Last week was busy — we had our Wikimedia Foundation all-staff meeting here in San Francisco, so some of our out-of-towners were in for planning and wackiness.
Plenty of new stuff to come over the next while…
This week so far:
- We’re starting up techblog.wikimedia.org as a more focused place for Wikimedia tech staff and other MediaWiki core contributors to give updates on what’s going on. It’s still fresh and will receive some visual style lovin’ soon. :)
- Uploads of TIFF files are now enabled (with limitations; so far no thumbnailing) on test and Commons by request of folks doing image restoration work. Improved support for TIFF and other work formats (like XCF) is being investigated.
- Image file renaming is now enabled for sysops on Wikimedia wikis.
Coming soon…
- A big code review update and bump to the live sites will come in the next couple days. Yeah, yeah. :)
- Drafts extension will go live.
- Fixes for video on Firefox 3.1beta…
- Hopefully, more support for large file uploads — we’ll try some experimentation with upload-by-URL.
- Tomasz will be summarizing architecture work on the data dump design.
And I’ll have plenty more to blog about…