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  1. My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

    With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

    For instance, my ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Г needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

  2. Since my MediaWiki postgres container is working again… Taking the vacuum through the tickets.

    Some of this is so easy to fix, but you need to be able to test the changes, and often Postgres support is broken again when you want to look at any of these.

    #mediawiki

  3. I've been setting up #Imagor to work with #MediaWiki and it's all pretty straight forward so far. (I'm writing this I guess to curse myself to a day of annoying debugging tomorrow.)

  4. RE: fosstodon.org/@bluespice/11723

    We'll be exploring the topic of tables, visualizations, and dashboards in knowledge databases. And you'll get a glimpse into our current developments.

    #foss #opensource #wiki #mediawiki #bluespice #atlassian #confluence

  5. In two months, the #MUDcon (the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026) will take place in beautiful Ljubljana, Nov 11-13.

    If you want to share your experience both in using or developing MediaWiki in all its facets, please participate or contribute:
    semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Me

    @ECHOLOT_Project @MWStake
    #MediaWiki #SemanticMediaWiki #Wiki

  6. Wikimedia Foundation: 127 CVEs, 0 critical — but 61% unpatched and Trust Score C. XSS (CWE-79) drives 49 issues. Open source ≠ risk-free. Check your MediaWiki exposure: valtersit.com/vendors/wikimedi #cybersecurity #infosec #MediaWiki

  7. Use AI with #Wikibase and #Wikidata!

    Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client to Wikidata and any Wikibase you run via our #OpenSource MediaWiki MCP Server.

    Run queries without knowing SPARQL, create and enrich items, or import from Wikidata into your own Wikibase. Collaborate with or delegate to AI while retaining transparency via the version history.

    Learn more at professional.wiki/en/articles/

    #MediaWiki #MCP #LinkedData @wikidata @Wikibase

  8. Use AI with #Wikibase and #Wikidata!

    Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client to Wikidata and any Wikibase you run via our #OpenSource MediaWiki MCP Server.

    Run queries without knowing SPARQL, create and enrich items, or import from Wikidata into your own Wikibase. Collaborate with or delegate to AI while retaining transparency via the version history.

    Learn more at professional.wiki/en/articles/

    #MediaWiki #MCP #LinkedData @wikidata @Wikibase

  9. Use AI with #Wikibase and #Wikidata!

    Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client to Wikidata and any Wikibase you run via our #OpenSource MediaWiki MCP Server.

    Run queries without knowing SPARQL, create and enrich items, or import from Wikidata into your own Wikibase. Collaborate with or delegate to AI while retaining transparency via the version history.

    Learn more at professional.wiki/en/articles/

    #MediaWiki #MCP #LinkedData @wikidata @Wikibase

  10. Use AI with #Wikibase and #Wikidata!

    Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client to Wikidata and any Wikibase you run via our #OpenSource MediaWiki MCP Server.

    Run queries without knowing SPARQL, create and enrich items, or import from Wikidata into your own Wikibase. Collaborate with or delegate to AI while retaining transparency via the version history.

    Learn more at professional.wiki/en/articles/

    #MediaWiki #MCP #LinkedData @wikidata @Wikibase

  11. Use AI with #Wikibase and #Wikidata!

    Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client to Wikidata and any Wikibase you run via our #OpenSource MediaWiki MCP Server.

    Run queries without knowing SPARQL, create and enrich items, or import from Wikidata into your own Wikibase. Collaborate with or delegate to AI while retaining transparency via the version history.

    Learn more at professional.wiki/en/articles/

    #MediaWiki #MCP #LinkedData @wikidata @Wikibase

  12. RE: blorbo.social/@sunlightroses/1

    This is now going to become a wiki!

    I have been approved to host a Miraheze wiki that will contain the content in this thread and more in a way that is intutive, searchable, and editable by fellow fans.

    Find it here: ffxvdetails.miraheze.org/wiki/

    #wiki #mediawiki #miraheze #mirahezewiki #wikihosts

  13. Bye, j15. Und auch #bacula, #docker und #MediaWiki.
    [root@j15 tmp]# shutdown -h now

    Ihr habt mir gute Dienste geleistet über die Jahre, aber eure Zeit ist gekommen und ich konsolidiere, bis der Arzt kommt. Migriert übrigenz auf #restic, #podman und #Nextcloud.

    Für die #Hardware finde ich sicher noch eine Anschlussverwendung, bei #Stromverbrauch von 11 Watt gibt es ja nicht viel zu meckern.

    #Energiesparen #Stromsparen

  14. If you find a wiki page seemingly from a MediaWiki, but without a "View History" link, here’s a tip for how to find it.

    Example: the old HTML Working Group (WG) wiki at W3C
    * https://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Main_Page

    Note the warning at the top: “This wiki has been archived and is now read-only.”

