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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 07/10/2026

Updated "Wikibase Hosting Options Compared" for 2026 #WikibaseCloud has a new hosting policy, and our dedicated #MediaWiki hosting now gets you additional #Wikibase extensions, DPA, and encrypted second-provider backups. professional.wiki/en/articles/... Anything else that should be included?

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Wikibase Hosting Options Compared

Compare Wikibase Cloud, self-hosting with Wikibase Suite, and managed Wikibase hosting: costs, features, the new hosting policy, and which fits you.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 03/10/2026

🚨 MediaWiki security release: upgrade to 1.43.11, 1.45.6 or 1.46.2. Also upgrade your extensions! External Data before 3.7 allows unauthenticated remote code execution and is being exploited 🤯 If you run it, check for intrusions. lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/l... #MediaWiki #Security

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MediaWiki Extensions and Skins Security Release Supplement (1.43.10/1.45.5/1.46.1) - MediaWiki-announce - lists.wikimedia.org

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 29/09/2026

Semantic MediaWiki 7.3.0 and 7.3.1 are out. Both improve security, so we recommend upgrading to 7.3.1. Nearly all fixed issues also affect older versions, and only SMW 7 gets security fixes. professional.wiki/en/news/semantic-mediawiki-7-3-released @semanticmw.bsky.social #MediaWiki #Security

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Semantic MediaWiki 7.3 Released

Semantic MediaWiki 7.3.0 and 7.3.1 fix 21 security advisories, most also affecting older SMW versions. See what changed and how to upgrade to 7.3.1.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 21/09/2026

Maps 14.2.1 and 15.0.0 are out. Security release, upgrade recommended. 14.2.1 fixes an SSRF issue in the Leaflet geojson parameter. Maps 15 makes it the default: kml and geojson only load files on your wiki. github.com/ProfessionalWiki/Maps/blob/15.0.0/RELEASE-NOTES.md #MediaWiki #Security

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Maps/RELEASE-NOTES.md at 15.0.0 · ProfessionalWiki/Maps

🗺 Maps is the MediaWiki extension that enables visualization of geographic data via dynamic embedded maps. - ProfessionalWiki/Maps

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 08/09/2026

Use AI with #Wikibase and #Wikidata! Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client to Wikidata and your Wikibase via our open-source MCP server. Run queries without knowing SPARQL, create and enrich items. professional.wiki/en/articles/wikidata-and-wikibase-with-ai @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 02/09/2026

Same question, different user, different answer, by design! An admin asks about executive pay and gets a cited answer. A regular employee gets none: your #MediaWiki chatbot only draws on pages the user may read. professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant #Privacy #KnowledgeManagement

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 19/08/2026

Choose the AI behind your wiki's answers! Configure your #MediaWiki chatbot via the admin panel: Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Apertus, or your own self-hosted model. Tune the chat features and apply your branding. professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant #SelfHosted #KnowledgeManagement

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 13/08/2026

Ask your wiki in any language! The AI Assistant replies in your language, even when the wiki content is in another. A German question on an English wiki gets a German answer, with citations. professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant #MediaWiki #Wiki #KnowledgeManagement

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 03/08/2026

Get sources for every answer! Ask your wiki a question and the AI Assistant answers from your content, citing the pages it drew from. Click through and verify it yourself. professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant #MediaWiki #Wiki #KnowledgeManagement

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 22/07/2026

Chameleon 6 is out 🎉 The highly flexible #MediaWiki skin now builds on #Bootstrap 5: all Bootstrap 5 classes work in your wikitext, and many customizations are now plain CSS edits instead of SCSS recompiles. Discover what's new: professional.wiki/en/news/chameleon-6-0-0-released #OpenSource

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Chameleon 6: Now on Bootstrap 5

Chameleon 6 upgrades the MediaWiki skin to Bootstrap 5.3 and Font Awesome 6 via Extension:Bootstrap 6. Learn what changed, the new requirements, and how to migrate.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 20/07/2026

Instant answers from your wiki! Get answers grounded in your wiki content with source citations. AI Assistant, our #MediaWiki chatbot, answers in your language, only from pages you may read. You choose the AI provider. professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant #Wiki #KnowledgeManagement

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 18/07/2026

Semantic MediaWiki 7.2.0 is out 🎉 Store and show values in one set call with +display, link to property pages with property_link, security improvements. Upgrade recommended. Discover what's new: professional.wiki/en/news/semantic-mediawiki-7-2-0-released #SemanticMediaWiki #MediaWiki #OpenSource

A Semantic MediaWiki page on a site called Platform Docs, titled Meridian Falls. The upper code block shows the wikitext source with two parser calls, property_link and set with a +display option; the lower block shows the rendered sentence 'Meridian Falls has a population of 812,405', where 'population' is a link to the property page, with a Facts box below listing Has population 812,405. The intro line reads: Store and show a value in one #set call, and link to a property from running text, since Semantic MediaWiki 7.2.0.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 17/07/2026

