Ido’s chess Journey: How to teach chess to a 3 year old kid

How to teach chess to a 3 year old kid? That’s a good question. I wanted to teach Ido chess for a long time, but each time I tried, he lost focus after 2 minutes, even just for teaching him just rook movements. I decided I needed to plan it a little more, make it […]

Python snippet to get Mediawiki/Wikipedia Recent Changes externally

Mediawiki allows one to send Recent Changes (RC) to a UDP port. The ip address is defined by the variable wgRC2UDPAddress, and the port by the variable wgRC2UDPPort. It’s a really good idea that it’s a UDP transfer, since there is no need for any ACK, so Mediawiki doesn’t block if there is nothing listening […]

How to skip the useless “you are now logged in” page in Mediawiki

You installed Mediawiki some time ago, and now something bothers you: aren’t you tired of having an intermediate page named “Login successful” saying “You are now logged in to” before being allowed to go to the page you wanted to go? I am. I found there’s a hook that is called just when a user […]