Since simon04 and jon replaced ooui with codex in #mediawiki’s mediaviewer during #wmhack, ive gotten involved a bit, and we are ripping this thing apart at moment.
Also doing a hard attack on the gigantic ticket graveyard that no one seems to have dared touch since the 2015 team dissolve.
Okay, I have settled on #MediaWiki for hosting my campaign setting.
I am curious, though - is there any good MediaWiki extension for displaying zoomable images?
I'm not looking for a full-fledged GIS system or anything like that - I just want to use a single, oversized map image which is too large to fit on a single screen, but where people could zoom in and out and pan with simple mouse movements.
(If it is compatible with Image Maps, it would be a definite plus.) #wiki#wikipedia
Got #mediawiki running locally today 😀 was hard for me, but just because still not experienced with databases. A lot of work has gone into that code base...
I want a little thing in the footer of my #MediaWiki that shows me a countdown of the job queue. I know that's because I'm doing silly things with too many queries on a server that can't cope. But still, it'd be funner than "just waiting a bit" before I smash F5. I wonder if there's an extension somewhere that'd be amenable to such a thing.
@jonny I feel like you will appreciate the gentle absurdity of what your #MediaWiki instance does when one loads it without JavaScript enabled
Screen recording of a MediaWiki page summarizing the fediverse event #Monsterdon. There is a loading icon pulsating in the top right, causing the entire page to gently wiggle up and down
I were at #FOSDEM to show and discuss #fedora#languages#translation progress, and instead I went to #OFFDEM in which I had a really pleasant time, unfortunately, I were not able to stay on Sunday for personal reasons...
I'll try talking here about these data, until I consolidate this in a more structured way.
I a reminder, my goal is to measure the efficiency of the way we work (translator communities, devs and distribution), to open discussion.
Hey open source friends! Do you know of any projects that maintain (or help their community maintain) a collection of plugins/extensions/sub-projects/packages/etc that work with the project?
I'm starting a tradition of #FossFriday where I shout out a favorite free/open source project. (Yes, I'm aware it's Saturday, so it should be #OssSaturday but damn it I want to do Fridays.)
Oh jeez, I completely forgot last week. Gonna set a reminder.
This week's #FossFriday#FlossFriday shout out is a three-for - three open source projects for knowledge management that I've tried out over the last year or so: MediaWiki, Outline, and Logseq.
#MediaWiki - the software that runs Wikipedia. A huge community ecosystem offers lots of help and customization. Great for collaboration & versioning, though both UX and devX have significant learning curves: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Last week I told you about the change of theme which I applied to my personal blog. It seems that I was not done then.
On a different server I host the SlackDocs Wiki (https://docs.slackware.com/) and a lot more than that Wiki actually; docs.slackware.com is the same host which also provides you with the slackware.nl mirrors. Th
Out of all the things that I have to do on my websites, upgrading Mediawiki is still probably my least favourite.
It's not easy even if you've done it many times before. Extensions break and it's not easy to find older versions, which you need if you're upgrading from anything other than the last two releases. Non-LTS releases are also not supported for very long (12-18 months) and there is quite often a significant change that breaks an extension or core function.
Upgrading has definitely become better and easier since I started using Mediawiki in 2013 and it is still a great piece of software. But I do think that more needs to be done to make it friendlier to non-developers.
Whenever someone asks me about my time at Facebook, I like to share this pair of photos. One from when I started, and the other from when I left about 6 years later.
It seems very focused on two extreme #FreeSoftware cases, the very large projects/entities and the individual hobbyist. What about everything in between (of which #Debian has many)?