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Starting once more
I have tried it many times before, but I guess you have to persist. I find blogging difficult. I often spend too long on writing it and don't post often enough. Twitter is more my thing, because it is...
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Community documentation for Wikimedia Mobile
As some may know, I have been working a lot on Wikimedia Mobile as of late. It's interesting to work on this software, because it has to support so many devices, languages and wiki's. So far the...
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HTML 5 video player for mediawiki now with fullscreen support
Michael Dale has been working hard on a new media player for the mediawiki projects. This media player is based on the HTML 5<video> tag. You can compare it to the demo players of Youtube and...
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Video On Wikipedia
This week at SXSW (South by Southwest Conferences & Festivals), the Open Video Alliance presented a new campaign and portal for video on Wikipedia. The project is called "Let's get video on...
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Template editor
The Wikipedia Usability Initiative is finally making good progress on their template folding and template editor. Much of what the project has been doing with the edit screen has been in preparation of...
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April fools' continues to fool
Wikipedia has developed this nice tradition that on April Fools' Day, content on the Main Page should be TRUE and link to actual encyclopedic articles, instead of being simple jokes. So today's...
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I am now a MediaWiki developer (and Commons admin)
I have been filing and maintaining bug reports in MediaWiki for a while now, trying to communicate issues found by the editor community back to the developer community. Over time, increasingly I have...
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How the smallest bugs can take the most time to solve
For the past few weeks, I have been fixing problems that I run into while testing some of the new video tools that Michael Dale has been developing for the Wikimedia Foundation. As with any new...
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Printing Wikipedia
Last year saw the launch of book printing for Wikipedia articles. A very nice feature that allows you to create a collection of articles and print them as a book. Since yesterday you can even get...
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Dutch 2011 Hack-a-ton a great success
Wikipedia birthday cakes during the celebrations in Amsterdam (Derk-Jan Hartman, CC-BY-SA 3.0)So here we are... One day after the 10 year anniversary of Wikipedia and I think that I'm not the only...
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How IE6 is still causing headaches and bothering the rest of us
So you have this well known security issue called content sniffing in MS IE 6. No one really cares about that anymore right? Unfortunately, when you are a top 5 website, then you kinda have to care,...
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