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Exploring MediaWiki's Latest Security Enhancements

What’s New in MediaWiki’s Security Toolbox? So you’ve been running a MediaWiki site for a while, maybe even a modest Wikimedia clone for your organization. You’ve patched, you’ve applied the “hardening checklist”, and you still wonder: What fresh defenses does the platform now throw at

Integrating GPT‑4 into MediaWiki: A Step‑by‑Step Guide

Overview Large‑language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT‑4 can turn a plain MediaWiki installation into an intelligent knowledge‑assistant. This guide walks you through the entire process – from acquiring an API key to deploying a reusable extension that embeds a GPT‑4 chat widget on every page.

Configuring MediaWiki for Multilingual Support with Translate Extension

Why Multilingual MediaWiki Matters Imagine a community wiki that only speaks English while half of its contributors type in Spanish, Japanese, or Swahili. The knowledge stays locked behind a language wall, and the project stalls. MediaWiki, the engine behind Wikipedia, can break that barrier—if you empower it with the

Enhancing MediaWiki with Custom Skins

Ever Stared at That Plain MediaWiki Interface and Thought, "This Needs Pizzazz"? You know how it is. You're knee-deep in setting up a wiki for your project, maybe a fan site for that obscure band or a knowledge base for your team's wild ideas.

Hidden power of MediaWiki AbuseFilter extension

Hidden power of MediaWiki AbuseFilter extension MediaWiki ships with a surprisingly flexible anti‑vandalism engine: AbuseFilter. While most administrators use it for the obvious tasks—blocking spam links or preventing mass edits—there are a handful of lesser‑known features that can turn a modest filter set into a proactive

10 Things You Did Not Know MediaWiki Can Do

Hide Categories, Collapse Sections, Temporary Accounts and more

How to add Google Analytics to your MediaWiki

Analytics give you insight into visitor behaviour, page popularity and the impact of new content

Mastering MediaWiki: A Deep Dive into the Content Translation Extension

Why “Content Translation” Matters (and why it isn’t just another plug‑in) Picture this: you’ve just written a solid article on “Quantum tunneling” in English, and a handful of volunteers in Spain, Japan, and Brazil are itching to read it in their native tongues. You could copy‑paste

How to Deploy MediaWiki Using Docker Compose for Rapid Setup and Management

Introduction MediaWiki powers Wikipedia and thousands of other wikis. Running it on a bare‑metal server is possible, but for most teams the real advantage comes from containerisation: a single command can spin up a fully functional wiki, and the whole stack can be version‑controlled, reproduced and moved between

How to Integrate MediaWiki with LDAP for Single Sign‑On

MediaWiki can authenticate users directly against an Active Directory (AD) or any LDAP directory