Notices by Kevin Payravi (kevin@payravi.xyz)

A perennial UX quirk on #Wikipedia: a new contributor was working on a draft, but didn't click the "Publish page" button because of their (reasonable) assumption that it would publish the page as a live article. They instead assumed their work is auto-saved like many document editors do and lost their work.

After a long period of discussions and uncertainty, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that they'll be migrating the Wikipedia search backend (CirrusSearch) from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch...

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SXK2FODVJP3R3GRSYE2V2ODPUO74YLFO/

...and now, just a couple weeks later, Elasticsearch has announced that they're open source again under AGPL. Impeccable timing.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/29/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again/

this capitalist rat is now in the public domain, repost for good vibes in 2024