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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 https://professional.wiki/en/articles/wikidata-and-wikibase-with-ai

#MediaWiki #MCP #LinkedData @wikidata @Wikibase

@Datterich

Doku zur Konfiguration von FeaturedFeeds findet du auf mediawiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FeaturedFeeds/WMF_deployment

#MediaWiki #FeaturedFeeds

It's the year 2052, #MediaWiki finally supports the <details> element in #WikiCode

#amCoding #amProgramming #WikiText #WikiMedia

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

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Note the warning at the top: “This wiki has been archived and is now read-only.”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

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 https://professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant

#Wiki #Privacy #AccessControl #KnowledgeManagement

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

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

🍰 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? 🎉

https://starcitizen.tools/

#mediawiki #indiewikis

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.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Technical#Last_month_in_technical_changes_(August)
#wikimediacommons #mediawiki #volunteer

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:
https://www.kruedewagen.de/wiki/Uptime_Kuma

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

#mediawiki #mobileweb

I Finally Started a Homelab — on My MacBook

https://thanksstevenkim.vivaldi.net/tech-fediverse/256/

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

Erfahrungen mit „KI“ und Code

https://kaffeeringe.de/2026/08/19/erfahrungen-mit-ki-und-code/

Choose the AI behind your wiki's answers!

Configure your #MediaWiki chatbot via the admin panel: pick the provider, from Anthropic and OpenAI to the French Mistral and Swiss Apertus, or your own self-hosted model. Tune the chat features and apply your branding.

Learn more at https://professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant

#Wiki #SelfHosted #DataSovereignty #KnowledgeManagement

@luis_in_brief Have you seen the "Content partnership hub"? Even if you disagree with the proposed solutions, the problem statements are interesting.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub/Strategic_plan

We could come up with ways to transclude non- #Wikimedia content and make it searchable, but one big problem is how to propagate corrections back to the source. A small portion of nonfree files can get the entire collection removed.

Rijksmuseum and the Smithsonian could afford to develop their own #MediaWiki extensions.

Finally started my homelab... on my MacBook!

It was definitely a new experience for me, and I'm glad I finally found something that can keep me interested in actually using a homelab: running a MediaWiki-based wiki.

I used to be a heavy contributor to a wiki called LibreWiki, so I decided to import some of its pages into my own environment and experiment with its structure, extensions, CSS, and other features.

And no, I'm not planning to open my homelab to the public anytime soon. 😅 This is going to stay a personal project for experimenting, breaking things, fixing them, and learning along the way.

#Homelab #MediaWiki #Linux #Ubuntu #SelfHosting #Wiki #OpenSource

Ask your wiki in any language!

The AI Assistant replies in your language, even when the wiki content is in another. A German question on an English wiki gets a German answer, with citations to the English pages it drew from.

Learn more at https://professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant

#MediaWiki #Wiki #KnowledgeManagement #Multilingual #i18n

Stuck in "Don't even know what question to ask" land again

Looking at hosting my own MediaWiki for my DevLog
What do I put in all the fields? Do I want it in an subdirectory? Are all of the Defaults ok?

Is there any guidance for how to install through CPanel/Softaculous (as that is what the Host for my Domains uses)? Any at all?

#mediawiki #softaculous #devlog

Is the new Bucket extension pronounced 'Bouquet'?

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bucket

#MediaWiki

Freopedia.org has finally been upgraded to #MediaWiki 1.45.

:spdrose: Wir haben unsere Startseite überarbeitet und hoffen, dass es Euch noch mehr Spaß macht, in der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung in Schleswig-Holstein zu stöbern.

👉 https://www.spd-geschichtswerkstatt.de/wiki/Geschichtswerkstatt_in_der_SPD_Schleswig-Holstein

#SPD #Geschichte #histodon #Mediawiki #SchleswigHolstein