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…
My first Debian package! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mediawiki_1:1.25.5-1.html
Over the past few months I've been working on an updated Debian package for MediaWiki. After working with Luke, Faidon, Moritz, and a few others, we now have a mostly working package! It's being developed in Gerrit (the mediawiki/debian repository), so it hopefully will get more visibility, and we can…
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…
It's been a while since I last blogged, so here's a quick summary of what's been going on (totally out of order): Joined the Let's Encrypt beta, all of legoktm.com is now HTTPS-only. Same with the Wikimedia DC farm. Uncyclomedia is currently transitioning. Reached level 8 as an Ingress agent.…
My first CVE: CVE-2015-8007!
Ocassionally some of the MediaWiki wikis I help maintain would go down, usually due to heavy traffic or a DoS of some kind. Sometimes Apache would be overloaded, or even MySQL being hammered (I'm looking at you DPL). When this was happening around WikiConference USA time to that wiki, I…
Nothing like accidentally taking down Wikimedia sites to make a bad day even worse: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/20151014-MediaWiki Bright side: new t-shirt!
I announced earlier today that PHP CodeSniffer is now a voting job against all submitted MediaWiki core patches. This is the result of a lot of hard work by a large number of people. Work on PHPCS compliance usually comes in bursts, most recently I was motivated after a closing…
This year for Google Summer of Code, I co-mentored with YuviPanda a project to build a cross-wiki watchlist that uses OAuth and runs on Tool Labs. Sitic did a fantastic job on the project, and the final result, crosswatch, is amazing. I use it quite frequently, and aside from the…
