#MediaWiki question: Is there a way of blocking anonymous (i.e. "not logged in") users from accessing the "Special:RecentChanges" page?

There are 3,809 such requests in my latest Apache logs alone, and I doubt that ordinary users are making _that_ many requests.

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WikiApiary is back online after having been down and overloaded for a long time.

Bawolff brought it back and did a ton of full stack performance work to optimise the whole system. Adding HTTP caching, tuning InnoDB, and more!

blog.bawolff.net/2026/03/giving-wikiapiar... […]

Confluence-Panels in MediaWiki nachbauen: Hinweis, Tipp, Warnung etc. - Harnisch Concepts | Wissensmanagement- und Wiki-Beratung Confluence-Panels auch in MediaWiki: So erstellst du bunte Hinweis-, Tipp- und Warnungsboxen per Vorlage – inklusive fertigem Code.

Bunte Hinweisboxen wie in Confluence kann man sich auch in #MediaWiki nachbauen, sie müssen nur einmal angelegt werden.

Wie das geht, erkläre ich in meinem neuen Blog-Artikel: harnisch-concepts.de/confluence-p...

#note2self Die nächste #Mediawiki LTS-Version (1.47) erscheint im November 2026.

Kennt ihr das, wenn man bei #Minesweeper auf ein Feld klickt und eine riesige Fläche mit Möglichkeiten geht auf? So fühlt sich #MCP in Kombination mit #Mediawiki gerade an. Das wird groß :-)

💫 ECHOLOT at the #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2026.

ECHOLOT partners Jeroen De Dauw from and Bernhard Krabina introduced #NeoWiki, an open-source structured data system baked by ECHOLOT.

You can view their presentation here: professionalwiki.github.io/MUDCon2026-N...

Introducing NeoWiki and More at MUDCon Professional Wiki at MUDCon: introducing NeoWiki for modern structured data, Wikibase extensions overview, and the MediaWiki MCP Server for AI integration.

Discover #NeoWiki, MediaWiki #MCP, and #Wikibase extensions via our recap of the #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference

NeoWiki is the modern #OpenSource collaborative knowledge management solution. Co-presented with @krabina.bsky.social

professional.wiki/en/news/our-...

APIs and Descriptions **AutoDesc** has been a longstanding tool to generate descriptions for Wikidata items. Originally a spin-off from Reasonator, it started as my only JavaScript-based server application, generating both short and (for biographical items, and two languages) long descriptions. When the usual bitrot set in, I decided to move it over to Python, hoping to attract more developers; that did, however, not pan out. Also, I only managed to port the short description code, dropping support for the long descriptions in the process. Now, I have moved it to trusty Rust, and also ported the long description mode from the original JavaScript. I threw in some caching, so descriptions are now much faster – often <1sec for short descriptions. In other news, my **MediaWiki Rust API** has now added all of the MediaWiki Action API functionality as proper Rust elements. Generators are also supported, as is _continue_. Results that are based on page_info results can be automatically parsed into an appropriate struct. I even threw in a _prelude::*_ module to get everything you need in one line. Due to the massive addition of functionality, the version has also been bumped to 0.5.0.

News on AutoDesc and the Rust MediaWiki API crate:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/793

#rustlang #wikidata #mediawiki

#jawp (とふか #mediawiki 全體か) がメンテナンスのためDBロック。先日も變な動作してたしな。惡戲1件差し戻したいんだが、暫く無理かな。寢るか。

MediaWiki Chatbot Extensions Compared Compare AI Assistant, Wanda, KZChatbot, AskAI, and Chatbot for MediaWiki. Feature comparison, setup complexity, and recommendations to help you choose.

You can now ask your MediaWiki questions in natural language.

We compare five chatbot extensions for MediaWiki. Discover which one fits your use case.

professional.wiki/en/articles/...

#MediaWiki #AI #KnowledgeManagement #OpenSource #RAG

Einen meiner beliebtesten Blog-Artikel gibt's jetzt auch als Video. 😊

9 MediaWiki-Erweiterungen, die ich selbst regelmäßig einsetze und die meiner Erfahrung nach den größten Mehrwert für die meisten Organisationen bieten.

🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVyU...

#Wiki #Wikis #MediaWiki

Map of London with directions to Samsung Kings Cross. Nearby there's a "UNIQCLO" store, labelled as such, which an eagle-eyed MediaWiki developer may mistake for the "UNIQ" token we use in wikitext parsing, that has a nasty habit of showing up on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage maps.

