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Tips and tricks Become a keyboard ninja

2022-03-27

And other useful Tips of the Day.

Technology report 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

2015-06-24

This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.

Technology report MediaWiki blows up printers

2015-05-27

...allegedly. In a post to wikitech-l, Steven Walling pointed out that the TV show CSI: Cyber had used a screenshot of MediaWiki's HTML output and claimed it was responsible for blowing up printers.

Technology report VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

2015-04-29

All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis.

Technology report Architecting the future of MediaWiki

2014-01-22

This week we're interviewing Brion Vibber about the then-upcoming Architecture Summit. Brion is a long time Wikipedian, the first employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and currently the lead software architect working with the mobile team.

Technology report MediaWiki 1.22 released

2013-12-11

On 6 December, the latest version of the MediaWiki software was released. In development from March 2013 through October 2013, the release featured anti-spam and counter-vandalism improvements.

Discussion report Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting

2013-06-19

A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

Technology report Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

2013-01-28

As reported in last week's "Technology Report", the WMF's data centre in Ashburn, Virginia took over responsibility for almost all of the remaining functions that had previously been handled by their old facility in Tampa, Florida on 22 January. The Signpost reported then that few problems had arisen since handover. Unfortunately that was not to remain the case, with reports of caching problems (which typically only affect anonymous users) starting to come in.

Technology report MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

2012-12-17

MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.

Technology report MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

2012-12-03

Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.

Technology report MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly

2012-11-12

In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.

Technology report Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?

2012-09-03

Developers are currently discussing the possibility of a MediaWiki Foundation to oversee those aspects of MediaWiki development that relate to non-Wikimedia wikis. The proposal was generated after a discussion on the wikitech-l mailing list about generalising Wikimedia's CentralAuth system.

Technology report Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

2012-07-30

In the light of recent questions over the long-term reliability of Wikimedia wikis, the Signpost caught up with CT Woo, the Wikimedia Foundation's director of technical operations.

Technology report Developer divide wrangles; plus Wikimedia Zero, MediaWiki 1.20wmf4, and IPv6

2012-05-28

Technology report Wikimedia Labs: soon to be at the cutting edge of MediaWiki development?

2012-04-23

Technology report MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 hits first WMF wiki, understanding 20% time, and why this report cannot yet be a draft

2012-04-16

Technology report A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases

2012-03-26

Technology report With the 1.19 deployment now (mostly) complete, developers consider possible "mini" deployment later in the month

2012-03-05

Technology report Why "Lua" is on everybody's lips, and when to expect MediaWiki 1.19

2012-01-30