User:Brion VIBBER

New official work user account: User:Brion Vibber (WMF)

Note to self, note to others:  Always remember to assume good faith!

I'm currently the Lead Software Architect for the Wikimedia Foundation. I've been around for a while.


 * I make no guarantees that things I write have any positive or negative relation to do with any company or person who might pay me; I am a human being with free will and will write on any subject I please within the confines of reasonableness.

Please report bugs to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ to make sure we see them!

You can usually find me directly during the day on Wikimedia's IRC channels, especially #wikimedia-dev.

Stuff for 2015

 * /2015 scratchpad

Stuff for 2011

 * Future
 * /Touch testing

Silly ideas

 * Global session threat assessment
 * Bitfields for rev_deleted
 * Hiding revisions
 * Markup spec
 * Unicode normalization considerations
 * FileStore
 * Watchlist subscriptions
 * Snapshot work branch
 * /tasks for noobs
 * Mobile browser testing
 * Extension:CentralAuth
 * /Media codec alternatives

Templates/pages to change on release

 * News
 * Template:MediaWiki News (move old news into the 'older news' section)
 * Upgrade instructions
 * Create new Manual:Upgrading to 1.x page if needed
 * Manual:Upgrading - change redirect if new upgrade page created
 * Release notes
 * Important Release Notes
 * For points release, add to Release notes/1.x
 * For new versions create a new Release notes/1.x page and add to Release notes
 * Automated
 * Template:Current versions
 * Template:MW quick download
 * legacy
 * Template:MW legacy release date
 * Template:MW legacy branch number
 * Template:MW legacy release number
 * Template:MW legacy release svn
 * Template:MW legacy release link
 * stable
 * Template:MW stable release date
 * Template:MW stable branch number
 * Template:MW stable branch svn
 * Template:MW stable release number
 * Template:MW stable release svn
 * Template:MW stable release link


 * bugzilla versions
 * http://freshmeat.net/