15 years since my first Wikipedia edit
15 years ago yesterday was my first edit to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%E2%80%9307_San_Jose_Sharks_season&diff=prev&oldid=122614698It's been a wild ride ever since.
Posts tagged: wikipedia
Meeting Chris Smalls
Got to meet Chris Smalls, founder of the #Amazon Labor Union, today, who coincidentally has a new freely-licensed #Wikipedia photo and voice sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_SmallsPhotos are free for anyone to reuse, with attribution (CC-BY-SA 4.0): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chris_Smalls
How to mirror the Russian Wikipedia with Debian and Kiwix
It has been reported that the Russian government has threatened to block access to Wikipedia for documenting narratives that do not agree with the official position of the Russian government. One of the anti-censorship strategies I've been working on is Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader (and plenty of other content…
Building fast Wikipedia bots in Rust
Lately I've been working on mwbot-rs, a framework to write bots and tools in Rust. My main focus is for things related to Wikipedia, but all the code is generic enough to be used by any modern (1.35+) MediaWiki installation. One specific feature of mwbot-rs I want to highlight today…
Did you know...about Tokio?
From Wikipedia's homepage: "Did you know...that the #Tokio platform for the #Rust programming language uses a work stealing scheduler?"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_(software)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_stealing
Fearless concurrency in Wikipedia bots
I'm about 70% done rewriting one of my Wikipedia bots into Rust from Python. Reduced the runtime from 12+ hours to under 10 minutes.I suspect the final runtime will end up being no more than 15-20 minutes.Yay for fearless concurrency ^.^
Pageviews on the "Ship of Theseus" article
Pageviews on the "Ship of Theseus" article have been sitting at ~1,000/day until dramatically shooting up 40x when mentioned by The Vision in the WandaVision season finale!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
That time I broke Wikipedia, but only for vandals
As one of the top contributors to MediaWiki, the free wiki engine that powers Wikipedia, I'm often asked how I got started. To celebrate Wikipedia's 20th birthday, here's that unfortuante story. In late 2012, I was a bored college student who was spending most of his time editing Wikipedia. I…
Skip Mobile Wikipedia 0.2.1
New bugfix release for my Skip Mobile Wikipedia addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/skip-mobile-wikipedia/It's fully compatible with Firefox for Android if you always want to use the desktop Wikipedia view on your phone. Despite the name, it supports all Wikimedia wikis.Today's release, 0.2.1, fixes wikidata.org support.
How many legs does a horse have?
How many legs does a horse have? Google thinks the answer is six.Good job Wikipedia?
The importance of Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl, sitting right of center on my "favorite books" shelf. Nearly two decades later, the Artemis Fowl movie is finally happening. It's hard for me to overstate how important Artemis Fowl has been to me. One of my friends asked me if I saw the trailer today and I…
Improving quality and maintenance of election result boxes on Wikipedia
I've spent a decent amount of time reading Wikipedia articles about Senate, House, and state races this week. And...there were inconsistencies. Specifically in the election box result templates: That's what it looked like before I updated the article to use my template instead. There are a few different issues. First,…
Firefox Add-on to skip mobile Wikipedia redirect
Skip Mobile Wikipedia on Firefox Add-ons Lately, I've been reading Wikipedia on my phone significantly more than I used to. I get 15 minutes on the train each morning, which makes for some great reading time. But when I'm on my phone, Wikipedia redirects to the mobile website. I'm sure…
So-called "Wikipedia: The Game"
If you go to all this effort to make a game, how do you get the domain name wrong???
World Day Against Cyber Censorship
Improved an old article I wrote, Project Shield, to contribute to World Day Against Cyber Censorship.