New dashboard shows the last jenkins run for a MediaWiki extension/skin: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ci/last_run.htmlI mostly made this to be able to find extensions that fail PHP 7.0 tests while it's still non-voting, and to find gaps in coverage (there's one Wikimedia-deployed extension with no voting tests :().One day I need to unify…
My proudest work this week is removing nearly 4,000 lines of code that had been copied around to different MediaWiki extension repositories. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:mediawiki-phan-config
ICYMI: Between the Brackets is a new #MediaWiki podcast by Yaron: https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/ The first episode is a interview/discussion with my MediaWiki Platform teammate Cindy Cicalese!
LuaSandbox is now available for Xenial in https://launchpad.net/~legoktm/+archive/ubuntu/mediawiki-lts #scribunto #luasandbox #mediawiki
The MediaWiki packaging team for Debian (just me really) is now fully off of the deprecated alioth.debian.org! https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mediawiki-devel/2018-January/003271.html
New PHP tool to diff between clover.xml coverage reports: https://gitlab.com/legoktm/clover-diffI'm hoping to release a much cooler tool that builds on top of this soon :)
Thank you 2017 #MediaWiki code reviewers! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-January/089381.html
The MassMessage MediaWiki extension hit 1,000 commits today, following an update of the localization messages for the Russian language. MassMessage replaced a Toolserver bot that allowed sending a message to all Wikimedia wikis, by integrating it into MediaWiki and using the job queue. We also added some nice features like…
My Toolforge (formerly "Tool Labs") tools will now start requiring HTTPS, and redirecting any HTTP traffic. It's a little bit of common code for each tool, so I put it in a shared "toolforge" library. from flask import Flask import toolforge app = Flask(__name__) app.before_request(toolforge.redirect_to_https) And that's it! Your tool…
Full quality video available on Wikimedia Commons, as well as the slides. I had a blast attending DebConf '17 in Montreal, and presented about my efforts to bring back MediaWiki into Debian. The talks I went to were all fantastic, and got to meet some amazing people. But the best…
This is the second year I haven't been able to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon due to conflicts with my school schedule (I finish at the end of June). So instead I decided I would try and accomplish a large-ish project that same weekend, but at home. I'm probably more likely…
I've submitted a talk to Wikimania titled apt install mediawiki. It's about getting the MediaWiki package back into Debian, and efforts to improve the overall process. If you're interested, sign up on the submissions page :)
Barring any bugs, the last set of changes to the MediaWiki Debian package for the stretch release landed earlier this month. There are some documentation changes, and updates for changes to other, related packages. One of the other changes is the addition of a "powered by Debian" footer icon (drawn…
Today texvc was re-accepted for inclusion into Debian. texvc is a TeX validator and converter than can be used with the Math extension to generate PNGs of math equations. It had been removed from Jessie when MediaWiki itself was removed. However, a texvc package is still useful for those who…
In MediaWiki 1.28, MaxSem improved diff limits in the pure PHP diff implementation that ships with MediaWiki core. However Wikimedia and other larger wikis use a PHP extension called wikidiff2, for better performance and additional support for Japanese, Chinese, and Thai. wikidiff2 1.4.1 is now available in Debian unstable and…