MediaWiki

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

Account operated by community members, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Mastodon

Websitehttps://www.mediawiki.org/
Githttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/
Bugshttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
Announcementshttps://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/

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: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JT6QELB6V6HOT2T6QTVNGJVVNUJRVB2A/

MediaWiki 1.44-beta has been branched - MediaWiki-l - lists.wikimedia.org

#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 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/History_of_MediaWiki_version_control

History of MediaWiki version control - MediaWiki

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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!: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2025

Developer Satisfaction Survey/2025 - MediaWiki

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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 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/3316

Call for Wikimedia Web/HTTP API Feedback - Wikitech-l - lists.wikimedia.org

is this "quirky mode" too much? >:3c
Call for Wikimedia Web/HTTP API Feedback - Wikitech-l - lists.wikimedia.org

Did @theresnotime's question about owning #Blรฅhaj's make the cut to be included in the the #WikimediaFoundation Developer Satisfaction Survey?

There is only one way to find out!

The survey closes on the 2025-01-03 and helps us measure developer satisfaction, and prioritize work on tools and platforms for our technical contributors.

๐Ÿ”— https://w.wiki/CLdi

Developer Satisfaction Survey/December 2024/announcement - MediaWiki

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Since we now got the spotlight thanks to certain someone, here are some woke positions in Wikimedia Foundation:
* https://grnh.se/45b18a291us: Engineering manager to make MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia) even more woke
* https://grnh.se/cac659f31us: Engineering manager to develop Woke features
* https://grnh.se/8a7e66cc1us: Director of SRE to make sure woke content is always available.
* https://grnh.se/84bf644b1us: Senior woke DBA (we DBAs never sleep)
Senior Engineering Manager - Mediawiki Interfaces

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๐Ÿ“ฃ #MediaWiki 1.41 will be end of life on 31 December 2024 as per the MediaWiki version lifecycle.

1.41.5 is expected to be the last release for this branch.

It is recommended to upgrade either to MediaWiki 1.42, which will be supported until June 2025 or the next LTS version, 1.43 (due to be released soon), which will be supported until at least December 2027.

๐Ÿ“„ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/5NYC4UZLY3MWQZ6DYJAUQRJG2ZHZFBJ6/

MediaWiki 1.41 is End of Life - MediaWiki-announce - lists.wikimedia.org