Native Markdown 1.2.0 is out! Fenced code blocks on #Markdown pages are now syntax highlighted with Pygments, exactly like wikitext ones. Plus a script that bulk-converts existing pages to Markdown, and thumbnail embed fixes. professional.wiki/en/extension/native-markdown #MediaWiki #OpenSource

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Jeroen De Dauw @jeroendedauw.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Odd that no proper Markdown integration for #MediaWiki existed yet. The world uses Markdown, now your wiki can too! No more mistyped link syntax :)

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Jeroen De Dauw @jeroendedauw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Big win for @semanticmw.bsky.social! Our MediaWiki MCP server now allows editing and querying without extensive knowledge of SMW syntax. Less friction, less learning curve! 🚀

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 09/06/2026

Semantic MediaWiki 7 is here 🎉 The biggest release in years: significantly faster, easier to install, and with added support for #MediaWiki 1.45 and 1.46. 24 notable enhancements and 32 bug fixes. Discover what's new: professional.wiki/en/news/sema... @semanticmw.bsky.social is #OpenSource

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Semantic MediaWiki 7 Released

Semantic MediaWiki 7 is faster, easier to install, and adds MediaWiki 1.45 and 1.46 support. Discover the highlights, updated extensions, and how to upgrade.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 08/06/2026

Embrace sovereign AI via self-hosting or use the new support for Mistral or Apertus. Ground your AI via knowledge managed in the #OpenSource #MediaWiki platform, be it via Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini or the European providers. professional.wiki/en/mediawiki...

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 02/06/2026

Our customer Kunstenpunt shares their #Wikibase success story on the @wikimediade.bsky.social blog: tech-news.wikimedia.de/2026/06/02/k... In the blog, @ruettetom.bsky.social lists game changing Wikibase extensions, shares the story of choosing #MediaWiki + Wikibase, and shows off some nifty tools.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 09/04/2026

Page Approvals is now available for MediaWiki 1.45 professional.wiki/en/extension... #MediaWiki #KnowledgeManagement #QualityControl #OpenSource

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 09/04/2026

Choose how long your wiki chatbot thinks before answering One of several recent enhancements to our AI Assistant for #MediaWiki Discover what it can do for you via professional.wiki/en/mediawiki...

Wiki chatbot with a thinking mode toggle and arrow pointing to it

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 26/03/2026

Discover #NeoWiki, MediaWiki #MCP, and #Wikibase extensions via our recap of the #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference NeoWiki is the modern #OpenSource collaborative knowledge management solution. Co-presented with @krabina.bsky.social professional.wiki/en/news/our-...

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Introducing NeoWiki and More at MUDCon

Professional Wiki at MUDCon: introducing NeoWiki for modern structured data, Wikibase extensions overview, and the MediaWiki MCP Server for AI integration.

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Jeroen De Dauw @jeroendedauw.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Context over 80% is the new battery under 20%

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 05/03/2026

You can now ask your MediaWiki questions in natural language. We compare five chatbot extensions for MediaWiki. Discover which one fits your use case. professional.wiki/en/articles/... #MediaWiki #AI #KnowledgeManagement #OpenSource #RAG

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MediaWiki Chatbot Extensions Compared

Compare AI Assistant, Wanda, KZChatbot, AskAI, and Chatbot for MediaWiki. Feature comparison, setup complexity, and recommendations to help you choose.

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Jeroen De Dauw @jeroendedauw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Plot twist: software development in 2026 apparently entails learning #tmux

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Jeroen De Dauw @jeroendedauw.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Step aside, "one more turn" Hello, "one more prompt" #ClaudeCode makes work addictive

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Jeroen De Dauw @jeroendedauw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

In the age of AI, comments that explain what code does are even worse. Before AI, you'd already want to avoid such comments in favour of self-explanatory #CleanCode. Comments can drift and be wrong. AI can cheaply explain code. Comments that cache human thought are now doubly not needed.

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Jeroen De Dauw @jeroendedauw.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

You know the saying: surround yourself with great people Do this online by being selective about your information sources Discover my high-signal picks in www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2026/01...

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High Density Information Sources in 2026 - Blog of Jeroen De Dauw

Algorithms exploit dopamine hits for engagement. AI slop is everywhere. Mainstream media is agenda-driven. You are busy as it is.…

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 07/10/2025

Increase trust in your #KnowledgeBase via approval workflows with our new #OpenSource #MediaWiki extension. Discover what it can do for you, how it differs from existing solutions, and how it plays nicely with embedded content, like @semanticmw.bsky.social queries: www.pro.wiki/news/mediawi...

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Approval Workflows for MediaWiki | ProWiki Blog

Increase trust in your knowledge base via approval workflows. Discover new approval extension for enterprises.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 06/10/2025

Nowadays it is tricky to avoid spam from bots and AI agents on your #MediaWiki Luckily there are easy to use #OpenSource solutions that beat the bots, when used correctly Discover how to protect your wiki with bot-proof captcha questions via our new anti-spam guide: www.pro.wiki/articles/pre...

