Explore wiki project data faster with mwsql
Learn how the mwsql library makes it easier to download and work with SQL dump files in formats like Pandas dataframes or CSV.
Category: Learning & How To
What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles… in Rust
MediaWiki page titles are the primary identifiers for all wiki content – learn how they are validated, normalized and parsed and what it took to do so in Rust.
How we deploy code
In this post, you’ll learn about the complexities of keeping the deployment train running.
Call for smaller language wikis to participate in the technical capacity-building program!
Learn more about how to participate in the small wiki toolkits initiative.
Alone together: Wikimedia Hackathon 2021
Wikimedia’s 2021 Hackathon brought participants from all over the globe together online. This post explored the event and its outcomes.
Discovering and fixing CVE-2021-33038 in Mailman3
During Wikimedia’s Mailman3 migration, we discovered and fixed a security issue that would have disclosed the contents of private list archives during the import process. This post explains the issue, how we discovered it and how it was fixed.
Make your technical work on Wikimedia projects more fabulous with these Phabricator video tutorials
What is Phabricator? How does it work? Learn about a set of new video tutorials that can help you learn how to use the collaboration tool used by folks working in Wikimedia’s technical spaces.
Diving into Wikipedia’s ocean of errors
This blog post documents how we prioritized debugging an issue on mobile; how we went about implementing a solution; and what we learned from the experience.
Designing technical workshops for the Indic community
This blog post summarizes planning that went into designing a technical workshop series for the Indic community, key outcomes, success stories, lessons learned, and some next steps! It targets potential organizers who might be interested in conducting similar training in their wiki community.
An Orca screen reader tutorial
This tutorial covers how to install, set up and use Orca on Linux systems, with sighted developers, product managers, and user experience designers in mind. Orca is a screen reader available on Linux which is being continuously developed as part of the GNOME project. It is probably the best choice to test screen reader conformance when developing on Linux.