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MediaWiki History: the best dataset on Wikimedia content and contributors

Learn about using the Mediawiki History Dataset to explore the every day experience of editors on Wikipedia.

Celebrating 600,000 commits for Wikimedia

A reflection on the developer services we offer and our community of developers.

Using Zulip, an Open Source tool, for engaging participants in Wikimedia’s technical outreach programs

Zulip enables organizers and mentors to provide support and guidance to participants in each phase of technical outreach programs.

Fixing npm security issues immediately in MediaWiki projects

LibUp writes a commit message by mostly analyzing the diff, fixes up some changes, and pushes the commit to Gerrit to pass through CI and be merged. If npm is aware of the CVE ID for the security update, that will be mentioned in the commit message. Each package upgrade is tagged, so if you want to e.g. look for all commits that bumped MediaWiki Codesniffer to v26, it’s a quick search away.

Parsoid in PHP, or there and back again

In December 2019, we replaced the original version of Parsoid, written in JavaScript, with a version written in PHP, the primary programming language of MediaWiki. This new version, called Parsoid/PHP, is roughly twice as fast as the original JavaScript version. Parsoid/PHP brings us one step closer to integrating Parsoid and other MediaWiki wikitext-handling code into a single system.

Wikipedia’s JavaScript initialisation on a budget

This week saw the conclusion of a project that I’ve been shepherding on and off since September of last year. The goal was for the initialisation of our asynchronous JavaScript pipeline (at the time, 36 kilobytes in size) to fit within a budget of 28 KB – the size of two 14 KB bursts of Internet packets.