Posts tagged: devsummit

2018 Wikimedia Developer Summit position paper

We have well established that volunteers are the lifeblood of the Wikimedia movement. We prioritize their contributions and work to ensure they are given the tools they need to succeed. But in the Wikimedia development community, we’ve neglected volunteers instead of nurturing them – and this is a serious problem…

2016 Wikimedia Developer Summit recap

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…

2016 Wikimedia Developer Summit

I'll be at the 2016 Architecture MediaWiki Wikimedia Developer Summit over the next week. I mainly want to talk to/nag people about: Configuration Extension management Librarization Composer (okay, not really that much) Wiki farms! "Global" and cross-wiki tools/tooling Why JSON is better than YAML (really) I've also proposed a session…