A few years ago I dove deeply into the wiki ecosystem and learned all about MediaWiki, its plugins and various extensions. I started a wiki to index all of the other wiki’s called WikiApiary. The wiki movement was huge, and it still has a tremendous amount of energy and …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Envisioning a Cloud Native WikiVery cool Lambda tool. Needed this for my WikiApiary project.
The main thing I’ve learned from my WikiApiary project is how horribly bad the spam bot problem is in the MediaWiki world.
StickerMule had a great deal a couple of weeks ago so I had these fun WikiApiary clear vinyl stickers made. They really came out great!
If you want one for your laptop or whatever send me a note and I’ll put one in the mail.
A while back @Waldyrious posed this question about WikiApiary. @WikiApiary in the lists of wikis by number of articles https://t.co/dKeb8eowPE, why not show the article count rather than the page count? — Waldir Pimenta (@waldyrious) March 5, 2014 The full answer is actually …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Why WikiApiary uses pages and not articlesTried to get the new WikiApiary Celery bots live tonight but “daemonizing” celeryd got the best of me for tonight.
I’m really intrigued by what Keybase.io is doing with identity. The ability to cryptographically prove your identity on the web without a centralized party like Twitter or Facebook owning the approval process is a needed function. I setup my profile and you can now prove on your …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Keybase and MediaWikiAt least now the code doesn’t look like it was made by a monkey.
Paul commenting on the structure of my WikiApiary code after doing some refactoring.
I host all of my personal projects on two servers at Linode. Last week Linode announced new “cloud servers” with SSD’s, double RAM and a new chip architecture. I migrated both of my hosts over to the new servers that evening and the performance impact was immediately noticeable. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Huge Impact of Linode Cloud UpdatesSubmitted pull request to add WikiApiary extension counts to Shields.io!
