Mediawiki experiments

I've been working on a couple of mediawiki based wikis recently.

• Guide to Setting Up StopForumSpam Extension on MediaWiki is a missing guide on how to set up this useful extension correctly.
• [FIXED] Mediawiki: There Is Currently No Text in This Page is a worklog of digging into a slightly corrupted database.
• MediaWiki Extension: BlocklistEmailDomains is about an extension I made (!) — the process and the result.

More tech things

Well... 

• Doing 5 Years of Sysadmin Work in 5 Hours (Without LLMs) - some documentation of how I upgraded a very old peertube server
• Simple CI/CD - if you have a website or such you might find this useful to set up CI/CD without requiring a third party
• HTTPS SVCB Record in OctoDNS with Bind - extremely specific documentation post
• My Email to CCI against Android Developer Verification - in which I snitch on Google to Competition Commission of India

Do you want to learn some programming?

If you find all of this programming stuff fascinating but haven't found a community to ask beginner level questions or share your successes/failures, then you might want to read this post: (Re-)Introducing Purposeful Programming Community

If you want to learn how to host your own website, I wrote an (?)approachable guide to self-hosting on FSCI wiki.

Caste and Mental Health

I've got a couple of links about mental health and caste.

• Nilesh Mohite's interview titled Why Dalits Mental Health Is a National Emergency? (mostly in Hindi)
• Charan Mahananda's article titled Questioned Merit: The Mental Health Cost of Caste in Education.

That's it for this week. Thanks for reading and remaining as subscribers.