Branch merge

Also briefly (I didn’t blog this already?), I merged the maintenance branch in r54225! Had some cleanup (ok, a lot of cleanup), but everything seems to be ok now. Last major goals with this: finish cleanup of scripts to subclass Maintenance, phase out WMF-specific crap, remove last of the ancient and unused stuff, overhaul update [...]

Quality documentation

We’ve had a bug about documentation in Mediawiki open since August 10, 2004. In fact, it was the first bug ever filed when Mediawiki moved over to using Bugzilla. In the past 5 years, MediaWiki has grown in quite a few ways. There’s more developers than ever before committing code faster than ever before (a [...]

Twiddling your thumbs

Wow, when enwiki decides to waste time, they certainly don’t half-ass it.