britta

7 ms·

1.
by britta 23d ago
Also, in case anyone is inspired, Wikimedia Foundation happens to have a SRE position open: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/7972965
2.
by britta 23d ago
Brief technical writeup after a similar event in 2009 when Michael Jackson died: https://wikitech-static.wikimedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_e...
3.
by britta 1mo ago
I’ve compiled the entire sordid history of TreasuryDirect authentication in their Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreasuryDirect
4.
by britta 2mo ago
You might find it interesting to read some of the 2026-2027 infrastructure OKRs: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...
5.
by britta 2mo ago
Come help! Here's the August 2026 unreferenced articles backlog drive, with instructions and a leaderboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unrefere...
6.
by britta 4mo ago
If it were that easy to recruit new dedicated volunteers who would contribute a non-trivial amount of constructive work and stick with it over time, I'd be delighted and relieved, but it's not. Contributing to Wikipedia, at the le
7.
by britta 4mo ago
The solidarity petition is public ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_... ), and it includes a section with statistics summarizing the contributions of editors who have signed the petition, whic
8.
by britta 4mo ago
There are a bunch of research papers that compare Wikipedia and Grokipedia in some depth, and they've found and interpreted a lot of interesting differences. A couple of recaps from the Wikipedia Signpost, which is the internal newslet
9.
by britta 4mo ago
I appreciate that this article actually cites some of the relevant discussions. Wikipedia community processes are unusual in that they are largely public, including that foundation staff members respond to community questions in public, so
10.
by britta 4mo ago
https://www.eff.org/pages/internet-still-works-wikipedia-def... : "A decade ago, Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, received 304 requests to alter or remove content over a two-year period,
11.
by britta 4mo ago
FYI, I took Plucker out of the lead in November, after a PG volunteer recommended that update on the article talk page. Plucker is currently only mentioned in a sentence about formats offered in 2009. Happy to make other updates! Writing sp
12.
by britta 4mo ago
My late family member was a technical editor at Bell Labs, and I inherited a few of his papers, and his internal resume is truly boring in many places: “From October 1970 through December 1970, served as a member of the Western Electric Com
13.
by britta 5mo ago
Aw yeah! I’d love to see somebody from the DevTeam talk about this, or literally anything else they might want to talk about, at the Roguelike Celebration in October ( https://www.roguelike.club/ ), if anyone has a connection
14.
by britta 5mo ago
Come help! When you come across a math article on Wikipedia that you find difficult to understand, consider writing a talk page comment with specific, polite, constructive feedback. That can help other editors figure out how to improve the
15.
by britta 5mo ago
Wikipedia has a range of protective mechanisms that admins can apply to high-traffic or frequently vandalized articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy "Protection restricts the modificat
16.
by britta 5mo ago
I want the equivalent of Mythos for Wikipedia - I want world-class tooling that helps human editors efficiently find, prioritize, and mitigate attempts to add deceptive and low-quality content - and I know it's possible to build this k
17.
by britta 1y ago
For anyone at GitHub looking at this thread: please update your documentation page about how to report abuse ( https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safe... ). I tried to follow the instructions, b
18.
by britta 2y ago
The team is a mix of employees and contractors. They also offer customers (government agencies who use their service) the option to use Bing results or their in-house Elasticsearch results: https://search.gov/admin-center&#x
19.
by britta 5y ago
It's not too late! Grab a ticket and come on in: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roguelike-celebration-2021-tick...
20.
by britta 7y ago
The Forest Service worked with 18F on this Open Forest project to enable people to buy Christmas tree permits online, which uses United States Web Design System components: https://openforest.fs.usda.gov/christmas-trees&#x2
21.
by britta 9y ago
You need to move to DC to work for USDS ( https://www.usds.gov/join#relocation ), but you can work for 18F from anywhere in the US ( https://18f.gsa.gov/join/ ). The login.gov team includes both USDS and 1
22.
by britta 10y ago
I work at 18F but am speaking about my experience here and experiences heard from coworkers, not officially on behalf of 18F. Applying to 18F didn't require a drug test for me. The application process asks this question in the backgrou
23.
by britta 10y ago
Yes, if a company receiving this letter isn't quite sure what level of detail the NHSTA needs, they could make a polite call to the explicitly-listed "call us if you have questions" person and ask about the expected scope, to
24.
by britta 10y ago
Aw, thanks for posting this and being excited about it! This is a labor of love organized by my friend Noah with help from a few other friends and me, just for fun since we love playing roguelikes. We did sell out of tickets; our very graci
25.
by britta 10y ago
That's just the schedule page - sorry this is confusing! The intro page ( https://roguelike.club/ ) has the date - tomorrow (Saturday), September 17.
26.
by britta 10y ago
You might find this chart interesting for thinking about the uses of discussion outside of courts: https://twitter.com/scriptjunkie1/status/739545814150746113
27.
by britta 10y ago
I'd encourage you all to read the draft source code policy ( https://sourcecode.cio.gov/ ) and consider commenting on it or responding to existing comments yourself (due by Monday night at midnight Eastern U.S. time): h
28.
by britta 11y ago
"Guys" as a fairly neutral term for a mixed-gender group of people or group of women is a very very informal usage; it makes sense that a group of really close friends might choose to use it with each other in a casual and affecti
29.
by britta 11y ago
They might be interested in Code for America's Brigade groups, which are civic technology volunteer groups that meet regularly in many cities (including outside the US): https://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/
30.
by britta 11y ago
These UK and US government tech efforts have a friendly relationship: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/09/24/uk-and-us-meet-fo...

More ›