Starting once more
I have tried it many times before, but I guess you have to persist. I find blogging difficult. I often spend too long on writing it and don't post often enough. Twitter is more my thing, because it is...
View ArticleCommunity documentation for Wikimedia Mobile
As some may know, I have been working a lot on Wikimedia Mobile as of late. It's interesting to work on this software, because it has to support so many devices, languages and wiki's. So far the...
View ArticleHTML 5 video player for mediawiki now with fullscreen support
Michael Dale has been working hard on a new media player for the mediawiki projects. This media player is based on the HTML 5<video> tag. You can compare it to the demo players of Youtube and...
View ArticleVideo On Wikipedia
This week at SXSW (South by Southwest Conferences & Festivals), the Open Video Alliance presented a new campaign and portal for video on Wikipedia. The project is called "Let's get video on...
View ArticleTemplate editor
The Wikipedia Usability Initiative is finally making good progress on their template folding and template editor. Much of what the project has been doing with the edit screen has been in preparation of...
View ArticleApril fools' continues to fool
Wikipedia has developed this nice tradition that on April Fools' Day, content on the Main Page should be TRUE and link to actual encyclopedic articles, instead of being simple jokes. So today's...
View ArticleI am now a MediaWiki developer (and Commons admin)
I have been filing and maintaining bug reports in MediaWiki for a while now, trying to communicate issues found by the editor community back to the developer community. Over time, increasingly I have...
View ArticleHow the smallest bugs can take the most time to solve
For the past few weeks, I have been fixing problems that I run into while testing some of the new video tools that Michael Dale has been developing for the Wikimedia Foundation. As with any new...
View ArticlePrinting Wikipedia
Last year saw the launch of book printing for Wikipedia articles. A very nice feature that allows you to create a collection of articles and print them as a book. Since yesterday you can even get...
View ArticleDutch 2011 Hack-a-ton a great success
Wikipedia birthday cakes during the celebrations in Amsterdam (Derk-Jan Hartman, CC-BY-SA 3.0)So here we are... One day after the 10 year anniversary of Wikipedia and I think that I'm not the only...
View ArticleHow IE6 is still causing headaches and bothering the rest of us
So you have this well known security issue called content sniffing in MS IE 6. No one really cares about that anymore right? Unfortunately, when you are a top 5 website, then you kinda have to care,...
View ArticleMediaWiki; from svn to git & gerrit and a bit of math
Been a while since I wrote here. I wanted to discuss a great change that has come to MediaWiki, and it is the adaptation of Git and Gerrit over our old Subversion system. It has been discussed at...
View ArticleBleeding edge or is it ?
As most people know, Wikipedia usually runs the bleeding edge code of MediaWiki. Currently new versions are deployed every 2 weeks. This is great, necessary and sometimes annoying for Wikipedians....
View Article5 years of Article message boxes
Do you recognize these boxes ? Most likely you do. These are the very recognizable "amboxes", which is a short for "Article message boxes". They are often visible at the top of articles in Wikipedia...
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