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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.
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Posted on: April 26, 2022 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Kunal Mehta
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Propose sessions and projects for Wikimedia Hackathon 2022!

It’s time to start proposing sessions and projects for hacking at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022!
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Posted on: April 13, 2022 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Tricia Burmeister

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…
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Posted on: March 30, 2022 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Timo Tijhof
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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.
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Posted on: March 18, 2022 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Tricia Burmeister

Toolforge Jobs Framework

By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team This post continues the discussion of Toolforge updates as…
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Posted on: March 18, 2022 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez

Toolforge GridEngine Debian 10 Buster migration

In accordance with our operating system upgrade policy, we should migrate our servers to Debian Buster.
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Posted on: March 16, 2022 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez

Toolforge and Grid Engine

By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team One of the most important and successful products provided…
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Posted on: March 14, 2022 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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Pawing around with PAWS: recent updates to Wikimedia Cloud Services’ Jupyter notebooks instance

Learn more about recent updates to PAWS: A Web Service, Wikimedia Cloud Services’ Jupyter notebooks instance.
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Posted on: December 6, 2021 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Chico Venancio and WMCS Team

Wikipedia and Apps: A Love Story

Wikimedia Foundation’s apps are an essential piece to meet our “this is for everyone” design principle. Wikimedia apps are designed with the philosophy of mobile first in mind.
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Posted on: December 3, 2021 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Robin Schönbächler, Carolyn Li-Madeo, Sudhanshu Gautam and Volker Eckl
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How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow

This is part one of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.
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Posted on: November 10, 2021 Last updated on: December 22, 2025 Zbyszko Papierski
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