Kiwix is an offline content reader, best known for distributing copies of Wikipedia. I have been maintaining it in Debian since 2017. This year most of the work has been keeping all the packages up to date in anticipation of next year's Debian 12 Bookworm release, including several transitions for…
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…
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…
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
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…
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.
