In March 2018, Facebook began automatically rewriting links to use HTTPS using the HSTS preload list. Now all Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia) do the same. If you're not familiar with it, the HSTS preload list tells browsers (and other clients) that the website should only be visited over HTTPS, not…
I've been using the JetBrains IDE PHPStorm ever since I really got started in MediaWiki development in 2013. Its symbol analysis and autocomplete is fantastic, and the built-in inspections generally caught most coding issues while you were still writing the code. But, it's also non-free software, which has always made…
Originally posted on Twitter. Teaser of MediaWiki 1.27 LTS on PHP 7 using a Debian package!
Originally posted on Twitter. MediaWiki now uses PHP [arrays, like, this]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/271208 Welcome to the future! ...or 2014 ;-)
