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Discover highlights from the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference professional.wiki/en/news/mediaw… * Connecting #Wikibase and @SemanticMW * Simultaneous Editing * Wikimedia's Strategic Plan for #MediaWiki * New #BlueSpice Features * LLMs in wikis * And more! #MUDCon #KnowledgeManagement #MUDCon2024 #SMWCon #SemanticWikibase

Introducing NeoWiki... and more NeoWiki is the modern open source collaborative knowledge management solution. Co-presented with @krabina. Discover NeoWiki, MediaWiki MCP, and Wikibase extensions via our recap of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference 👇

Full comparison with feature table, setup complexity breakdown, and recommendations for your use case: professional.wiki/en/articles/me…

4) AskAI: simplest to install. You manually select wiki pages as context. OpenAI only. Good if you don't need automated retrieval.

You can now ask your MediaWiki questions in natural language via AI chatbots! In our latest blog post, we compare five chatbot extensions for MediaWiki. 🧵

pro.wiki/news/mediawiki… Page Approvals is available immediately to our MediaWiki hosting customers and it is Open Source, downloadable for free.

Increase trust in your knowledge base via approval workflows with our a new approval extension for MediaWiki. Discover what it can do for you, how it differs from existing solutions, and how it plays nicely with embedded content, like @SemanticMW queries 👇

Nowadays it is tricky to avoid spam from bots and AI agents on your MediaWiki Luckily there are easy to use open source solutions that beat the bots, when used correctly Discover how to protect your wiki with bot-proof captcha questions via our new anti-spam guide 👇

Full post at tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/09/19/enh…

Level up the searchability of your Wikibase data! Read the latest post on the @WikimediaDE Tech Blog on the new Wikibase Faceted Search extension. It delves into the details of what the extension can do and tells the story of how it came to be.

We released Semantic Result Formats 5.1.0, which brings improve support for MediaWiki 1.43 LTS and enhancments for the filtered, datatables, graph, and d3chart formats

@fontawesome Font Awesome 7 is now available for MediaWiki via the latest version of github.com/ProfessionalWi…

Order up! Font Awesome 7 is ready to go. We’ve cooked up our best version yet — with more icons, better performance, and tasty new features to spice up your projects. Available now! fontawesome.com

Semantic MediaWiki 5.1.0 only contains minor new features, no fixed, and no breaking changes. Upgrading is thus not essential. For more details, see #semantic-mediawiki-510" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/SemanticMediaW…

We just release Semantic MediaWiki 5.1.0. This is a minor release that we tagged to give you access to the latest enhancements before we drop support for MediaWiki below 1.43 We will soon raise the minimum MediaWiki version to 1.43 on master to aid supporting MediaWiki 1.44

MediaWiki 1.44 version also comes with security fixes. If you stay on the latest LTS version, MediaWiki 1.43, be sure to get the latest patch release for it. Learn more about MediaWiki 1.44 at pro.wiki/news/whats-new… Or catch up on MediaWiki 43 LTS via pro.wiki/news/what-new-…

* Improved user blocking * Better quality-assurance via patrolling * Smarter redirect handling * More secure file protection * Upgraded bundled extensions * And more...

MediaWiki 1.44 is out! This new version of the popular open source wiki software behind Wikipedia brings several enhancements: 🧵↓