In the UseModWiki days, Wikipedia page titles were "CamelCase" and automatically linked (see CamelCase and Wikipedia). MediaWiki on the other hand uses the famous [[bracketed links]], aka "free links". For most uses, page titles are the primary identifier of a page, whether it's in URLs for external consumption or [[Page…
Today's #MediaWiki security release fixes a pretty bad wiki-leak: https://w.wiki/4ZAeThere's a pretty simple mitigation that can be applied via configuration in LocalSettings.php if you can't patch immediately.Fixes are out for Debian packages, the "official" Docker image, and should land in my Ubuntu PPA for focal/bionic shortly...
I wrote for the #Wikipedia Signpost this month about how #MediaWiki details with file uploads on the backend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-11-29/Technology_report
I just released version 0.2.0 of the mwapi_responses crate. It automatically generates Rust types based on the query parameters specified for use in MediaWiki API requests. If you're not familiar with the MediaWiki API, I suggest you play around with the API sandbox. It is highly dynamic, with the user…
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.
Long overdue, but I finally added a "thank you" page for all the people who helped out with the development of LibUp over the years: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/credits
I wrote for The Signpost this month, "The people who built Wikipedia, technically", filled with stories of Wikipedia's earliest days and how it grew into what it is today.Featuring interviews with @brion, @eloquence and more!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-01-31/Technology_report
I released 3.1.0 of my "grr" #Gerrit command line helper today to make it easier for repositories where the default branch isn't "master".https://crates.io/crates/gerrit-grr
As one of the top contributors to MediaWiki, the free wiki engine that powers Wikipedia, I'm often asked how I got started. To celebrate Wikipedia's 20th birthday, here's that unfortuante story. In late 2012, I was a bored college student who was spending most of his time editing Wikipedia. I…
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.
New #Rust project: https://gitlab.com/legoktm/mwapi_responses POC to provide strict typing for dynamic #MediaWiki API queries.Discussion at https://github.com/magnusmanske/mediawiki_rust/issues/19
I started porting my #Toolforge support library to #Rust: https://crates.io/crates/toolforgeDocs at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm/toolforge_library and of course https://docs.rs/toolforge/
Wikimedia CI now supports #rustlang projects! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256827#6396091It's simple for now: it'll run rustfmt, clippy, tests and then generate/publish coverage reports and documentation post-merge. More features/checks can be added as people need and request :)
Packages for the MediaWiki 1.31 LTS release are now available for the new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" release in my PPA. Please let me know if you run into any errors or issues. In the future these packages will be upgraded to the MediaWiki 1.35 LTS release, whenever that's…
For the past 5ish years, I've been working on a project called libraryupgrader (LibUp for short) to semi-automatically upgrade dependency libraries in the 900+ MediaWiki extension and related git repositories. For those that use GitHub, it's similar to the new dependabot tool, except LibUp is free software. One cool feature…
