My first Debian package!
Originally posted on Twitter. My first Debian package! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mediawiki_1:1.25.5-1.html
Posts tagged: mediawiki
Packaging MediaWiki for Debian
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…
2016 Wikimedia Developer Summit
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…
Life happens
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!
Originally posted on Twitter. My first CVE: CVE-2015-8007!
Introducing mwmon
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…