So-called "Wikipedia: The Game"
If you go to all this effort to make a game, how do you get the domain name wrong???
Posts about MediaWiki, Wikipedia, and everything else wiki related
MediaWiki 1.27 LTS is now in Debian unstable!
MediaWiki 1.27 LTS is now in Debian unstable! https://tracker.debian.org/news/783855
MediaWiki 1.27 LTS on PHP 7
Teaser of MediaWiki 1.27 LTS on PHP 7 using a Debian package!
My Wikimedia Hackathon from home project
My Wikimedia-hackathon-from-home project was merged today: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/280595 \o/
MediaWiki needs more feelings
MediaWiki needs more feelings: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085173.html
World Day Against Cyber Censorship
Improved an old article I wrote, Project Shield, to contribute to World Day Against Cyber Censorship.
Wikipedia iOS app opt-in for usage reports
New Wikipedia iOS app update asks you to opt-in to sending usage reports. That's awesome. When is it coming to the Android app? :-)
What is the Crisis?
The following is my answer to a question asked of board candidates in the current ASBS election. I'd like to be able to discuss what I posted without making it look like I'm canvassing or something. You can read what other candidates said on Meta-Wiki. Q. One candidate stated: "WMF…
I'm running for the WMF board of trustees
What the title says. You can read my candidacy on Meta-Wiki, and ask questions on the talk page!
The future of Echo
Echo (aka "Notifications") is the MediaWiki extension that provides a notifications framework for other features to use, as well as some "core" notification types. It's had a tumultuous history ever since it was deployed to Wikimedia wikis in 2013. To figure out where Echo should go, I think we have…
Why I am still here.
This is a follow up to my probably depressing blog post on Friday, entitled "Why am I still here?" I think I figured out the answer, it's a lot of different things! Because we give a damn. Because if I left, I'd still spend my days lurking on IRC, fixing…
Why am I still here?
Honestly, I'm not sure. I'm not working at the WMF for the money. And it's not because my job is fun - it stopped being fun a few months ago. I'm mostly still here because I don't really have anything else to do right now. I've been doing this for…
MediaWiki now uses PHP [arrays, like, this]
MediaWiki now uses PHP [arrays, like, this]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/271208 Welcome to the future! ...or 2014 ;-)
WMF Office set up an intentionally slow network
WMF Office set up an intentionally slow network to test what the internet is like in worse places. Literal #firstworldproblems
Cross-wiki notifications on test wikis
As was teased in this week's tech news, cross-wiki notifications are now available as a BetaFeature on testwiki and test2wiki. Simply go to your preferences, enable "Enhanced notifications", trigger a notification for yourself on test2.wikipedia.org (e.g. log out and edit your talk page), and open up your notifications flyout! The…