"The 1.18 branch was created in May 2011 and had to be rebranched in July 2011 since trunk received so many bugfixes it was impractical to merge them back. It took the whole summer to stabilize, the deployment took two weeks and was finally completed in October 2011.
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"1.19 followed the trend"
(rest to be written based on my findings tonight).
#Mediawiki well-knowers and #typescript software engineers, this might be of interest: We keep seeking for a senior lead developer for #MWoffliner, the Mediawiki scraper. It's a paid part-time position, with quite a bit of work to do right now already in the backlog. Contact us if you want to know more! #wmhack#fossjobs
How and why did Wikipedia became a multi-datacenter deployment?
This is an introduction post chronicling our seven-year journey, the MediaWiki infrastructure improvements made along the way, and the reasons/benefits for each change.
one aspect of writing tools for #MediaWiki wikis is that MediaWiki is (probably) the most-translated software in the world, and if you make your tool translatable, users will potentially want to translate it into all the same languages, and you’ll thus keep running into the limitations of every other #i18n system in existence
BrandonXLF’s Autoref allows users to use Citoid feature (‘Cite’ button) from VisualEditor in regular wikitext editor (WikiEditor) using its ‘Reference’ button. Should be by default for everyone tbh 🙂 #MediaWiki#MWScripts
Aufruf: Mit welchen Alternativen kann die Abkehr von Microsoft im Bildungswesen gelingen? Ich möchte weitere Erfahrungsberichte [1] aus der Praxis sammeln. Sendet [2] mir dazu bitte sachliche Meinungen, Ideen und Erkenntnisse. 🙏
@kuketzblog bei Moodle muss man das aber auch gut einrichten können manche Schulen schaffen das nicht.
#Mediawiki als Wiki, wir haben u.a. #Confluence ausprobiert aber das ist langsam versucht ein Dokumentenmanagementsystem und Wiki zu sein.
BTW: Nextcloud kommt auch mit einer integrierten Textverarbeitung (und anderen Office Kram, Kalender use) Das heißt man kann sich viele Einzellösungen sparen. 2/2
As some of you know, I run the Psion Documentation Project (https://doc.psion.info/). It currently runs #BookStack, which is OK but I don't love. It's also pretty stagnant at the moment, even though my Last #Psion Obsidian is rammed with info.
Basically, what wiki is good for a vintage platform project?
Alternatively, if you are a regular user of a retro #wiki, which one is it and why do you like it?
Is there a federated wiki-hosting project? Something that allows you to edit many independently-hosted #wikis with one account? Preferably with ActivityPub integration for easy sharing on the fediverse?
Does anyone use mastodon as an #SSO provider? Ideally we would like to allow members of our instance to use their masto account to log in to a #MediaWiki and #Loomio instance rather than having three accounts, but I have never tried doing SSO before and can't really find any examples. help plz? boost welcome
This is one of the oldest surviving micro-optimisations in MediaWiki's PHP code base, and incidentally is also how I learned that the closing > doesn't need to be escaped (after wondering why it wasn't using the popular htmlentities or htmlspecialchars built-ins, which turn out needlessly more complex for this purpose).