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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 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни 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.
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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 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни 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.
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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 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни 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.
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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 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни 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.
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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 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни 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.
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Someone's made a #MediaWiki based blogging thing! 🎉
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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.
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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.)
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@bluespice/117235083666058960
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
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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:
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_Fall_2026/Call_for_Contributions@ECHOLOT_Project @MWStake
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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: https://www.valtersit.com/vendors/wikimedia-foundation/ #cybersecurity #infosec #MediaWiki
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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
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Doku zur Konfiguration von FeaturedFeeds findet du auf mediawiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FeaturedFeeds/WMF_deployment
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RE: https://blorbo.social/@sunlightroses/117000093612675565
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: https://ffxvdetails.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
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It's the year 2052, #MediaWiki finally supports the <details> element in #WikiCode
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Bye, j15. Und auch #bacula, #docker und #MediaWiki.
[root@j15 tmp]# shutdown -h nowIhr 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.
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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
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We have recently updated the #starcitizen wiki to #mediawiki 1.46.0
If you run into any issues please let us know on Discord.
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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?)
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🍰 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? 🎉
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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)
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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_KumaWikipedia sieht mobil ganz anders und gut aus. Muss da mal nachforschen, was die anwenden...
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I Finally Started a Homelab — on My MacBook
I Finally Started a Homelab — on My MacBook -
Big annoyance with #Mediawiki: I have to type <code></code> rather than `` to add preformatted code text. 😫
