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If you contribute via our Gerrit instance, work has been completed to move it behind the CDN to assist with issues relating to web scrapers.
Everything is expected to work as usual without any changes needed.
ℹ️ Full announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YBWTGZDAJTFCCZD4GER5HHZ52UCFAT7A/
🗳️ The @wikimediafoundation 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey is live.
https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/552643
This survey is used to measure developer satisfaction & determine where to invest resources in the future.
Topics include: #Wikimedia Cloud Services, development and shared test environments, Phabricator, code review, continuous integration, deployment, #MediaWiki core backend components and APIs, technical documentation, & research needs.
ℹ️ For more info & links: https://w.wiki/GVdi
:wikimedia: Scholarship applications are now open for the #Wikimedia #Hackathon 2026 that will take place on May 1-3, 2026 in #Milan, #Italy. Scholarship applications are open until November 28, 2025.
ℹ️ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2026
📣 New security and maintenance releases of supported :mediawiki: #MediaWiki branches are out!
MediaWiki 1.39.15, 1.43.5 and 1.44.2 have now been released.
📣 New security and maintenance releases of supported :mediawiki: #MediaWiki branches are out!
MediaWiki 1.39.15, 1.43.5 and 1.44.2 have now been released.
📣 New security and maintenance releases of supported #MediaWiki branches are out!
MediaWiki 1.39.13, 1.42.7 and 1.43.2 have now been released.
🔗 https://w.wiki/EcV3
As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle, 1.42 has reached the formal end of life (EOL) as of Monday June 30, 2025. 1.42.7 is expected to be the last release of this branch.
🔗 https://w.wiki/EcU$
Now that the AI bots are crawling everything, how do public MediaWikis handle the traffic? We're seeing massive increase of crawlers, and have made diffs and changesets require login - but more is needed...
@morix :ablobfoxbongohyper:
@tiefling this is too real :blobfoxcomputerowo:
🛠️ The sixth edition of the @wikimediafoundation Coolest Tool Award is now open for nominations and we want to hear from everyone.
Nominations are anonymous and open until 25 June 2025. You can nominate as many tools as you like, just fill out our brief survey for each one.
ℹ️ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award
Some of us (and probably many of @wikimediaDE!) will be at #GPN23 in a few weeks. If you're attending too, look out for some stickers!
In preparation we took a little look at the Gulaschprogrammiernacht article on the English Wikipedia, and... it could do with some work!
While we wait, here's a quick look at the web traffic currently hitting Wikimedia projects — can you perhaps guess when the reports of white smoke from the Vatican first started?
MediaWiki 1.44-beta has been branched.
This is the first step in the release process for #MediaWiki 1.44.0, which should be out in June 2025
For more information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JT6QELB6V6HOT2T6QTVNGJVVNUJRVB2A/
#OnThisDay, 2006-04-01, #MediaWiki development moved from a #SourceForge hosted #CVS environment to #SVN after a extended outage of the SourceForge CVS service.
The original SVN environment was hosted on @brooke's server until migrating to a @wikimediafoundation server on the 2007-05-31.
ℹ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/History_of_MediaWiki_version_control
🖥️📊 The December 2024 @wikimediafoundation developer satisfaction survey results have been published!
💻This survey is used by the #WikimediaFoundation to measure developer satisfaction in the #WikiMedia and #MediaWiki communities, & determine where to invest resources in the future.
ℹ️ Read it, Analyse the Results, Talk about it, And ask questions!: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2025
📅 #OnThisDay (2012-03-22) Chad (^demon/😂) made the first official commit to the #MediaWiki core in Git using @gerritreview and #Git-Review as part of the #SVN to #Git conversion project.
@tchambers could also ask @taavi — they wrote the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RealMe extension which adds rel=me to MediaWiki :)
💻 Do you interact with the #Wikimedia or #MediaWiki APIs?
The @wikimediafoundation is looking for feedback.
is this "quirky mode" too much? >:3c
💻 Do you interact with the #Wikimedia or #MediaWiki APIs?
The @wikimediafoundation is looking for feedback.
