Posts tagged: mediawiki

The future of Echo

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…

Future plans

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…

Cross-wiki notifications on test wikis

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…

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…