    Aside: many years ago, each group at W3C had their own MediaWiki install, in a different path and disconnected from both every other group’s wiki, and the top level general W3C wiki (http://www.w3.org/wiki). I pointed out this made no sense, since groups more often than not had overlaps in documentation, technology, practices and would of course benefit from wiki-syntax interlinking. This was never really fixed at an infrastructure level, it had to be fixed at a cultural level, convincing working groups one by one to use the general W3C wiki, and ignore any WG-specific wiki. The other apparent hazard of having a WG-specific wiki is they can be (and have been) shutdown or frozen (like the example given), breaking any chance of fixing typos, other minor errors, or creating redirects to where the work has been restarted subsequently.

    Note also the lack of a "View History" link as a tab top right adjacent to the content area (or anywhere else on the page).

    This is likely because the page has been archived as static HTML, preserving the markup and styling, but removing any editing or history browsing or diffing or any other form submission based features that would require a dynamic backend like MediaWiki.

    Here is how to find such a page’s history:
    1. Find the “last modified” date in the footer and note the year, month, day.
    2. Check for the page in the Internet Archive, e.g. prepend its URL with "https://web.archive.org/web/"
    3. If there’s (presumably) still no "View History" link, look at the year month day numbers in the URL — the first 8 digits after "/web/" E.g. "20260512" for this page as of today.
    4. Replace those 8 digits with the year, month, day noted in step 1, with 4, 2, 2 digit numbers respectively. E.g. "20150623" for this page. Press return to load that.
    5. You may have to "close toolbar" the (x) in the top right of the page content.
    6. Note the "View History" link, click it.

    Presto, view history on a former MediaWiki page that’s been archived to static HTML.

    This is my second #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and first useful web tip.

    #wiki #wikiPage #MediaWiki #ViewHistory #W3C #HTMLWG #wikiArchived #readOnly #staticHTML #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #LastModified

  15. Same question, different user, different answer, by design!

    An admin asks about executive pay and gets a cited answer. A regular employee asks the same and honestly gets none: your #MediaWiki chatbot only ever draws on pages the asking user may read.

    No separate permission system: your wiki's existing permissions decide what it may use to answer. Confidential pages stay confidential.

    Learn more at professional.wiki/en/mediawiki

    #Wiki #Privacy #AccessControl #KnowledgeManagement

  16. We have recently updated the #starcitizen wiki to #mediawiki 1.46.0
    If you run into any issues please let us know on Discord.
    discord.gg/XcKwqyD4sc

  17. I just have to wonder: why doesn't #Nextcloud (written in PHP) have an app to integrate* it with #MediaWiki (also written in PHP)?

    I guess it could be difficult -- nowhere near as difficult as doing web-based office apps (like Collabora), but also there's probably not anywhere near as much interest in it either.

    (* I'm thinking of things like... being able to edit a folder-structure as a wiki, providing MW's markup, templating and extensibility and also special syntax for referring to other Nextcloud features outside the wiki -- like non-wiki files, calendar entries...)

    ...and for that matter, why doesn't Nextcloud have a Git manager? (Or does it, somewhere?)

    #softwareWish

  18. 🍰 Today marks 10 years since the #StarCitizen wiki was created by the community!

    To celebrate, we have a new homepage 😎, what do you think of it? 🎉

    starcitizen.tools/

    #mediawiki #indiewikis

  19. I’ve posted my newest monthly update about technical changes that impact the Commons community but that have not been communicated via the more ‘generic’ news updates.

    The topics are discovered and compiled into a list by a (Claude Sonnet created) software tool and then filtered again by me and I rework the list into a shareable post.

    commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Com
    #wikimediacommons #mediawiki #volunteer

  20. Wo ich gerade eine Wiki Seite teilte...

    Hat jemand einen Tipp, wie man das Standard Theme von MediaWiki (aktuelle Version installiert) vernünftig zur Anzeige mobiler Seite pimpen kann.

    Im mobilen Modus auf dem Smartphone sehen die Seiten einfach grottig aus (vor allem Firefox, Chrome besser). Beispiel:
    kruedewagen.de/wiki/Uptime_Kuma

    Wikipedia sieht mobil ganz anders und gut aus. Muss da mal nachforschen, was die anwenden...

    #mediawiki #mobileweb

  21. Big annoyance with #Mediawiki: I have to type <code></code> rather than `` to add preformatted code text. 😫

  22. 📣 The new versions of BlueSpice 5.2.6 and 5.1.10 are now available for download.
    bluespice.com/download/

    Full details on the included improvements and bug fixes can be found in our Helpdesk:
    ➡️ en.wiki.bluespice.com/wiki/Set

  23. Mein kleines Refactoring-Projekt der heimischen Infrastruktur zieht immer größere Kreise.

    Wenn ich den fetten Server nachts abschalten will, brauche ich 24x7 Ersatz in klein. Dafür habe ich gestern eine APU 1D4 mit #Debian 13 bestückt.

