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…
If you go to all this effort to make a game, how do you get the domain name wrong???
MediaWiki 1.27 LTS is now in Debian unstable! https://tracker.debian.org/news/783855
Teaser of MediaWiki 1.27 LTS on PHP 7 using a Debian package!
My Wikimedia-hackathon-from-home project was merged today: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/280595 \o/
MediaWiki needs more feelings: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085173.html
Improved an old article I wrote, Project Shield, to contribute to World Day Against Cyber Censorship.
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? :-)
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…
What the title says. You can read my candidacy on Meta-Wiki, and ask questions on the talk page!
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…
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…
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…