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Two people sitting cross-legged while working on their computers. They seem to be discussing code.

Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022!

The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon is a free, online event where anyone interested in Wikimedia technology can work together on projects, learn new skills, and meet other technical contributors. Don’t miss this opportunity to come together with other Wikimedia technical community members!

World map representing all the oceanic cables, highlighting the ones in relation to Marseille

Building DReaMeRS: How and why we opened a datacenter in France

Content delivery networks (CDNs) are one of the modern building blocks of the Internet. This blog post highlights a recent addition to Wikimedia’s CDN setup.

What is in an edit? Automated detection of edit types on Wikipedia

Learn about a new Python library for automatically detecting and summarizing what content is changed by edits on Wikipedia.

New discovery tool for technical documentation

The Wikimedia Developer Portal guides technical audiences to key documentation and community resources. By organizing links into thematic sections focused on developer tasks, it helps people more easily find information about Wikimedia technology.

screenshot of some commands from Jupyter notebook linked in blog post

Explore wiki project data faster with mwsql

Learn how the mwsql library makes it easier to download and work with SQL dump files in formats like Pandas dataframes or CSV.

The world map from Cosmographia Germanus

Modernizing our tech stack for serving maps at Wikipedia

Mediawiki allows editors to contribute with geospatial content. Learn more about the internals of the map technology we use and the improvements introduced.

What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles… in Rust

MediaWiki page titles are the primary identifiers for all wiki content – learn how they are validated, normalized and parsed and what it took to do so in Rust.

a cat is reading the Gerrit commit message guidelines on MediaWiki.org

Propose sessions and projects for Wikimedia Hackathon 2022!

It’s time to start proposing sessions and projects for hacking at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022!

Wikimedia Hackathon 2022: save the date and apply for grants and scholarships now!

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on May 20-22, 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world.