I've submitted a talk to Wikimania titled apt install mediawiki. It's about getting the MediaWiki package back into Debian, and efforts to improve the overall process. If you're interested, sign up on the submissions page :)
Over the weekend I migrated legoktm.com and associated services over to a new server. It's powered by Debian Jessie instead of the slowly aging Ubuntu Trusty. Most services were migrated with no downtime by rsync'ing content over and the updating DNS. Only git.legoktm.com had some downtime due to needing to…
Barring any bugs, the last set of changes to the MediaWiki Debian package for the stretch release landed earlier this month. There are some documentation changes, and updates for changes to other, related packages. One of the other changes is the addition of a "powered by Debian" footer icon (drawn…
Today texvc was re-accepted for inclusion into Debian. texvc is a TeX validator and converter than can be used with the Math extension to generate PNGs of math equations. It had been removed from Jessie when MediaWiki itself was removed. However, a texvc package is still useful for those who…
In MediaWiki 1.28, MaxSem improved diff limits in the pure PHP diff implementation that ships with MediaWiki core. However Wikimedia and other larger wikis use a PHP extension called wikidiff2, for better performance and additional support for Japanese, Chinese, and Thai. wikidiff2 1.4.1 is now available in Debian unstable and…
MediaWiki 1.27 LTS is now in Debian unstable! https://tracker.debian.org/news/783855
Teaser of MediaWiki 1.27 LTS on PHP 7 using a Debian package!
My Wikimedia-hackathon-from-home project was merged today: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/280595 \o/
MediaWiki needs more feelings: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085173.html
New Wikipedia iOS app update asks you to opt-in to sending usage reports. That's awesome. When is it coming to the Android app? :-)
Echo (aka "Notifications") is the MediaWiki extension that provides a notifications framework for other features to use, as well as some "core" notification types. It's had a tumultuous history ever since it was deployed to Wikimedia wikis in 2013. To figure out where Echo should go, I think we have…
MediaWiki now uses PHP [arrays, like, this]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/271208 Welcome to the future! ...or 2014 ;-)
WMF Office set up an intentionally slow network to test what the internet is like in worse places. Literal #firstworldproblems
I've decided to go back to school starting in April for the spring quarter. I'm tenatively going to be studying journalism, because that seems interesting to me right now. We'll see how long that lasts. ;-) At the same time I'm also going to be switching to a part-time contract…
As was teased in this week's tech news, cross-wiki notifications are now available as a BetaFeature on testwiki and test2wiki. Simply go to your preferences, enable "Enhanced notifications", trigger a notification for yourself on test2.wikipedia.org (e.g. log out and edit your talk page), and open up your notifications flyout! The…
