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In the new Signpost: ▸ Wikinews to be shut down ▸ Press applauds prohibition of AI in Wikipedia articles ▸ How editors deal with whitewashing of sexual abuse claims: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Introduction à l’évaluation automatique de la qualité de #Wikipédia youtube.com/watch?v=BgTyNq…

"The purpose of our talk is to lower your trust in mankind, which is not the mission of the Wikimedia project." - Giuseppe Lavagato on AI crawlers #MUDCon

Third and final day of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference in Salt Lake City! Livestream here: youtube.com/live/h3bZtGXBX…

Cindy Cicalese talking about Canasta! #MUDCon

MUDCon livestream here: youtube.com/live/AxOmVzXb1…

Keynote talk by Jon Morrey of FamilySearcy, about AI! #MUDcon

Interesting heuristic for determining AI bots from @weirdgloop's Jonathan Lee: if you have an extension like Popups, look for users that don't make Popups' API requests. #MUDCon

"I think of the set of MediaWiki wikis not so much as a collection of wikis as a massive, sprawling federation of content." - James Hare #MUDCon

The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon) Spring 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah has begun! Livestream at youtube.com/live/_KSXOK_8y…

Regular audio episode: betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-204-no… Video: youtube.com/watch?v=txns6T…

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with journalist and writer Noam Cohen (@noamcohen), author of "The Know-It-Alls", about tech founders including Jimmy Wales, which was just released in paperback. Links for the audio and video below.

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Paul Vodrazka, machinist and (AI-based) MediaWiki developer. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-203-pa…

In the new Signpost: ▸ Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki ▸ Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO ▸ Indonesian government blocks Wikipedia logins and more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

The Canasta MediaWiki distribution now supports GitOps - allowing you to record, and roll back, changes to your wiki's configuration! docs.canasta.wiki/guide/gitops/

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: a "BTB Digest" featuring clips from recent episodes with Cormac Parle, Vera de Kok, @harrisonstephen, Brian Wolff and @shlomitlir . betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-202-bt…

In the latest Signpost: * Concerns about new Italian copyright law * In the media: (Almost) every view on Wikipedia's 25th anniversary * Charlie Kirk beats ChatGPT, but "Deaths in 2025" tops both in the list of most viewed articles of 2025 and more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Steve Shattuck, ant researcher and founder of AntWiki. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-201-st…

The Spring 2026 MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference will be held next month, March 25-27 in Salt Lake City, Utah! We hope to see you there! mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki…

Reminder that, if you really want to use Wikibase, the best tool for making editors' lives easier, with a Page Forms-like editing interface is the Forage script: wikidata.org/wiki/User:Tech…