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Building a Multi-Language Wiki with MediaWiki's Translate Extension

The Translate extension is the usual choice when a MediaWiki site needs structured translation work inside the wiki itself. It is not just a language switcher. It adds translation pages, message groups, review tools, statistics, and permissions for people who prepare content and people who translate it. Start with the

Improving Template Documentation with TemplateData Extension in MediaWiki

Why template documentation matters – and how TemplateData helps

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 Enable and Configure VisualEditor for Collaborative Editing in MediaWiki

VisualEditor gives MediaWiki users a true WYSIWYG experience, letting them edit pages without learning wikitext syntax

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

Deploying MediaWiki with Docker Compose – A Practical Guide

Why Docker Compose for MediaWiki? MediaWiki powers Wikipedia and thousands of community wikis. Running it in Docker gives you isolation, repeatable builds and easy scaling. Docker is the official container platform supported by the MediaWiki project, and the MediaWiki‑Docker development environment provides a ready‑made docker‑compose.yml that