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Technology report What does it take to upload a file?
2021-11-29
How MediaWiki works with media files.
Technology report The people who built Wikipedia, technically
2021-01-31
Starting with trust, expanding, controversy, and opportunities.
Technology report Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
2017-02-06
Plus the latest scripts, bots, and tech news
Technology report Tech present, past, and future
2017-01-17
Data sets now available on Commons, wishes to be worked on in 2017, and a recap of the Wikimedia Developer Summit
Technology report Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
2016-12-22
And a roundup of recently-added tools
Technology report Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!
2016-03-16
An interview with a MediaWiki developer.
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 HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
2015-06-17
HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts: The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.
Technology report Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
2015-06-10
Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.
Technology report Things are getting SPDYier
2015-06-03
Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.
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 Attempting to parse wikitext
2014-10-15
Attempting to parse wikitext: This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.
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 Architecture Summit schedule published
2014-01-15
The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.
Technology report Gearing up for the Architecture Summit
2014-01-08
MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit.
Technology report Looking back on 2013
2014-01-01
2013 saw a lot of changes to MediaWiki software and Wikimedia infrastructure.
Technology report OAuth: future of user-designed tools
2013-12-25
OAuth: future of user designed tools: Last month, the OAuth extension was deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. OAuth is a standard used for allowing users to authenticate third-party applications, also known as consumers, to take actions on their behalf.
Technology report Introducing the GLAMWikiToolset
2013-12-18
This week, the GLAMWikiToolset, or GWToolset, is being deployed to the Wikimedia Commons. It allows for GLAM organizations to batch upload content based on various metadata stored in an XML schema. In the past this has been done by various bots, but now it will be easier for GLAMs to do it directly.
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.
Technology report New notifications system deployed across Wikipedia
2013-04-29
This week saw the deployment of the Echo extension, also known as "notifications".