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Open source knowledge management with #MediaWiki & @neowiki.ai Run by @jeroendedauw.bsky.social and @khoffmeyer.bsky.social Also #Wikibase #SemanticMediaWiki #Wikidata #KnowledgeGraphs #OpenSource professional.wiki | neowiki.ai

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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 3h
🚨 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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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 13/07/2026
Write your wiki pages in Markdown! We've released Native Markdown, a new #OpenSource #MediaWiki extension. The entire page is stored as #Markdown and rendered as a real wiki page: links, categories, search, even templates. professional.wiki/en/news/native-markdown-released
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Native Markdown for MediaWiki
Markdown as a native MediaWiki content model: wiki links, categories, templates, and search, with pages directly readable and writable by AI agents. Free and open source.
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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 30/06/2026
We've released AI support for Semantic MediaWiki! Connect Claude, ChatGPT & other AI tools to your @semanticmw.bsky.social via our open source #MCP server. Let them run queries or even edit on your behalf. professional.wiki/en/news/sema... #SemanticMediaWiki #MediaWiki #OpenSource
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Use Semantic MediaWiki with AI
The MediaWiki MCP Server now has dedicated Semantic MediaWiki support. Point an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT at your wiki to run #ask queries and build your structured data in plain language.
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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 · 10/04/2026
SubPageList 4.0 is out now! Get sub page listing for your wiki, now with support for #MediaWiki 1.45. professional.wiki/en/extension... #MediaWiki #OpenSource #KnowledgeManagement
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SubPageList
List subpages and customize display via the parser function provided by this lightweight MediaWiki extension.
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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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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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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 · 03/09/2025
We released Semantic Result Formats 5.1.0, which brings improve support for #MediaWiki 1.43 LTS and enhancments for the filtered, datatables, graph, and d3chart formats. It is compatible with @semanticmw.bsky.social 5.x and 6.x Learn more at www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensi...
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Extension "Semantic Result Formats" - semantic-mediawiki.org
Semantic Result Formats. From semantic-mediawiki.org
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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 25/08/2025
Did you know that you can use "slash commands" in MediaWiki? Increase your productivity by getting this new feature via our free and #OpenSource Slash Commands #MediaWiki extension. Get started via www.pro.wiki/news/Slash-C...
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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 25/07/2025
Font Awesome 7 is now available for #MediaWiki! Get it via github.com/Professional...
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GitHub - ProfessionalWiki/FontAwesome: Allows to insert Font Awesome Free icons in page
Allows to insert Font Awesome Free icons in page. Contribute to ProfessionalWiki/FontAwesome development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Semantic MediaWiki @semanticmw.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The #MediaWiki Users and Developers Congerence Fall 2025 will take place from October 28-30 in #Hanover, Germany. www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWi... #MUDCon #SMWCon #EMWCon #SemanticMW
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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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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 · 04/04/2025
Embed content such as markdown files from a git repo into your #MediaWiki. We just released version 3.0.0 of the External Content extension, adding compatibility for MediaWiki 1.40 up to 1.43 LTS. External Content is free and #OpenSource software. Learn more at professional.wiki/en/extension...
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External Content
Embed and render markdown files into wiki pages. Learn more about the free and open-source External Content extension.
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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
Need help with theme installation, customization, or creation? Check out our top-grade #MediaWiki theming services at professional.wiki/en/mediawiki...
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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 10/02/2025
Check out the full list of top #MediaWiki themes at www.pro.wiki/articles/bes... The full list contains links to the documentation and example wikis, as well as additional example screenshots and more detailed descriptions.
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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 · 10/02/2025
Fifth place goes to Vector Or rather, to "Vector 2022", the modernized version of the Vector theme, which has been used on Wikipedia for over a decade. This new version of the classic #MediaWiki theme improved responsiveness, dark mode support, a collapsible sidebar, and more.
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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 10/02/2025
Fourth place goes to Timeless Timeless features a left sidebar for navigation and a right sidebar with links to tools. It comes bundled with #MediaWiki, so can be enabled with a single line of configuration. Naturally, it is also available on pro.wiki as the default theme for new wikis.
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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 10/02/2025
Third place goes to Citizen 🥉 Citizen is a relatively new #MediaWiki skin, and it entered our top 3 this year. Citizen is highly responsive and supports dark mode and switching between font sizes and layout widths. It is popular for community and game wikis.
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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 10/02/2025
Second place goes to Medik 🥈 Medik is a solid #MediaWiki theme that is great out of the box. It provides a clean and classic look, with a sidebar on the left. Medik is an excellent mobile theme and, like Chameleon, is available on pro.wiki.
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Professional Wiki @professional.wiki · 10/02/2025
First place goes to Chameleon 🏆 Chameleon is the most popular responsive #MediaWiki theme. It uses the Bootstrap framework and is highly customizable, though the powerful XML configuration language does come with a learning curve. Like all skins in this list, Chameleon is #OpenSource
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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
Our #MediaWiki services now include #BlueSpice enterprise wiki! Learn more at professional.wiki/en/news/blue... #KnowledgeManagment #wiki #EnterpriseWiki #KnowledgeBase #OpenSource #ContentManagement
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We Partner with HalloWelt to Provide BlueSpice
Professional Wiki provides professional BlueSpice services via our partnership with HalloWelt! GmbH.
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