Kiwix to reenter Debian
Roughly 3 years since I started working on it, @kiwix is set to reenter #debian pending ftp-master review! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/kiwix_2.0.4-1.htmlProper blog post to follow if/once it's accepted.
Posts about MediaWiki, Wikipedia, and everything else wiki related
libkiwix9 in NEW
Took me a while, but libkiwix9 is now waiting in Debian's NEW queue: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libkiwix_9.2.2+dfsg-1.htmlAlso, hopefully going to have another cool announcement in the future, still waiting on a PR to be merged :)
Tried Rust on Toolforge
Tried to get a #rustlang tool deployed on #Toolforge today and failed. Wrote a quick summary on how to move forward: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194953#6183849Input from experienced rust Toolforgers like @magnusmanske and @danielhglus would be appreciated.
Skip Mobile Wikipedia 0.2.1
New bugfix release for my Skip Mobile Wikipedia addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/skip-mobile-wikipedia/It's fully compatible with Firefox for Android if you always want to use the desktop Wikipedia view on your phone. Despite the name, it supports all Wikimedia wikis.Today's release, 0.2.1, fixes wikidata.org support.
MediaWiki packages for Ubuntu 20.04 Focal available
Packages for the MediaWiki 1.31 LTS release are now available for the new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" release in my PPA. Please let me know if you run into any errors or issues. In the future these packages will be upgraded to the MediaWiki 1.35 LTS release, whenever that's…
Fixing npm security issues immediately in MediaWiki projects
For the past 5ish years, I've been working on a project called libraryupgrader (LibUp for short) to semi-automatically upgrade dependency libraries in the 900+ MediaWiki extension and related git repositories. For those that use GitHub, it's similar to the new dependabot tool, except LibUp is free software. One cool feature…
1.31.7 MediaWiki security update
The latest #MediaWiki security update has hit #Debian - https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00053.htmlOnly buster users need to update as stretch did not contain the vulnerable code (yay?).
mwparser on wheels
mwparserfromhell is now fully on wheels. Well...not those wheels - Python wheels! If you're not familiar with it, mwparserfromhell is a powerful parser for MediaWiki's wikitext syntax with an API that's really convenient for bots to use. It is primarily developed and maintained by Earwig, who originally wrote it for…
Celebrating 2 years of MediaWiki codesearch
It's been a little over 2 years since I announced MediaWiki codesearch, a fully free software tool that lets people make regex searches across all the MediaWiki-related code in Gerrit and much more. While I expected it to be useful to others, I didn't anticipate how popular it would become.…
Automatically rewriting links to use HTTPS on Wikimedia sites
In March 2018, Facebook began automatically rewriting links to use HTTPS using the HSTS preload list. Now all Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia) do the same. If you're not familiar with it, the HSTS preload list tells browsers (and other clients) that the website should only be visited over HTTPS, not…
SecureLinkFixer in beta
In other #HTTPS news, a feature to automatically rewrite HTTP links on #Wikipedia to HTTPS (using domains on the HSTS preload list) just landed on our beta cluster. Full production rollout coming soon.More details: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200745
LibUp 2.0 test run
I did the first test run of LibUp 2.0 (formerly libraryupgrader) last night across MediaWiki extension repositories, only hit one show-stopper bug (oops).Here's an example: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/AJAXPoll/+/522645 I think the coolest new feature is the hashtags, which allow you to filter patches for exactly which libraries were upgraded, which CVEs were…
MediaWiki hates potatoes
End of an era, #MediaWiki will no longer silently accept "A potato" as part of a valid timestamp: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2019-June/000146.html(Don't worry, PHP will still take it!)
How many legs does a horse have?
How many legs does a horse have? Google thinks the answer is six.Good job Wikipedia?
Some people would rather be at FOSDEM
Its the final day of #Wikimedia all hands and some people would rather be at #FOSDEM