka Bullseye, was released last week and after a long absence, includes Kiwix! Previously in Debian 10/Buster, we only had the underlying C/C++ libraries available.
If you're not familiar with it, Kiwix is …
Yesterday I was working on upgrading the servers that power Wikimedia's Docker registry (see T272550). Since these are virtual machines, I was just creating new ones and going to delete the old ones later (because VMs are cattle, not pets).
We have a handy script to create new VMs, so …
As one of the top contributors to MediaWiki, the free wiki engine that powers Wikipedia, I'm often asked how I got started. To celebrate Wikipedia's 20th birthday, here's that unfortuante story.
In late 2012, I was a bored college student who was spending most of his time editing Wikipedia. I …
Last week I officially joined the Site Reliability Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be working with the Service Operations team, which "...takes care of public and “user-visible” services."
I'm glad to be back at the WMF; I had originally started working there in 2013 but recently took a …