Got to meet Chris Smalls, founder of the #Amazon Labor Union, today, who coincidentally has a new freely-licensed #Wikipedia photo and voice sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_SmallsPhotos are free for anyone to reuse, with attribution (CC-BY-SA 4.0): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chris_Smalls
It has been reported that the Russian government has threatened to block access to Wikipedia for documenting narratives that do not agree with the official position of the Russian government. One of the anti-censorship strategies I've been working on is Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader (and plenty of other content…
Wow, some new stats from @kiwix: a fifty-fold increase in traffic from Russia, which now accounts for 40% of new downloads!Source: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&type=revision&diff=22975552&oldid=22974473
Uncyclopedia continues to parody Wikipedia perfectly, now running its own Community Wishlist Survey: https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Forum:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022
Lately I've been working on mwbot-rs, a framework to write bots and tools in Rust. My main focus is for things related to Wikipedia, but all the code is generic enough to be used by any modern (1.35+) MediaWiki installation. One specific feature of mwbot-rs I want to highlight today…
From Wikipedia's homepage: "Did you know...that the #Tokio platform for the #Rust programming language uses a work stealing scheduler?"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_(software)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_stealing