MediaWiki-based consulting, development and hosting
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WikiWorks retweeted
An new Pleias paper: in collaboration with AI Bridges and @Wikimedia Deutschland we developed a new harness for complex semantic search over the largest knowledge database, @wikidata
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What happens when a Wikipedia language edition starts using LLMs?
Unlike in other languages, Korean Wikipedia embraced LLMs through WikiVault: only 0.1% of editors use it weekly, but it accounts for ~30% of added bytes!
New preprint led by @song_inhwa_ (who's at @ACM_CSCW)
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New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Christian Erlinger, a GLAM consultant and organizer of next month's MUDCon.
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WikiWorks retweeted
A new Signpost is out!
* US-based Wikimedia Foundation staff vote to unionize
* Have UN Secretary-General candidates manipulated Wikipedia?
* Report on Wiki Conference India 2026
* Obituary: Gobonobo, community leader advocating for women and minorities
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ALT Photo of Wikimedians of Minnesota co-founder Gobonobo cropped from a group photo. Original caption of group photo: "participants in the 2025 Minnesota Wikipedia Day at the Rondo Community Library" (by Rondo star librarian, CC0)
New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: clips from recent episodes with Sandra Fauconnier (@sanseveria), Ad Strack van Schijndel, Daniel Dobriy (@semantic42), Cory Massaro and @ShaniEvenstein.
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WikiWorks retweeted
It was a pleasure to be hosted a second time in the Between the Brackets podcast, for a broad conversation covering topics like #CapeVerde at the World Cup, #Wikimania2026 & its Team Challenges #hackathon, Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions, #unionization at the WMF, and more.
New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Waldir Pimento (@waldyrious), developer and co-founder of Wikimedia Portugal. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.co…
New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Waldir Pimento (@waldyrious), developer and co-founder of Wikimedia Portugal. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.co…
WikiWorks retweeted
In the latest Signpost:
▸ Unionization effort of Wikimedia staff progresses, unanswered questions about law firm remain
▸ Raju Narisetti leaves WMF board
▸ A tell-all interview with Baby Globe at Wikimania
and more:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
ALT "Wikimania 2026 in Paris by Dyolf77 ZVE01010" (CC BY-SA 4.0)
WikiWorks retweeted
In the latest Signpost:
▸ Wikimedia staff demand voluntary union recognition, WMF refuses and insists on vote
▸ Is Larry Sanger the co-founder of Wikipedia?
▸ Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026
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New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Matthew Shell, creator of the new wiki farm goalstriving.org.
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WikiWorks retweeted
Wikipedia's ex-founder here. Four consequential policy discussions are happening on Wikipedia right now. Three of them would empower mainstream media to control what the encyclopedia says, and more importantly, what it doesn't say. A thread. 🧵 👇
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We've released Chameleon 6!
The highly flexible MediaWiki skin now builds on Bootstrap 5: all Bootstrap 5 classes and utilities work in your wikitext and templates, and many customizations are plain CSS edits instead of SCSS recompiles.
Links below 👇
New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Shani Evenstein Sigalov (@ShaniEvenstein), longtime Wikimedian and creator of the AI-BRIDGES project.
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Mentions "Working with MediaWiki"!
A new Signpost is out:
* Wikipedia escapes "existential threat" of Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act - for now
* Larry Sanger community-banned after canvassing for "Wikiproject Intellectual Diversity"
* How to host a "Wikicurious" event en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Abstract Wikipedia developer Cory Massaro.
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WikiWorks retweeted
In our new issue:
*WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking backlash over Wishlist future and unionization concerns
*Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there's a different story about Wikimedia + AI
*Checking in 12 years after PR firms' declaration on COI editing
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