MediaWiki

Free wiki software used by @wikipedia and tens of thousands of other educational, fan, corporate and personal websites.

Account operated by community members, see mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Mas

2026-02-10

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.

โ„น๏ธ Full announcement: lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty

2025-12-04

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ The @wikimediafoundation 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey is live.

wikimediafoundation.limesurvey

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.

โ„น๏ธ For more info & links: w.wiki/GVdi

2025-11-23

: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.

โ„น๏ธ mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyL

#wmhack2026 #WikimediaHackathon2026

Various stickers that were traded at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey (Photo by Mike Peel, CC-BY-SA 4.0)
2025-10-28

๐Ÿ“ฃ 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.

โ„น๏ธ lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty

2025-10-03

๐Ÿ“ฃ 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.

โ„น๏ธ lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty

2025-07-01

๐Ÿ“ฃ 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.
๐Ÿ”— 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.
๐Ÿ”— w.wiki/EcU$

Colourful nondescript computer coding on a screen (Markus Spiske, CC0 1.0)
MediaWiki boosted:
2025-06-24

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...

#MediaWiki

2025-06-21

@morix :ablobfoxbongohyper:

2025-06-18

@tiefling this is too real :blobfoxcomputerowo:

2025-06-11

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ 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.

โ„น๏ธ meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Specia

Logo for the Coolest Tool Award 2025, Featuring the text Wikimedia '25 Coolest Tool Award in grey with the year section highlighted in blue, with a eggbeater stencil with blue highlights above and below the text. (CC BY SA 4.0)
MediaWiki boosted:
2025-06-01

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!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulaschp

MediaWiki boosted:
2025-05-08

While we wait, here's a quick look at the web traffic currently hitting Wikimedia projects โ€” can you perhaps guess when the reports of white smoke from the Vatican first started?

Total HTTP request volume graph โ€” at around 16:00 the requests a second goes from 170 req/s to 220 req/s
2025-05-07

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: lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty

2025-04-01

#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.

โ„น mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyL

2025-03-26

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿ“Š The December 2024 @wikimediafoundation developer satisfaction survey results have been published!

๐Ÿ’ปThis survey is used by the #WikimediaFoundation to measure developer satisfaction in the #WikiMedia and #MediaWiki communities, & determine where to invest resources in the future.

โ„น๏ธ Read it, Analyse the Results, Talk about it, And ask questions!: mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyL

Group photo of the attendees at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, taken from above with a 360 cam. (Fuzheado, Released under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication)
2025-03-22

๐Ÿ“… #OnThisDay (2012-03-22) Chad (^demon/๐Ÿ˜‚) 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.

๐Ÿ’พ gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/media

2025-03-20

@tchambers could also ask @taavi โ€” they wrote the mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:R extension which adds rel=me to MediaWiki :)

MediaWiki boosted:
2025-03-04
HTML and Javascript code with highlighted scripts and functions. Script on a computer with source code โ€“ screen of a software developer. Photographed by Martin Vorel (CC BY SA 4.0)
MediaWiki boosted:
Sammy [ Arson ]theresnotime@fox.nexus
2025-02-27

is this "quirky mode" too much? >:3c

A local install of MediaWiki, viewing a page imported from the English Wikipedia on Scott Monteith. The URL param "quirky=cat' is applied, which has "uwu-ified" the article, changing words like "better" to "bettew" and "known" to "knyown". Full text is:

Scwott Monteith, bettew knyown by his stage name Dweadbweat, is a Canadian ewectwonica musician. His music often has a powiticaw focus. He uses a waptop to cwweate his music, incwuding wive shows. Dweadbweat's weawwy awbums wewe cwweated in Montwweaw, Quebec; he cuwwentwy wowks and wives in Bewwin.

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