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Avoid Spam from Bots and AI Agents | ProWiki Blog

Prevent spam on your wiki. Discover how to stop AI agents from creating user accounts on your wiki.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 23/09/2025

Level up the searchability of your Wikibase data! Read the latest post on the @wikimediade.bsky.social Tech Blog on the new Wikibase Faceted Search extension. Discover what the extension can do for you and the story of how it came to be. tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/09/19/e...

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Enhanced Search for Wikibase - Wikimedia Tech News

Wikibase Faceted Search enhances MediaWiki's search with faceted search capabilities.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 24/07/2025

We released Semantic MediaWiki 5.1.0 Find more details about this minor release at github.com/SemanticMedi.... Due to lack of bug fixes, upgrading to this version of @semanticmw.bsky.social is not essential. Beware that git master is dropping support for #MediaWiki older than 1.43 LTS.

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Jeroen De Dauw @jeroendedauw.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Recent software changes: Firefox -> Librewolf Android -> GrapheneOS Authy -> Aegis Firefox Mobile -> Fennec AccuWeather -> Breezy Weather Google Search -> DuckDuckGo [FREEDOM INTENSIFIES]

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 08/07/2025

MediaWiki 1.44 is out! Improved user blocking, patrolling, redirects, file security, and more 🚀 Discover the #MediaWiki 1.44 highlights www.pro.wiki/news/whats-n...

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Highlights from MediaWiki 1.44 | ProWiki Blog

Explore what’s changed in MediaWiki 1.44.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 04/06/2025

Faceted search for your #Wikibase?! Yes you can! Via the new Wikibase Faceted Search extension for #MediaWiki. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxKW...

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Faceted Search for Wikibase

YouTube video by Professional Wiki

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 14/04/2025

Semantic MediaWiki 5 Released! The long-awaited Semantic MediaWiki 5 is here! Discover the improvements it brings. professional.wiki/en/news/sema... Among the highlights is support for #MediaWiki 1.43, the latest LTS version.

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Semantic MediaWiki 5 Released

We released Semantic MediaWiki 5. Discover what is new and if you should upgrade.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 10/04/2025

Enhance your #Wikibase with #MediaWiki extensions! Check out our curated list of top 16 most useful Wikibase extensions: professional.wiki/en/articles/... These extensions provide better search, data display, quality controls, export, media support, and integrations.

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Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions

Explore when Wikibase excels and when to consider alternatives. Learn about its strengths, limitations, and common use cases.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 09/04/2025

What are the top #MediaWiki extensions in 2025? It can be tough to find the extensions you need among the thousands of options. Our curated list of most useful extensions is here to help you. www.pro.wiki/articles/bes... All these extensions are #OpenSource and well maintained.

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Best MediaWiki Extensions in 2025 | ProWiki Blog

Supercharge your wiki with the best MediaWiki extensions.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 08/04/2025

Our popular responsive #MediaWiki theme Chameleon now supports MediaWiki 1.44 Chameleon tops our list of best MediaWiki themes: www.pro.wiki/articles/bes... See the recent enhancements at github.com/Professional...

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Best MediaWiki Themes in 2025 | ProWiki Blog

Find the best theme for your wiki via our expert-curated list of modern MediaWiki themes.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 03/04/2025

We created ascript to export #Wikibase constraint violations. Get it via github.com/Professional... Thanks to Clair Kronk at Mount Sinai for funding this new open source Wikibase tool.

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 10/02/2025

Make your wiki look great! ✨ We compiled a list of the top #MediaWiki themes in 2025. These themes are responsive, customizable, and support MediaWiki 1.43 and the preceding two LTS releases. Find the top 5 MediaWiki skins below 🡇

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 24/12/2024

#MediaWiki 1.43 LTS is out! Long Term Support till December 2027 and many changes. Discover the highlights! www.pro.wiki/news/what-ne...

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Exploring the MediaWiki 1.43 LTS Release: Key Features and Changes | ProWiki Blog

Discover what is new in the MediaWiki 1.43 Long-Term Support release.

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BlueSpice Galaxy @bluespice-wiki.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🥳 We are thrilled to work together with @prowiki.bsky.social. This opens up many new opportunities for our customers. #BlueSpice #MediaWiki #Wiki #EnterpriseWiki #KnowledgeManagement #KnowledgeBase #Documentation #OpenSource

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 04/12/2024

Do you like #Wikibase or #SemanticMediaWiki? Why not both? Enter #SemanticWikibase. Check out the latest progress, as presented at the recent #MediaWiki conference by @jeroendedauw.bsky.social, Lozana Rossenova, and Kolja Bailly. professional.wiki/en/news/conn...

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 04/12/2024

Discover highlights from the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference: professional.wiki/en/news/medi... * Connecting #Wikibase and @semanticmw.bsky.social * Factors Influencing Wiki Success (by @krabina.bsky.social) * Wikimedia's Strategic Plan for #MediaWiki 1/2

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2024 MediaWiki Conference Highlights

Highlights from the 2024 MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference. Quickly catch up on the latest MediaWiki news and developments.

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