Life brain: You've reached your destination, nothing to see here.

Work brain: Oh no, a *strip marker* not another map-frame parsing bug on Wikipedia!

#MediaWiki

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[Rambling TVTropes thread]

If #TVTropes has an original sin, it is the refusal to release the source code. A big part of why #Wikipedia got so huge is that #MediaWiki stayed open and freely available, which meant the whole bazaar could improve it, and use it for other entire projects. MediaWiki […]

TikTok - Make Your Day

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#HumamSakhnini makes #Discord into a #ZionistMismedia #masssurveillance pit. Using it invites #ZionistAttack on friends.

#Mastodon, #mediawiki and #Wordpress remain the important #socialmedia code bases, based on #MariaDB #PostgreSQL.

Revive the #ApacheTomcat mediawiki!

RE: mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/11598465...

I am having a massive outage. Again. And the hosting provider doesn't allow the installation of additional tools that might help me get to the bottom of this.

Now I am contemplating that I might host my own non-public #Apache […]

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Still trying to figure out my website outages.

To recap: I have two #MediaWiki wikis and one #WordPress site. And there seems to be _some_ background process which starts soon after 23:00 UTC (or 24:00 in France, where the servers are located) which puts such a strain on the website that I get […]

A map of Germany and surrounding areas with many, many markers.

#MediaWiki question: I want to use a screenshot of the interactive map embedded on the main page of the wiki as its social media preview card because that map is such an eye catcher. But I want to do so _without_ adding this screenshot to the actual page […]

[Original post on mementomori.social]

It’s official. Fandom has killed the Fandom Stars program for wiki mods and administrators. It was fun being a Fandom Star since 2022, but this really seems like the beginning of the end for Fandom as a community-focused platform. #fandom #wiki #mediawiki #news

How To Install MediaWiki On Rockylinux 10 Light

Create your own Wikipedia-style knowledge base!

Learn how to install MediaWiki on Rocky Linux 10 step by step

Complete installation guide:
wiki.crowncloud.net?How_to_Insta...

#MediaWiki #RockyLinux10 #Wiki #SelfHosted #LinuxAdmin

How To Install MediaWiki On Rockylinux 10 Light

Build your own Wikipedia-style platform!

Learn how to install MediaWiki on Rocky Linux 10 step by step:

Complete installation guide:
wiki.crowncloud.net?How_to_Insta...

#MediaWiki #RockyLinux10 #Wiki #SelfHosted #LinuxAdmin

#pywikibot looks very useful and can definitely mitigiate some pain one might have interacting with the mediawiki api. But wow, it appears almost as complex and the docs are equally labyrinthine 🤯

#mediawiki #api #wikipedka #wikidata

ah, looks like i stopped creating pages for Rojenö classes at Utëna (last Ñejutë class, fifth out of 30+ in Rojenö). either way, seems like the next design is indeed a Lekïtea matanu #mediawiki #wiki

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2025 The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for December. Activity summary During the month of December,...

41 Debian LTS Advisories were released in December fixing 252 CVEs. These included notable security updates for libsoup2.4, glib2.0, lasso, #roundcube, #mediawiki, python-apt and libpng1.6.

Es gibt einen #MCP Server für #Claude Desktop für #Atlassian #Confluence Wikis ... gibt es sowas für #Mediawiki auch (soll Wiki-Seiten lesen, erstellen und verändern können).

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I am thinking about what I can do with the presentation of my wiki.

Can anyone recommend any extension for #MediaWiki that would allow you to add custom header elements above the actual article? As well as some examples of how this looks in actual practice?

Ideally, I'd want to use the content […]

Our Wiki now has a discussion forum site, hopefully this can help make the fight against our fandom fork better!! #Wiki #MediaWiki

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

How you avoid mentioning #Mediawiki and #Wikimedia when they run the very largest and most trusted #opensocialweb projects of all, or archive.org, I'm sure I don't get.

The State of the Open Social Web | Ben Werdmuller A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.

werd.io/the-state-of...

#fediverse #ATmosphere #mediawiki are the means of #opensocialweb integration.

We have yet to see them duly combined.

#Sharepoint replaced by #SMW #Openoffice
Twitter/x/Slack by #ATprotocol #Signal
Facebook by #fediverse

We need #Rednote for now to replace #TikTok.

🔗 Full details and info on the official event page:
www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikim...

#Wikimedia #Hackathon #MediaWiki #FreeSoftware #Community