I had a wonderful time at the 2023 Wikimedia Hackthon in Athens, Greece, earlier this month. The best part was easily seeing old friends that I haven't met in person since probably 2018 and getting to hack and chat together. I also met a ton of new friends for the…
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently going through layoffs, reducing headcount by about 5%. I am disappointed that no public announcement has been made, rather people are finding out through rumor and backchannels. In February when I asked whether the WMF was planning layoffs at the "Conversation with the Trustees" event…
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts and provides other support for Wikipedia and its sibling projects, has been under fire recently for the messaging it uses in the infamous donation banners and the disconnect with how that funding is used. These criticisms are not particularly new, but the tension…
Unfortunately, I didn't make it onto the Wikimedia Foundation board, you can see the full results. In the first round I was behind by ~280 votes, which is pretty close considering nearly 6,000 votes were cast! I already said it, but I'm really thankful to everyone who supported me, whether…
While we're waiting for the results (September 21st at the earliest), I want to thank everyone who helped with my WMF Board candidacy. From the people who initially gave me the confidence to run, to the people who helped me get through the Affiliate round, and then the people who…
As I posted about earlier, the election for the WMF Board of Trustees is wrapping up. Today is the final day for voting, it closes at 23:59 September 6 UTC (in your local timezone). You should: Read about the candidates Vote! Tell other people to vote! Thank you to everyone…
I am currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board. You can read my answers to community questions and see the endorsements from other Wikimedians. Voting opens in a few hours and runs through September 6. The best way to support me in the election is: Vote using SecurePoll Rank me…
I'm running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board (again) with the goal of bringing some much needed technical experience: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates/Kunal_Mehta
It is surprisingly straightforward to move a mailing list from Google Groups to #Mailman 3Documented the entire process at
(This is my belated #newindebianbullseye post.) The latest version of the Debian distro, 11.0 aka Bullseye, was released last week and after a long absence, includes Kiwix! Previously in Debian 10/Buster, we only had the underlying C/C++ libraries available. If you're not familiar with it, Kiwix is an offline content…
New blog post about last month's #Wikimedia Datatcenter switchover: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/07/23/june-2021-data-center-switchover/"In June 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Site Reliability Engineering team switched most user traffic from our primary datacenter in Virginia (“eqiad”) to our secondary one in Texas (“codfw”). This is an exercise we’ve done multiple times over the past 5 years,…
It's official, #Wikimedia is moving to #LiberaChat / @liberachat I've set up most of #mediawiki (still missing one bot), which, according to ChanServ, was originally created on Freenode by @eloquence on Jan 02 20:06:07 2004 (17y 20w 2d ago)!!
The "soon" in "#Wikimedia will upgrade to #Mailman3 soon" has finally arrived!https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/We'll start migrating lists in a few days, some more details at: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094459.html (hopefully one of the last pipermail links I share)Shoutout to @ladsgroup for instigating this and really driving it forward!
#Mailman3 for #Wikimedia is ready for testing, see the announcement from @ladsgroup and myself: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-March/094382.htmlHopefully a step forward in making Wikimedia mailing lists more accessible.
Yesterday I was working on upgrading the servers that power Wikimedia's Docker registry (see T272550). Since these are virtual machines, I was just creating new ones and going to delete the old ones later (because VMs are cattle, not pets). We have a handy script to create new VMs, so…
