MediaWiki

1. Foundation

   Evolving the MediaWiki platform: Why we replaced Tidy with a HTML5 parser

   

   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

2. Technology

   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

3. Technology

   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

4. Technology

   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

5. Technology

   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

6. Technology

   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

7. Foundation

   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

8. Foundation

   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

9. Wikipedia

   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

10. Community

    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