Improving Template Documentation with TemplateData Extension in MediaWiki
Why template documentation matters – and how TemplateData helps
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Building Custom Widgets for MediaWiki Using the Widgets Extension
Why “Widgets” Even Matter in a MediaWiki World
Getting Started with Echo Notifications in MediaWiki
Why Echo Matters (and why you might be reading this mid‑sentence)
Discovering MediaWiki 1.44: Key Features for Developers
Why MediaWiki 1.44 matters to the code‑savvy
Whats New in MediaWiki 1.43.0: Key Features and Updates
So you’ve heard the buzz about MediaWiki 1.43.0, but the release notes read like a wall of technical jargon. Let’s cut through the noise and get to the meat of it – the bits that matter to editors, sysadmins, and developers alike.
Optimizing MediaWiki Performance through Custom Extension Development
Why a Custom Extension Can Be the Secret Sauce
When you first spin up MediaWiki on a modest server, everything feels snappy. Add a handful of pages, sprinkle a few templates, and—boom—your latency starts creeping up like a lazy cat. Sure, you could crank up MySQL buffers or
How to Secure Your MediaWiki Installation with Let’s Encrypt HTTPS
MediaWiki, the engine behind Wikipedia, stores user credentials, session cookies and often private content. When the site is served over plain HTTP the traffic travels in clear‑text, which makes it trivial for a network attacker to sniff passwords, hijack sessions or inject malicious content
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
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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