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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/

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Simon Dückert 1d ago

#note2self Die nächste #Mediawiki LTS-Version (1.47) erscheint im November 2026.

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Simon Dückert 1d ago

Kennt ihr das, wenn man bei #Minesweeper auf ein Feld klickt und eine riesige Fläche mit Möglichkeiten geht auf? So fühlt sich #MCP in Kombination mit #Mediawiki gerade an. Das wird groß :-)

Steffen Voß 2d ago

#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? 😅

👉 https://kiel-wiki.de

#Kiel #MediaWiki

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Lukas Fuchsgruber 2d ago

@lozross von @tibhannover bei #awl2026 zum ECHOLOT Projekt, das die Europäische Kulturerbe Cloud (ECCCH) und Europeana besser mit dem Wikiversum verbinden soll

#mediawiki #wikibase #wikidata #openglam

ECHOLOT project 2d ago

💫 ECHOLOT at the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2026.

On 25 March, ECHOLOT partners Jeroen De Dauw from @ProfessionalWiki and Bernhard Krabina from KM-A Knowledge Management gave a presentation at the #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference called 'Introducing NeoWiki: Modern structured data for MediaWiki'.
🎯 During their talk, they introduced #NeoWiki, an open-source structured data system baked by ECHOLOT.

You can view their presentation here: https://lnkd.in/e-6_rWvc

ProWiki 3d ago

Introducing NeoWiki... and more

NeoWiki is the modern #OpenSource collaborative knowledge management solution. Co-presented with @krabina who covered @ECHOLOT_Project

Discover #NeoWiki, MediaWiki #MCP, and #Wikibase extensions via our recap of the #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference

https://professional.wiki/en/news/our-talks-at-mudcon

Introducing NeoWiki and More at MUDCon

Professional Wiki at MUDCon: introducing NeoWiki for modern structured data, Wikibase extensions overview, and the MediaWiki MCP Server for AI integration.

Professional Wiki

Sam Wilson 4d ago

A cardboard tube full of #MediaWiki (old style).

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Nemo_bis 🌈4d ago

@cameronneylon Interesting question!

I know about https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Attribution_Generator for #CreativeCommons images (verbatim) reuse and I see that e.g. #MediaWiki extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Chart produces SVG files without any such metadata inside (presumably because they're not supposed to be downloaded?).

Commons:Attribution Generator - Wikimedia Commons

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Timo Tijhof 6d ago

@M0YNG @shaknais @Edent

Consider no icon. That might double reach among sighted users, and removes the need for the a11y workarounds. From:

<button onclick=".." title="Copy code" aria-label="Click to copy code">emoji</button>

To:

And then perhaps:

Python and several others do this. I implemented it in MediaWiki as well. E.g.:
* https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-string-syntax
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quickstart?safemode=on

#mediawiki

string — Common string operations

Source code: Lib/string/__init__.py String constants: The constants defined in this module are: Custom string formatting: The built-in string class provides the ability to do complex variable subst...

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