Three years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Parsing Team decided to replace Tidy, a tool to fix HTML errors, with a HTML5-based tool. Here’s what we did in that time period, and what kind of complexities we faced in changing pieces of the technical infrastructure powering Wikimedia wikis.... Read more
MediaWiki
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Evolving the MediaWiki platform: Why we replaced Tidy with a HTML5 parser
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It’s now easier to craft content for mobile devices: Responsive web design at the Wikipedia scale
A technology for editors to format content for mobile presentation.... Read more
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Improving MediaWiki’s documentation and localization practices
We constantly talk about the importance of projects like Wikipedia, but have you ever thought about the hidden things that make it all possible?... Read more
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The journey to Thumbor, part 3: Development and deployment strategy
Thumbor is an open source software service focused on resizing media into thumbnail images. Contributors upload full-size original media to Wikimedia projects, and those files need to be resized in order to keep their size reasonable for readers when included in articles. MediaWiki is capable of performing the same resizing tasks, but using Thumbor for the Wikimedia production environment is benef... Read more
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The journey to Thumbor, part 2: Thumbnailing architecture
Thumbor is an open source software service focused on resizing media into thumbnail images. Contributors upload full-size original media to Wikimedia projects, and those files need to be resized in order to keep their size reasonable for readers when included in articles. MediaWiki is capable of performing the same resizing tasks, but using Thumbor for the Wikimedia production environment is benef... Read more
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The journey to Thumbor, part 1: Rationale
Thumbor is an open source software service focused on resizing media into thumbnail images. Contributors upload full-size original media to Wikimedia projects, and those files need to be resized in order to keep their size reasonable for readers when included in articles. MediaWiki is capable of performing the same resizing tasks, but using Thumbor for the Wikimedia production environment is benef... Read more
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Think twice, code once: How Wikimedia shares common functionality across different projects
An overview of a recent cross-team effort at Wikimedia to reuse code on a variety of different platforms and the continuing story of lazy loading... Read more
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Wikimedia Foundation funds six Outreachy interns for round 15
Please join us in welcoming six new Outreachy interns to Wikimedia from Brazil, Cameroon, Germany, and India! ... Read more
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Building out new filters for edit review with user research
New filters for edit review, which allows Wikimedia editors to more easily navigate the firehose of recent changes to their projects, is out of beta.... Read more
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Towards building an African Wikimedia Developer Community
Wikimedians on the African continent have been working to address the lack of volunteer developers in the Wikimedia movement from Africa with the Africa Wikimedia Developers (AWMD) project.... Read more
