Wikipedia turned 15 last week. Aside from having my friends wish me a happy birthday, I also went to the party in San Francisco. I had a good time meeting up with some Wikimedians that I hadn't seen in a while, and also enjoyed the talks. My favorite was by User:Dreamyshade, who talked about "Stories from the weird old days". I'd recommend watching it if you have 30 minutes of free time :-)
And as always, new laptop sticker ^.^
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Had to walk up a mile long trail to create my first 1k MU field :D
A lot happened at the Wikimedia Developer Summit over the past week, I had a fantastic time and enjoyed getting to meet up with everyone again. Here's a quick recap:
- Learned about the status of the Differential migration, I feel more reassured about the workflow now, just not sure about when it's going to happen.
- Attended a very productive meeting with the MediaWiki Stakeholder's group, Mark (hexmode) has written up a good summary of the meeting. I'm optimistic about the future.
- Held an impromptu session about shadow namespaces, which left me with lots of questions to answer. I haven't had a chance to summarize the notes yet, will do so later this week.
- Had an exciting main room discussion about supporting non-Wikimedia installs of MediaWiki and our other software, which continued out into the hallways. I think we need to continue with more research and talking with hosting providers about how MediaWiki is actually used. For a while now I've been concerned with whether we're able to get our users to actually upgrade. WikiApiary says that 1.16.x is nearly as widely used as 1.25.x (the current legacy release).
- Had an early morning session about beta rollouts, usage of BetaFeatures, and communication channels.
- Attended the "software engineering" session about dependency injection and then SOA. I mainly just listened in this one.
- Went to a session by community liasons about interacting with communities and stuff. Also mainly just listened.
- Finally, had a really productive session led by bawolff about code review, and how we can improve the situation.
I hacked on quite a few different projects, more on that later :)
And, new laptop stickers ^.^
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New sticker ^.^ I'm ready for Wikipedia 15 now!
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My first Debian package! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mediawiki_1:1.25.5-1.html
Over the past few months I've been working on an updated Debian package for MediaWiki. After working with Luke, Faidon, Moritz, and a few others, we now have a mostly working package! It's being developed in Gerrit (the mediawiki/debian repository), so it hopefully will get more visibility, and we can keep it in sync with current development.
If you're interested in testing, I've uploaded it to people.wikimedia.org for now.
