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Tariqdoes anyone know how to have the "metadata box" in mediawiki?(I'm exploring a few wikis as a total beginner and struggling to get this kind of thing working)I'm happy to try other wikis if they make this easier<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wiki</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mediawiki</a>

TariqMediawiki is mature open source wiki software that has been used at scale for yearsThere is no "add new page"I am constantly gobsmacked at how poor ux is for so many tools. Apparently there is a wiki page for how to add a new page.<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page#Using_article_creation_template" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page#Using_article_creation_template</a>Insanity.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mediawiki</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wiki</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ux</a>

TariqTech advice needed !I'd like to try a wiki tool - like mediawiki or confluence.Are there hosted solutions that allow me to try for free for a short period - eg a couple of weeks?Specifically I want to test: 1. structured pages / templates2. how good the built-in search engine is3. UI for accessibility and design<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wiki</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mediawiki</a>

sammy@fox:~$someone* needs to create <code>$wgNaughtyLittleShitMode</code> for <a href="https://fox.nexus/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> (it just adds a checkbox which asks "are you being a naughty little shit??" when you try to save) /j

MediaWikiMediaWiki 1.44-beta has been branched.This is the first step in the release process for <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> 1.44.0, which should be out in June 2025For more information: <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JT6QELB6V6HOT2T6QTVNGJVVNUJRVB2A/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JT6QELB6V6HOT2T6QTVNGJVVNUJRVB2A/</a>

rail 🦊ΘΔoh damn, yesterday I hit 10k edits on translatewiki.net, with almost the entirety of them being Polish localization to <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> :3

xtex🅥Would you contribute a MediaWiki-based, strongly-consistent, distributed lock to us so that our tests will not conflict? I want it (: (yep this is my personal idea, not on behalf of mwbot-rs or wmgmc) # (not so) good first issue<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391120" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391120</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wikimedia</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mediawiki</a>

2somethingTIL that 1) <code>sed</code> modifies binary files as if they were text. 2) Some webp images contain strings that could be mistaken for pieces of MediaWiki syntax. On a totally unrelated note, a bunch of images in Pandora's Tale Wiki were corrupted. They should be fixed now. <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Sed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sed</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/PandorasTaleWiki" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PandorasTaleWiki</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Git" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Git</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/MediaWiki" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a>

Bernhard KrabinaJust arrived at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul. Will host a session on Saturday 9am about Semantic MediaWiki <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025/Program" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025/Program</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/@smw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@smw</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/@MWStake" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MWStake</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WMHack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WMHack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SemanticMediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SemanticMediaWiki</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KnowledgeGraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KnowledgeGraph</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/@mediawiki" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mediawiki</a>

Semantic MediaWikiHurry to submit a talk at the MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/MWStake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MWStake</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/KnowledgeManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KnowledgeManagement</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/Wikis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikis</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/SemanticMW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SemanticMW</a> <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Workshop_Spring_2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Workshop_Spring_2025</a>

Timo Tijhof<a href="https://mastodon.social/@quiddity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@quiddity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@cscott" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cscott</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/@LucasWerkmeister" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@LucasWerkmeister</a> Yeah, it was declined since power users like finding stubs and others equally.For the common and most agreeable case, redirects are excluded.For the other end of the spectrum, serving only the "best" articles there is Special:RandomInCategory, which can be combined with featured articles, stubs, stubs of any specific topic, etc, etc, etc.Everyone happy? No. A good equilibrium? Maybe!<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mediawiki</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/wmhack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wmhack</a>

Casey PeelAnother slew of AI crawlers hitting DProofreaders this weekend, this time our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> instance. Thanks to our prior work -- and the MW file cache -- the server is still up and serving traffic but the average CPU load increased by 6x and the server is running very hot.Shout-out to the MW community who put together <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Handling_web_crawlers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Handling_web_crawlers</a> -- the Lockdown extension is now installed and doing a stellar job of restricting expensive pages to authenticated users.

