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Jon Robson
Personal blog · jdlrobson.com/postsprogrammingweb
Jon Robson's personal blog at jdlrobson.com covers programming and web. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Post on Wikipedia's new look and the MediaWiki skins behind it, covering skin maintenance, backward compatibility and third-party support. HN readers link it for those details.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a Welsh/English/European/adopted-Singaporean open source web developer and writer living in San Francisco.
Most-linked posts?
- The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-18
What Hacker News says?
Hey there, developer here and I can confirm that we are still actively maintaining those skins and preserving them. We have around 101 skins that work with MediaWiki and 7 skins deployed in production. You might be interested in the sections "WE MADE IMPROVEMENTS TO BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY" and "WE IMPROVED THIRD-PARTY SUPPORT" on https://jdlrobson.com/posts/2023-01-17_the-new-wikipedia-app... which have a few more l…
Comment linking /posts/2023-01-17_the-new-wikipedia-appearance-that-took-a-whole-village
on “Explore Wikipedia's New Look”Submitted Wikipedia: The strange case of the wandering semicolon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village as a story · 1 points
HN discussion