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.
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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.
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.
Web Perf Hero: Amir Sarabadani
Today we recognize Amir’s work over the past six months which cut latencies by half!
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.
Propose sessions and projects for Wikimedia Hackathon 2022!
It’s time to start proposing sessions and projects for hacking at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022!
Web Perf Hero: Siddharth VP
Siddharth VP (@SD0001) implemented Package files for Gadgets in T198758. This enables gadget developers to bundle JSON files, unpacked via…
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.
Toolforge Jobs Framework
By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team This post continues the discussion of Toolforge updates as…