Inf-NIT | SHWir setzen gerade für unsere <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/beruflicheschulen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beruflicheschulen</a> ein Wiki auf, dass auch Infos aus der Verwaltung und dem Stundenplan aggregiert (z.B. Klassenteams). Wir arbeiten mit <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mediawiki</a>. Die Software für <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikipedia</a> ist ja wirklich faszinierend. Danke dafür. Der Umgang mit Annotationen für <a href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org</a>, Seitenformularen, Vorlagen und den immensen Mengen an Klammern ist schon herausfordernd. Die Dokumentation ist jenseits der Kernfunktionen nicht einheitlich und manchmal lückenhaft.

ProWikiSemantic MediaWiki 5 Released!The long-awaited <a href="https://wikis.world/@smw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@smw</a> 5 is here! Discover the improvements it brings. <a href="https://professional.wiki/en/news/semantic-mediawiki-5-released" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://professional.wiki/en/news/semantic-mediawiki-5-released</a>Among the highlights is support for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> 1.43, the latest LTS version.

Denny VrandečićOn the latest episode of "Between the Brackets", Yaron Koren hosts me for a chat about Wikifunctions, Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, AI, and much more. I hope you enjoy the episode. Thank you, Yaron, for hosting!<a href="https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-180-denny-vrandei" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-180-denny-vrandei</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mediawiki</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#podcast</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/wikifunctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wikifunctions</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikidata</a>

Lucas Werkmeisternew blog post: Introducing m3api <a href="https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2025/04/12/introducing-m3api/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2025/04/12/introducing-m3api/</a><a href="https://wikis.world/tags/m3api" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#m3api</a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a>

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵New <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blog</a> post: Why I Love Markdown<a href="https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html</a>1131 wordscc: my wonderful <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/chorus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chorus</a>: <a href="https://polymaths.social/@joel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@joel</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@dm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dm</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@sotolf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sotolf</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@thedoctor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thedoctor</a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/@pixx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pixx</a> <a href="https://behold.mylegendary.quest/users/twizzay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@twizzay</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@orbitalmartian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@orbitalmartian</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@adamsdesk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@adamsdesk</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@krafter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@krafter</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@roguefoam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@roguefoam</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@solusspider" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@solusspider</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@clayton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@clayton</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@giantspacesquid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@giantspacesquid</a>(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)<a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/100daystooffload" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#100DaysToOffload</a> #20<a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/rldanewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rlDaneWriting</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Markdown</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/commonmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommonMark</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/wiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiki</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/wikkawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WikkaWiki</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/tiddlywiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TiddlyWiki</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ADHD</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humor</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/adhdhumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ADHDHumor</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumoUr</a>

BlueSpice📣🤩 <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BlueSpice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueSpice</a> 5.0 is here! Reach a new level in managing your <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/company" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#company</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knowledge</a>. Discover new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/features" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#features</a> like the automated <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DeepL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepL</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translation</a> or the editor for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BPMN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BPMN</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/process" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#process</a> diagrams.Test BlueSpice 5.0 now in our online <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/demo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#demo</a>: <a href="https://en.demo.bluespice.com/wiki/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.demo.bluespice.com/wiki/</a>Overview of all new features at: <a href="https://bluespice.com/bluespice-5-0-has-arrived/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bluespice.com/bluespice-5-0-has-arrived/</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mediawiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mediawiki</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Wiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiki</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Knowledgebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Knowledgebase</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/KnowledgeManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KnowledgeManagement</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/QualityManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QualityManagement</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Documentation</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OrganizationManual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OrganizationManual</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Compliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Compliance</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MultiLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MultiLanguage</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blog</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PDFExport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFExport</a>

ProWikiEnhance your Wikibase with extensions!Check out our curated list of top 16 most useful <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikibase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikibase</a> extensions: <a href="https://professional.wiki/en/articles/wikibase-extensions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://professional.wiki/en/articles/wikibase-extensions</a>These extensions provide better search, data display, quality controls, export, media support, and integrations.What <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> extensions do you use with Wikibase? Let us know in a comment.

ProWikiOur popular responsive <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaWiki</a> theme Chameleon now supports MediaWiki 1.44Chameleon tops our list of best MediaWiki themes: <a href="https://www.pro.wiki/articles/best-mediawiki-skins" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pro.wiki/articles/best-mediawiki-skins</a>See the recent enhancements at <a href="https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/chameleon/blob/master/docs/release-notes.md" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/chameleon/blob/master/docs/release-notes.md</a>

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