Brion VIBBER

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

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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 2019

• /EmbedScript 2019 reconception of old sandboxing ideas

Stuff for 2016

• /Secure code modules through iframe sandboxing
• /ResourceLoader and latency
• /Media handler and renderer thoughts

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

• http://freshmeat.net/