(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 an offline contentā¦
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, soā¦
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. Iā¦
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 āuser-visibleā services." I'm glad to be back at the WMF; I had originally started working there in 2013 but recently took aā¦
Note: A signed version of this announcement can be found at https://legoktm.com/w/index.php?title=PGP/2020-12-14_key_consolidation. I am consolidating my PGP keys to simplify key management. Previously I had a separate key for my wikimedia.org email, I am revoking that key and have added that email as an identity to my main key. Iā¦
Over the past two weeks I significantly sped up two of my Toolforge tools by using Redis, a key-value database. The two tools, checker and shorturls were slow for different reasons, but now respond instantaneously. Note that I didn't do any proper benchmarking, it's just noticably faster. If you're notā¦
