I'm alive

I swear I’m alive! I just kind of disappeared for a bit. School got really busy, and then I ran off to Paris for the Multimedia Usability Project Meeting. It was massively productive, and I got to meet a lot of really cool people I’ve known for a long time online but never met in [...]

On Wikitext

Wikitext is a monstrous and ferocious beast. Born from a small set of markup choices for text formatting, it has since grown to a plethora of markup and functions. It’s gotten to the point where people are afraid to edit, due to the nearly insurmountable hurdle of learning the syntax. The problem with wikitext isn’t [...]

How to not write a skin

I absolutely love Vector. I think it’s a fantastic refresh of the classic Monobook skin and I wouldn’t mind seeing it as the default skin for MW one day. However, I think it was written very poorly.