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.
MediaWiki 1.35 comes with Breaking Changes
Last Friday, MediaWiki 1.35 (LTS) was officially released! So there is a new long term support version, which will be supported with patches until the
The future of knowledge sharing – SMWCon 2020 from 24. – 26. November
The SemanticMediaWiki conference is the yearly event for professional wiki users, maintainers, developers, consultants, researchers, responsible persons from business, and administration. And you should be
Maintaining your wiki: You know you have to
Thirty minutes, which is worth it: Ike Hecht (WikiWorks / WikiTeq) explains important basics of technical maintenance of MediaWiki.
The (nearly) 5 stars of generating data
In 2010, Tim Berners-Lee created his "Five-Star Open Data" guidelines, which define a set of requirements for what he sees asideal open data. The guidelines
Two-factor authentication relaunched
Secure login is elementary for web applications. Especially for administrators with additional rights, it must be ensured that no one else gains unauthorized access to
Wikimedia services beyond developer tools
Andre Klapper (Wikimedia Foundation) gave a talk at the Chaos Communication Congress 2019 last year, presenting a number of interesting Wikimedia tools beyond the immediate
