Final Project Progress: Rewriting PendingChangesBot from PHP to Python
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Feb 20, 20269 min read13
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How Breaking Things Taught Me More Than Any Textbook Ever Could When I started this Outreachy internship with Wikimedia, I thought I knew Python. I thought I understood web development. I thought deploying an app was just... hosting it somewhere as i...
Feb 7, 20263 min read15
Week 6: Mid-Point Reflections on My Outreachy Internship(Building Tools for Wikipedia's Infrastructure)
I still remember the exact moment I realized I'd been chasing the wrong problem for three hours. It was Week 3, deep into debugging why my Django application on Toolforge kept showing raw {{message}} template syntax instead of actual content. I'd che...
Jan 16, 202611 min read12
Think About Your Audience (Or: Why I Stopped Worrying and Started Asking "But Why?")
You know that feeling when you're explaining something technical and you can literally see the other person's eyes glaze over? Yeah, I've been on both sides of that awkward silence. Last week, I was working on replacing some database query code for t...
Jan 5, 20265 min read19
Everybody struggles...
The Algorithm Can't Debug Your Pain… We're living in 2025—a year that sounds like science fiction. AI writes our code, drones deliver our packages, and we have more computing power in our pockets than NASA used to land on the moon. We've "solved" so ...
Dec 23, 20254 min read15
One Step at a time... My first week as an Outreachy intern.
Hey there! I'm Erik (xinacod), and I'm thrilled to be joining the Outreachy December 2025 cohort as an intern with Wikimedia's Pywikibot project.This week marked my first steps into the world of wiki infrastructure, and it's been quite the technical ...
Dec 13, 20258 min read29