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.
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.
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…
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…
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?).
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…
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.…
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…
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
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…
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? Google thinks the answer is six.Good job Wikipedia?
Its the final day of #Wikimedia all hands and some people would rather be at #FOSDEM
The Symfony project has recently created a set of pure-PHP polyfills for both PHP extensions and newer language features. It allows developers to add requirements upon those functions or language additions without increasing the system requirements upon end users. For the most part, I think this is a good thing,…
Artemis Fowl, sitting right of center on my "favorite books" shelf. Nearly two decades later, the Artemis Fowl movie is finally happening. It's hard for me to overstate how important Artemis Fowl has been to me. One of my friends asked me if I saw the trailer today and I…