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Ground your AI via knowledge managed in the #OpenSource #MediaWiki platform, be it via Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini or the European providers.

https://professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant

Another #MediaWiki question:

I am experimenting with the "Random Selection" extension, which calls up some random code or text. The default setting seems to be that it will always call up the same option unless (a) you alter the page this function is on, or (b) the cache is refreshed.

I am thus curious: How often _does_ the cache for pages get refreshed in a MediaWiki wiki by default?

My LocalSettings.php has this line, if this matters:

$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;

Alternatively, this function allows an "uncached" option. But I am worried - does this only apply to this specific function, or to the page as a whole? The former would probably be fine, but I do not want all pages to be uncached, thanks to the massive extra server load.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomSelection

#SemanticMediaWiki 7.0 has been released. Thank you to @ProWiki and the community for their effort!

Please consider supporting SMW #Donate #OpenSource #KnowledgeManagemenr #MediaWiki

https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Sponsorship

https://camp2.rectangle.zone/wiki/User:ThePinkHacker/cookie

Making cookie clicker on MediaWiki is hard apparently.

Happy Brooke Vibber day!

Today I am publishing, in full, an interview I did with @bvibber back in 2021 about the history of #Wikipedia and #MediaWiki.

https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/06/01/interview-with-brooke-vibber-2021.html

Topics covered include: aversion to change, BDFLs, #PHP, whether MediaWiki should RIIR, and more!

A few parts of this interview were published in the Signpost at the time, but most didn't make the cut solely for space reasons. So in light of recent events, I was looking back and thought it was still worth publishing.

När ledare i projekt som drivs i form av tusentals frivilliga och ett fåtal anställda hämtas från storföretagen innebär det att det som är bra med dessa projekt och ger dem trovärdighet utsätts för risken att bli förstört och korrumperat. VI har sett tendenser till detta i Mozilla Foundation som leder utvecklingen av Firefox med mera.

📢 ECHOLOT SURVEY | Take part in our survey and help us understand how you use #MediaWiki outside of Wikimedia projects!

🔗https://survey.knowledge.wiki/index.php/716248?newtest=Y&lang=en

At ECHOLOT, we are trying to learn more about how MediaWiki is used outside of the original projects of the @wikimediafoundation, such as @wikipedia, @wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikidata and Wikifunctions.

Thank you for participating!

📣 Today is Patch Day 📣
BlueSpice 5.2.4 and 5.1.8 are now available for download.
https://bluespice.com/download/

Find more information about included improvements and bug fixes in our helpdesk:
➡️ https://en.wiki.bluespice.com/wiki/Setup:Release_Notes

#MediaWiki #BlueSpice #Wiki #Release #Patch #EnterpriseWiki #KnowledgeManagement #KnowledgeBase #Documentation #Changelog