#ITWorldCup Day 42 - Quaterfinal: Match 2
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@itworldcup/115926604229775228
For my America-based friends waking up, make sure you vote PHP 😁 #phpc #php #techfun #ITWorldCup #symfony #laravel #phpcommunity #zend #laminas #mezzio #cakephp #wordpress #drupal #codeigniter #elephpant #mediawiki #joomla #moodle
#ITWorldCup Day 42 - Quaterfinal: Match 2
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@itworldcup/115926604229775228
For my America-based friends waking up, make sure you vote PHP 😁 #phpc #php #techfun #ITWorldCup #symfony #laravel #phpcommunity #zend #laminas #mezzio #cakephp #wordpress #drupal #codeigniter #elephpant #mediawiki #joomla #moodle
#MediaWiki has quite the variety of ways to talk about things on your watchlist: are they pages, titles, page titles, or items? I'm going to change every occurrence to "pagetitleitems on your watchlist". Or is the "…the watchlist"?
I think I've fixed the bug where query string params weren't being used for @wm_au's event URLs, so it's now possible to do things like `https://wikimedia.org.au/events.ics?where=_pageID=4230` (and probably other silly things that break something else, I don't know).
The interactive map on the main page of my wiki can currently display only a maximum of 500 locations, which is not enough to display all of them.
I could try to change the relevant settings for #SemanticMediWiki , but I am worried that this will put too much additional strain on the server - the wiki has too many timeouts as it is (although less so after I updated the PHP version on Saturday).
Perhaps I should switch to #GeoJSON, at least for the map on the main page... although that means I can no longer show the preview images.
I am thinking about what I can do with the presentation of my wiki.
Can anyone recommend any extension for #MediaWiki that would allow you to add custom header elements above the actual article? As well as some examples of how this looks in actual practice?
Ideally, I'd want to use the content of some custom namespace for this - pointing to my books, interactive maps, interesting tale categorize, and so forth.
📣 Apply for the Northwestern Europe Wikimedia Hackathon.
🗓️ March 13 - 14, 2026 | 📍 Arnhem, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 | 🏢 On-site / In-person 👥
🔗 Full info and how to apply on the official event page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_Northwestern_Europe_2026
🛠️ Apply if you:
+ Have experience coding & hacking.
+ Reside in Northwestern Europe
+ Belong to a underrepresented group? We encourage you to apply!
📣 Apply for the Northwestern Europe Wikimedia Hackathon.
🗓️ March 13 - 14, 2026 | 📍 Arnhem, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 | 🏢 On-site / In-person 👥
🔗 Full info and how to apply on the official event page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_Northwestern_Europe_2026
🛠️ Apply if you:
+ Have experience coding & hacking.
+ Reside in Northwestern Europe
+ Belong to a underrepresented group? We encourage you to apply!
Join the workshop at #39C3!
NEW DATE: day 4, TODAY at 13:40 @ Free Knowledge Habitat Workshop Area.
Most people and organisations have their very own way of acquiring, organising, archiving, sharing, and collaborating on knowledge repositories. A broad spectrum of opinions and approaches resulted in a diverse and rich ecosystem of knowledge management solutions. Nevertheless, this also implies scattered and disconnected knowledge sources. What would it mean to build bridges among wikis and federate knowledge?
This workshop is going to be heavily centred on a twofold discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions.
These questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organisations, institutions, and informal collectives. Recently, I began actively researching this topic as I started playing with the MediaWiki API to cross-synchronise my local Markdown notes and the XPUB wiki, the public learning wiki of the Experimental Publishing master. I am puzzled by taking advantage of the potential of a specific software (in this case, MediaWiki) while fearing of being locked-in.
Some further, more specific, insights and questions:
Cc: @modal @p2panda @obsidian @wikimediaDE @dweb
#knowledge #FreeKnowledge #wiki #MediaWiki #API #Obsidian #Anytype #Ibis #IbisWiki #Reflection #CCC #Federation #federatedKnowledge #docs #PKM #knowledgeManagement #personalKnowledgeManagement #collectiveKnowledgeManagement #DWeb #decentralization #ActivityPub
Doing progress in my quest to recover an old #mediawiki install that was stuck at version 1.20. Currently fighting with character encoding issues, latin1 charset in MySQL and whatnot.
