The new version of MyPaint just came out. It is the first official version since I became involved in the development (not much of my work was merged to this version, but I expect that this will change till the next release). Original announcement can be found here.

Maintaining a wiki project can be really tiresome sometimes. Especially if the community decides to reorganize the whole structure. For such occasions bots can be really handy. An explanation for the Ignorant: the term ‘bot’ stands for a computer program that simulates a really really limited subset of human behavior in order to accomplish some really really boring tasks (like moving 100 wiki pages to new addresses). The wiki page I am talking about here is E-Študij. It is an open portal for student notes, old exams with solutions and a lot of other similar data. Doing a reorganization on a page like this can be really boring if you have to do it by hand. Fortunately I have found this Python script. It is a bot framework that is also used to maintain all the official WikiMedia projects. A few hacks and half an hour later more than 100 pages have been renamed. And it is only the beginning …