MediaWiki, data protection and the EU General Data Protection Regulation
With the introduction of the GDPR in the European Union, the topic of data protection is at the top of the agenda for all organizations and companies. Markus Glaser (Co-Founder of Hallo Welt!) explains how MediaWiki responds to it.
SMWCon 2020 – good experience with the largest SMWCon ever
Due to the COVID crisis the SMWCon 2020 had to be held as a virtual event. It was common to have live-streaming to YouTube in past conferences, but to go 100% virtual was new and we decided to try out Hopin for our purpose.
The Embassy of Good Science – portal for research ethics and integrity
The design of many MediaWikis is often very spartan. But not this one: The Embassy of good Science does not only have a very appealing design, the wiki is also a platform for a very important and up-to-date topic.
Use of Semantic MediaWiki in the UK’s Ministry of Defence
It's no secret: open source software is used a lot in the defense and military sector. The reasons are, on the one hand,
Tutorial – Practical introduction to the use of Semantic MediaWiki
Many non-profit and for-profit organizations are upgrading their MediaWiki to a Semantic MediaWiki to work with metadata and structured data. Semantic MediaWiki can
“Ultimate nerd snipes” from Semantic MediaWiki to Wikifunctions
Wikimedia seems to have accomplished its mission: By current count, there are 55 million articles in 300 languages available. But
Tutorial – Mediawiki 1.35 Migration
With the new Long Term Support (LTS) version 1.35, there have been some breaking changes in the system requirements that should be considered
WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE – version 1.0 is now released
TinyMCE is a MediaWiki extension that lets users edit wiki pages using the popular open-source JavaScript-based WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE developed by Ephox Corp. The editor
The Wikimedia code will move from Gerrit to Gitlab
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that it will migrate its code repositories from Gerrit to Gitlab. We asked Greg Grossmeier, Director of Engineering, what this means for developers.
