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.
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.
@nemobis Oh interesting, I was going to see if there was a task for doing just that! I do remember reading something about how it's hard to report it accurately — but even an estimate can be useful. Currently I run mwcli site:info but that's too annoying.
@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
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.
@183231bcb@miraheze reading this makes me wanna add yet another service to the group of transfem.org services, why is so much bad stuff happening recently 1. meta and their shit 2. multiple instances just exploding this year, 3. firefish main instances basicly dead, 4. firefish dev basicly in a limbo, now this