I was recently interviewed on Between the Brackets: A MediaWiki podcast: Episode 112 - Kunal Mehta. I'm the first ever repeat guest, my first appearance was in 2018 in Episode 9. You can listen through the web interface or in your favorite podcast client. Thanks to Yaron Koren for having…
Lately I've been working on mwbot-rs, a framework to write bots and tools in Rust. My main focus is for things related to Wikipedia, but all the code is generic enough to be used by any modern (1.35+) MediaWiki installation. One specific feature of mwbot-rs I want to highlight today…
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…
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…
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…
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…
