Kiwix is an offline content reader, best known for distributing copies of Wikipedia. I have been maintaining it in Debian since 2017. This year most of the work has been keeping all the packages up to date in anticipation of next year's Debian 12 Bookworm release, including several transitions for…
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…
(This is my belated #newindebianbullseye post.) The latest version of the Debian distro, 11.0 aka Bullseye, was released last week and after a long absence, includes Kiwix! Previously in Debian 10/Buster, we only had the underlying C/C++ libraries available. If you're not familiar with it, Kiwix is an offline content…
The latest #MediaWiki security release is now in #Debian stable/buster, time to update: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2021/msg00070.htmlUpdated packages for buster-backports, bullseye and my Ubuntu PPA will be available shortly.
Last week I officially joined the Site Reliability Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be working with the Service Operations team, which "...takes care of public and “user-visible” services." I'm glad to be back at the WMF; I had originally started working there in 2013 but recently took a…
The latest #MediaWiki security release is now available in #Debian https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00174.htmlI also updated the packages in my PPA as well.The newest stable release, 1.35, should be ready for unstable later today or tomorrow.