Join the workshop at #39C3!
NEW DATE: day 4, TODAY at 13:40 @ Free Knowledge Habitat Workshop Area.
Most people and organisations have their very own way of acquiring, organising, archiving, sharing, and collaborating on knowledge repositories. A broad spectrum of opinions and approaches resulted in a diverse and rich ecosystem of knowledge management solutions. Nevertheless, this also implies scattered and disconnected knowledge sources. What would it mean to build bridges among wikis and federate knowledge?
This workshop is going to be heavily centred on a twofold discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions.
These questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organisations, institutions, and informal collectives. Recently, I began actively researching this topic as I started playing with the MediaWiki API to cross-synchronise my local Markdown notes and the XPUB wiki, the public learning wiki of the Experimental Publishing master. I am puzzled by taking advantage of the potential of a specific software (in this case, MediaWiki) while fearing of being locked-in.
Some further, more specific, insights and questions:
Cc: @modal @p2panda @obsidian @wikimediaDE @dweb
#knowledge #FreeKnowledge #wiki #MediaWiki #API #Obsidian #Anytype #Ibis #IbisWiki #Reflection #CCC #Federation #federatedKnowledge #docs #PKM #knowledgeManagement #personalKnowledgeManagement #collectiveKnowledgeManagement #DWeb #decentralization #ActivityPub
In case anyone thinks #MediaWiki is alone in not paginating all pages of results (for watchlists, in its case) — #Flickr also does it on the user's tags' pages at `https://www.flickr.com/photos/<username>/tags`.
How do I know? I'm silly and have added checksum machine tags to many of my photos. Now that page is 14 MB of HTML. But at least I can sort of find duplicates.
I'm stuck with an apparently simple situation trying to run a #mediawiki development environment with #podman on #fedora ... Just in case anyone has the right tip to solve this problem with permissions, here is the full writeup:
Last Wednesday, my fellow XPUB1 classmates and me wrapped up the trimester with a collective folding, binding, and paginating party to make A_Mazing Machine[s]: Wordscapes to Liberate Language, the printed publication of our Special Issue 28!
My first few months at @xpub have been incredible. I am so proud of my classmates, the work we did together, and what we learned. I am also very grateful to our tutors, who have been super kind and inspiring!
All information, plus a PDF of the printed version, made with WeasyPrint is available on this Eleventy website we created to share all the things that we explored. It mirrors our incredible, legendary wiki. It was very interesting and insightful, so I published my notes about Using MediaWiki as a CMS for Eleventy.
#WeasyPrint #WebToPrint #Web2print #SI28 #SpecialIssue28 #SpecialIssue #XPUB #ExperimentalPublishing #publishing #WritingMachines #Eleventy #builtWithEleventy #11ty #MediaWiki #wiki
🗳️ 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
Last Wednesday, my fellow XPUB1 classmates and me wrapped up the trimester with a collective folding, binding, and paginating party to make A_Mazing Machine[s]: Wordscapes to Liberate Language, the printed publication of our Special Issue 28!
My first few months at @xpub have been incredible. I am so proud of my classmates, the work we did together, and what we learned. I am also very grateful to our tutors, who have been super kind and inspiring!
All information, plus a PDF of the printed version, made with WeasyPrint is available on this Eleventy website we created to share all the things that we explored. It mirrors our incredible, legendary wiki. It was very interesting and insightful, so I published my notes about Using MediaWiki as a CMS for Eleventy.
#WeasyPrint #WebToPrint #Web2print #SI28 #SpecialIssue28 #SpecialIssue #XPUB #ExperimentalPublishing #publishing #WritingMachines #Eleventy #builtWithEleventy #11ty #MediaWiki #wiki
