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Hi, I'm Legoktm aka Kunal Mehta! I am a recovering MediaWiki developer, inactive journalist, and free culture/knowledge/software enthusiast. I'm an administrator on the
English Wikipedia
and
MediaWiki.org
, and formerly served as a bureaucrat and administrator on
Wikidata
. I am a volunteer
Wikimedia sysadmin
with root access, plus a Toolforge admin, and happy to help out whenever needed.
I started editing in 2007, initially focused on ice hockey articles. I quickly became hooked with some more technical aspects of the site, developing
Legobot
, and later becoming a contributor and maintainer of
Pywikibot
. In 2012, after getting annoyed that people weren't addressing my Bugzilla reports, I sent in my first patch to MediaWiki and promptly
broke the AbuseFilter
for 30 minutes. Still, I was hooked. I joined the WMF in late 2013, initially working on
MassMessage
and
Notifications
(then known as Echo). I picked up
global rename
and led the technical work for
SUL finalization
(with a
great team of people
). I continued developing cross-wiki features like global.js/css,
global user pages
, and
cross-wiki notifications
. During my most recent WMF stint I worked on upgrading to
Mailman 3.0
and re-enabling
musical score support
in a secure manner. None of this was done solely by me, it was always through collaboration with others. Most recently I served a term on the
Wikimedia New York City
board and helped run the
Commons Picture of the Year
contest.
I co-run
Wikis World
, you can
follow me there
. Currently I'm working on a
new bot framework in Rust
and thinking about what else I want to do.
To simplify the technical contribution process, I pushed and integrated tools like
MediaWiki-CodeSniffer
and
phan
, as well as creating others, like
codesearch
and
LibUp
. In other "free" circles I am a
Debian Developer
, contributor to
Kiwix
, and help run some other wikis. Professionally, I’m privileged to continue the work that the late Aaron Swartz started in
SecureDrop
, building and supporting software to protect whistleblowers and journalists.
Other projects
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Bots:
Legobot on English Wikipedia
TFA Protector Bot on English Wikipedia
HaleBot on English Wikipedia
(database reports)
KrinkleBot on Commons
wikibugs on IRC
ircservserv on IRC
wiki-mjolnir on Matrix
mwparserfromhell
contributor and promoter
Toolforge tools:
checker
Are you a Content Contributor?
(parody, down)
MediaWiki code coverage tracking
New users
(plaintext list for copy/pasting)
Temporary/new logo testing
LDAP browser
apt repository browser
w.wiki statistics
MediaWiki packaging tracker
Identify potential Gerrit reviewers
Extension registration wall of super powers!
Prose size
Wiki streaks
Wikitext deprecation process
(paused)
...more in Hay's Directory
MediaWiki extensions (not mentioned above):
BounceHandler
(mentored GSoC project)
GlobalPreferences
(developed initial prototype)
Linter
ORES
(developed initial prototype)
PageViewInfo
SecureLinkFixer
StopForumSpam
UrlShortener
Interviews and presentations
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2022 WikiConference North America: Working together with Debian (
slides
2022 Wikimania at
Wiki World's Fair
: Mailman3 migration lightning talk (
video
2022
m:WikiAfrica Hour
: WikiGovernance: Getting On Board (
video clips
2022 Hackers on Planet Earth:
How to Run a Top-10 Website, Publicly and Transparently
slides
video
transcript
2022
Between the Brackets: A MediaWiki podcast interview
2021 WMF SRE meeting: Shellbox overview (
slides
2021 WMF SRE meeting: Mailman 3 overview and war stories from the migration (no slides, sorry)
2021 WMF SRE meeting: Debugging MediaWiki in production (
slides
2018
Between the Brackets: A MediaWiki podcast interview
2018 Wikimedia Developer Summit:
Improving volunteer developers' code review experience
2017 DebConf: Bringing MediaWiki back into Debian (
slides
video
2015 Wikimedia Blog interview:
It's all due to hockey: Kunal Mehta's journey from casual editor to programming mentor
2015 Wikimania: Finalizing SUL, and why we're never doing it again (
slides
2015 MediaWiki Developer Summit: Taking advantage of new Config features for extensions (
slides
2014 Architecture Summit: Configuration database 2 (
slides
2013 Wikimania:
State of Wikidata
slides
video on YouTube
2013 Wikimania: Hacking on Pywikibot (
slides
Contact
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User talk:Legoktm
legoktm
debian
org
(non-Google connected email)
legoktm
on Libera Chat/OFTC (IRC)
@legoktm:matrix.org
on Matrix
Former disclaimer
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I formerly worked for or provided services to the Wikimedia Foundation, but this is my personal account. Edits, statements, or other contributions made from this account are my own, and may not reflect the views of the Foundation.
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