    Stellt sich raus, dass ich vor 10 Jahren einen #Datenlogger ebenfalls auf einer APU 1D4 installiert habe, der alle 5 Minuten 24x7 die Zählerstände des digitalen Stromzählers und vom #Wechselrichter in eine Datenbank protokolliert. Ach ja, langsam erinnere ich mich wieder.

    Die Software dafür läuft im wesentlichen seit dieser Zeit ununterbrochen (ausser Stromausfällen) in meinem hinterletzen Subnetz. Zum Glück hatte ich damals in einem #MediaWiki dokumentiert, was ich damals verbrochen hatte.

    $ grep PRETTY /etc/os-release
    PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"

    Da muss ich dann jetzt wohl auch mal ran...

    #EinmalMitProfis

  24. 這個周末就是 g0v summit 2026 , Wikidata Taiwan 社群自然也不會錯過這次難得的發表機會。

    這次 g0v summit 2026 中有場 #Wikidata 相關內容:

    5/23 R3 11:00 - 12:00 資料科學的利器:#OpenRefine 打遍資料清理與 Wikidata 資料維護任督二脈 講者:陳瑞霖、typebrook

    5/23 R1 15:50 - 16:10 #MediaWiki 的在地化與協助國家語言的嘗試 講者:陳瑞霖

    總共兩場議程,包含資料清理以及多語言在地化議題,歡迎所有對 Wikidata 、 #LinkedOpenData 等議題有興趣的社群夥伴參與!

    g0v summit 2026 目前仍開放線上報名,也可以現場直接繳費報名,亦設有社群回娘家票與公務人員票,更多資訊可洽 g0v summit 2026 官方網站。

    g0v summit 2026 官方網站:summit.g0v.tw/2026/

    #維基數據 #維基資料
    #opendata #Language #g0v #g0vsummit

  25. Using UTF-8 instead of ASCII directly in the code makes certain baseline fixes apparent, even within the commit messages. #MathML #MediaWiki

  26. Just made my first edits on National Library of Norway's local history wiki.

    Let's see if they last longer than my first edits on Wikipedia.

    :grimace_fb: :face_laughing_with_sweat_drop_fb:

    lokalhistoriewiki.no

    #Wiki #MediaWiki #LocalKnowledge #LocalHistory #History #Norsk #Norwegian #Oslo

  27. Discover highlights from the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference

    professional.wiki/en/news/medi

    * Connecting #Wikibase and @smw
    * Simultaneous Editing
    * Wikimedia's Strategic Plan for #MediaWiki
    * New #BlueSpice Features
    * #KnowledgeManagement at NASA
    * LLMs in wikis
    * Factors Influencing Wiki Success (by @krabina)
    And more!

    #MUDCon #MUDCon2024 #SMWCon #SemanticWikibase #OpenSource #OpenData

  28. 🤩 We are proudly contributing to this year's MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, conference.knowledge.wiki/ 4–6 November 2024 in Vienna!
    @lozross et al will discus #SemanticWikibase Development; Kolja Bailly will give insights to Linked open data curation and visua­liza­tion with SemanticWikibase, and together with Lukas Günther, a tutorial and hackathon helping you to get started with #Wikibase4Research. @nfdi4culture
    #opensource #MediaWiki

  29. Notice something new on the Rainverse Wiki home page?

    That's right,
    we have a poll!

    Inspired by polls on Super Mario Wiki, we will periodically ask you, the readers, assorted questions about the Rainverse! When the poll concludes, it will be replaced by another poll, and the results will be moved to the new
    Poll Archive page.

    This new feature is thanks to
    @[email protected] and @[email protected] . Awhile back, @[email protected] started whining on Miraheze Discord and Rainverse Matrix that there were inadequate polling options available on Miraheze. In response to Beth's whining, Claire made a whole new MediaWiki extension, and Average Helper and Claire did the hard work to get it installed on Miraheze.

    I'm also ready to preemptively announce plans for the Rain Character Tournament 3 and the My Impossible Soulmate Character Tournament 1. Each character tournament will ask you to vote for your favorite character in a series of matches, with winning characters advancing to the next round until only one remains.

    Neither tournament will happen for awhile: The next Rain Character Tournament will likely begin several months
    after the release of Rain Volume 7, while the first MIS Character Tournament will not begin until after MIS Volume 1 is released. But we can announce that when these character tournaments do happen, you'll be able to vote straight from the wiki home page.

    #Rain #MyImpossibleSoulmate #Rainverse #RainverseWiki #MediaWiki #Miraheze #RainCharacterTournament #RainCharacterTournament3 #MyImpossibleSoulmateCharacterTournament #MyImpossibleSoulmateCharacterTournament1 #Poll