Give people early successes
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
Someone was wrong on the internet and I’ve taught basic coding to a lot of self-described non-developers
How to refresh cache in MediaWiki
· ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River
Caching can be super complicated in MediaWiki because there are many different types of cache. This article goes over what to do for each kind.
mwclient 0.11
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
mwclient 0.11 has released!
How to make Moorish 8-4
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
A tutorial for Moorish 8-4, a chainmaille weave I designed in 2016
Please use recentchanges
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River
The page MediaWiki:Sidebar is powered by other interface messages, use them!
Representing one-to-many relations
· ☕ 19 min read · ✍️ River
Several examples of video game mechanics that could be represented as one-to-many relations and how to do table design & queries
Introducing the SORCERER example wiki
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ River
Enjoy beautiful mspaint drawings and learn Cargo!
Notes on "Charlatan" by Pope Brock
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
John R. Brinkley is a fascinating historical figure whose biography feels too improbable to be true.
Notes on The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River
Some tables & lists of Wikipedia links that may help you while reading this fantastic book on the events leading up to World War I
What's up with Variables and Parsoid?
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
What you need to know about Parsoid development as it affects Extension:Variables
Book Review - Building a StoryBrand
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
A review of and some notes on "Building a StoryBrand"
Gadget - Copy title
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
A gadget that provides one-click buttons to copy the title or (or pageName) of a MediaWiki page
Style your code blocks with Pygments
· ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River
Customizing your view-page syntax highlighting in MediaWiki