mediawiki

Getting a Grip on MediaWiki Caching Imagine you’re running a community encyclopedia that spikes every time a hot topic lands on the front page. If each request has to rebuild the page from scratch, the server will choke faster than a smoker on a windy day. The good news?

Why PHP 8 and Redis matter for a busy MediaWiki Picture a wiki that serves a few hundred edits a day. It runs comfortably on PHP 7, APCu, and the default file‑based cache. Now scale that up to a university‑wide knowledge base or a community‑driven documentation portal

Ever tried to read a wiki that suddenly switched from English to Japanese mid‑article? It feels like walking into a café and finding the menu printed in three different scripts. That is the kind of delightful chaos you get when a MediaWiki instance starts serving content in more than

Why “advanced” really matters

Why Your Wiki Needs a Little Extra Muscle Ever opened a MediaWiki site and thought, “this could use a splash of colour, a pinch of interactivity, maybe a dash of data‑validation?” You’re not alone. The core MediaWiki engine is rock‑solid, but it’s also a bit like

Why the “if” matters more than you think Picture this: you’re fiddling with an infobox on a fandom wiki and suddenly the table decides to spit out a blank line because a single parameter slipped through the cracks. In the wild world of MediaWiki, that’s not a bug