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Sherri W (SyntaxSeed) @syntaxseed@phpc.social · Feb 04, 2026
The tech professional's quintessential dream of moving to a cabin in the woods. 😓 Had a benign action on a #MediaWiki instance triggering a ModSecurity false flag blocking my IP. I thought the entire server was down. Actually I had to disable a specific #ModSecurity rule. I'm a team of 1 managing these servers. This is a very lonely situation. Who could ever be expected to know what's happening?? It's just confused sysadmins and a lot of Googling. Brutal. #WebDev #Sysadmin #Devops #Ubuntu
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ProWiki @ProWiki@mastodon.social · Jul 22, 2026
Chameleon 6 is out 🎉 The highly flexible #MediaWiki skin now builds on #Bootstrap 5. All Bootstrap 5 classes and utilities work in your wikitext and templates, and thanks to CSS variables, many customizations that used to need an SCSS recompile are now plain CSS edits. Also new: Font Awesome 6. And the companion BootstrapComponents extension got a version 6 with Bootstrap 5 support. Discover what's new: https://professional.wiki/en/news/chameleon-6-0-0-released #OpenSource #SelfHosted #FOSS #Wiki @mediawiki@wikis.world
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ProWiki @ProWiki@mastodon.social · Jul 20, 2026
Instant answers from your wiki! Get answers grounded in your wiki content with source citations. The AI Assistant, our #MediaWiki chatbot, is permission-aware, answering only from pages you may read. It replies in your language, and you can customize it, use thinking mode, and resume previous conversations. You choose the AI provider: European providers and self-hosted models included. Learn more at https://professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant #Wiki #SelfHosted #KnowledgeManagement #DataSovereignty @mediawiki@wikis.world
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ProWiki @ProWiki@mastodon.social · Jul 17, 2026
Native Markdown 1.2.0 is out! Fenced code blocks on #Markdown pages are now syntax highlighted server-side with Pygments, via the bundled SyntaxHighlight extension, exactly like wikitext ones. Also new: a maintenance script that bulk-converts existing pages to the Markdown content model, by .md title suffix or per namespace. Plus several thumbnail embed fixes. Docs: https://professional.wiki/en/extension/native-markdown #MediaWiki #OpenSource #SelfHosted #FOSS @mediawiki@wikis.world
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ProWiki @ProWiki@mastodon.social · Jul 13, 2026
Write your wiki pages in Markdown! We've released Native Markdown, a new #OpenSource #MediaWiki extension. The entire page is stored as Markdown rather than embedded within wikitext via a tag. You get functioning links, categories, search, table of contents, and even templates and parser functions. Add it to existing wikis without breaking anything: existing pages stay wikitext, and new pages default to #Markdown. Learn more at https://professional.wiki/en/news/native-markdown-released #SelfHosted #FOSS #wiki @mediawiki@wikis.world
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vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!] @vv@solarpunk.moe · Jul 08, 2026
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any #mediawiki wizards want to solve my Cargo problem? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79976679/conditionally-formatting-a-template-based-on-count-of-a-cargo-query
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Apr 04, 2026
#MediaWiki question: Is there a way of blocking anonymous (i.e. "not logged in") users from accessing the "Special:RecentChanges" page? There are 3,809 such requests in my latest Apache logs alone, and I doubt that ordinary users are making _that_ many requests.
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matthew - retroedge.tech @matthew@social.retroedge.tech · Mar 04, 2026
I am happy with how this turned out. This is for a local startup business that wants an internal wiki (asked for mediawiki) and the ability to have more php-mariadb (mysql) custom web apps. Why a GUI for a server? Just in case it is needed. I am not going to be doing all the work and I want it as easy as possible to use. Linux Mint Debian Edition is a good fit, as then I can just treat it like a Debian server. That's similar to a lot of the other Linux consulting I do. I have a hard disk drive for versioned backup. Configured Time Shift to back up everything to it. Seems to work well, as I can browse the Timeshift snapshot in the file browser. I also set up MediaWiki for them. Learned a few things there. I had to set a root mariadb password. I customized it with a logo and also made some other adjustments to the MediaWiki LocalSettings.php file. #LinuxMint #Debian #Linux #MediaWiki #wiki
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Feb 12, 2026
RE: https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/115984654197203481 I am having a massive outage. Again. And the hosting provider doesn't allow the installation of additional tools that might help me get to the bottom of this. Now I am contemplating that I might host my own non-public #Apache server on my own desktop PC (running Windows 11) and run the #MediaWiki #PHP code there as a private instance for testing purposes. Whether I can replicate this problem there or not - either should be instructice. But since I am very much a newbie at this, can anyone point be to a good guide for this kind of thing?
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
Still trying to figure out my website outages. To recap: I have two #MediaWiki wikis and one #WordPress site. And there seems to be _some_ background process which starts soon after 23:00 UTC (or 24:00 in France, where the servers are located) which puts such a strain on the website that I get a lot of "504" errors for a few hours. The exact duration is variable - sometimes it lasts for one or two hours, and sometimes it lasts way into the morning. But I cannot identify what causes it from the Apache logs - there is no clear, consistent trigger to be found there. Last time I asked customer support, they suggested that I check my plugins and background processes. But I don't know enough about website administration to know where to look. For what it's worth, my WordPress website uses the following plugins (all updated to the latest versions): ActivityPub Contact Form 7 Include Mastodon Feed JM Twitter Cards Leaflet Map MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress TablePress WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) The site is here: https://sunkencastles.com/ The extensions on my wiki can be found here: https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Special:Version Does _anyone_ have any idea what kinds of background processes on MediaWiki or WordPress might cause this kind of outage, and how I could check it? #FediHelp
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Jan 30, 2026
Still trying to figure out my website outages. To recap: I have two #MediaWiki wikis and one #WordPress site. And there seems to be _some_ background process which starts soon after 23:00 UTC (or 24:00 in France, where the servers are located) which puts such a strain on the website that I get a lot of "504" errors for a few hours. The exact duration is variable - sometimes it lasts for one or two hours, and sometimes it lasts way into the morning. But I cannot identify what causes it from the Apache logs - there is no clear, consistent trigger to be found there. Last time I asked customer support, they suggested that I check my plugins and background processes. But I don't know enough about website administration to know where to look. For what it's worth, my WordPress website uses the following plugins (all updated to the latest versions): ActivityPub Contact Form 7 Include Mastodon Feed JM Twitter Cards Leaflet Map MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress TablePress WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) The site is here: https://sunkencastles.com/ The extensions on my wiki can be found here: https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Special:Version Does _anyone_ have any idea what kinds of background processes on MediaWiki or WordPress might cause this kind of outage, and how I could check it? #FediHelp
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Jan 29, 2026
#MediaWiki question: I want to use a screenshot of the interactive map embedded on the main page of the wiki as its social media preview card because that map is such an eye catcher. But I want to do so _without_ adding this screenshot to the actual page. The best I can think of is to cheat by adding this image with a scaled size of 1 pixel somewhere on the page so that it doesn't get noticed, but are there other options? https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page
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