I really wish Mediawiki had the equivalent of wp-cli - having to manually download, extract, and run maintenance commands is a bit of a faff and I'm lazy.
(I should probably work out a way of automating this, it's written in PHP and the instructions are the same each time)
WikiApiary is back online after having been down and overloaded for a long time.
Bawolff brought it back and did a ton of full stack performance work to optimise the whole system. Adding HTTP caching, tuning InnoDB, and more!
https://blog.bawolff.net/2026/03/giving-wikiapiary-kick.html
#MediaWiki #WikiApiary #Wikibase #Wikidata #VinylCache #VarnishCache #MariaDB #MySQL #webperf #SRE
Bucket: A potential replacement for Cargo and Semantic MediaWiki on Miraheze
Introducing NeoWiki and More at MUDCon
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Quando i robot prendono d’assalto una wiki: come abbiamo protetto Wikitrek dai bot AI
Il problema: la wiki era diventata lentissima Da qualche mese, chi visitava Wikitrek si trovava davanti a pagine che impiegavano anche un minuto intero per caricarsi — quando si caricavano. Molti vedevano direttamente un messaggio di errore: "La connessione ha impiegato troppo tempo." Il server non era rotto. Stava semplicemente annegando sotto una valanga di richieste automatiche — migliaia al minuto — provenienti da bot di intelligenza artificiale che scansionavano il sito alla […]https://blog.wikitrek.org/quando-i-robot-prendono-dassalto-una-wiki/
#KielWiki ist jetzt auf MediaWiki 1.45.1
Das war mal wieder ein wilder Ritt. Sagte ich schon einmal, wie sehr ich MediaWiki-Updates hasse? 😅
@lozross von @tibhannover bei #awl2026 zum ECHOLOT Projekt, das die Europäische Kulturerbe Cloud (ECCCH) und Europeana besser mit dem Wikiversum verbinden soll
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