Smarterware

Tweak MediaWiki to Co-Write a Book
November 4th, 2009, 1 comment

My new book's web site is powered by the same software the runs Wikipedia, the deeply-customizable MediaWiki. Over at Lifehacker this morning, I ran though how to make MediaWiki your own for any collaborative or just easy-to-update web site with a skins, extensions, permissions, and a few more helpful tweaks. Here's how to customize MediaWiki for your next project.

How to Edit Wikipedia
September 1st, 2009, 8 comments

The Wall Street Journal reports that only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women. What the what? Ladies, obviously we need to step it up. Here's my personal experience of becoming an editor, and how to contribute to Wikipedia. Excuse me while I hang my head in shame for not making any new edits since 2007.