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• Post #1985804

  🗳️📊 The results from the 2026 Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey are now available at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2026 This year, 207 respondents from the Wikimedia developer community answered questions about: :toolforge: #Wikimedia #Toolforge and Cloud VPS :mediawiki: #MediaWiki code quality 🔌 Wikimedia API use 📜 #Documentation 🔬 Research 🛠️ Developer tools and processes

• Post #915258

  Is that the sound of hackers tapping away the keyboard‽ The #Wikimedia #Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 has been happening in #Arnhem, in the #Netherlands. ℹ️ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_Northwestern_Europe_2026 📋 Phabricator Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/8517/ 📷 :commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Hackathon_Northwestern_Europe_2026 :wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136646116 #wmhnwe26 #wmhack

• Post #915257

  🛠️ Nominate your favourite tools for the seventh edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are open until 2026-03-23. The top tools will be announced at #Wikimania 2026. 🔗 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2026 #CoolestToolAward #Wikimedia #wmhack

• Post #292600

  💻 Do you interact with the #Wikimedia or #MediaWiki APIs? The @wikimediafoundation is looking for feedback. ℹ️ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/6ZRT4V5KA7JVJ6FXLJHAMII3MXVOZGYH/

• Post #292599

  📅 #OnThisDay (2012-03-22) Chad (^demon/😂) made the first official commit to the #MediaWiki core in Git using @gerritreview and #Git-Review as part of the #SVN to #Git conversion project. 💾 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/3316

• Post #292598

  🖥️📊 The December 2024 @wikimediafoundation developer satisfaction survey results have been published! 💻This survey is used by the #WikimediaFoundation to measure developer satisfaction in the #WikiMedia and #MediaWiki communities, & determine where to invest resources in the future. ℹ️ Read it, Analyse the Results, Talk about it, And ask questions!: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2025

• Post #292597

  #OnThisDay, 2006-04-01, #MediaWiki development moved from a #SourceForge hosted #CVS environment to #SVN after a extended outage of the SourceForge CVS service. The original SVN environment was hosted on @brooke's server until migrating to a @wikimediafoundation server on the 2007-05-31. ℹ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/History_of_MediaWiki_version_control

• Post #292596

  MediaWiki 1.44-beta has been branched. This is the first step in the release process for #MediaWiki 1.44.0, which should be out in June 2025 For more information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JT6QELB6V6HOT2T6QTVNGJVVNUJRVB2A/

• Post #292593

  🛠️ The sixth edition of the @wikimediafoundation Coolest Tool Award is now open for nominations and we want to hear from everyone. Nominations are anonymous and open until 25 June 2025. You can nominate as many tools as you like, just fill out our brief survey for each one. ℹ️ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award

• Post #292590

  📣 New security and maintenance releases of supported #MediaWiki branches are out! MediaWiki 1.39.13, 1.42.7 and 1.43.2 have now been released. 🔗 https://w.wiki/EcV3 As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle, 1.42 has reached the formal end of life (EOL) as of Monday June 30, 2025. 1.42.7 is expected to be the last release of this branch. 🔗 https://w.wiki/EcU$

• Post #292589

  📣 New security and maintenance releases of supported :mediawiki: #MediaWiki branches are out! MediaWiki 1.39.15, 1.43.5 and 1.44.2 have now been released. ℹ️ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/TF4S5Y2324UIW3GOBPBWD2MSUSROG5GH/

• Post #292588

  📣 New security and maintenance releases of supported :mediawiki: #MediaWiki branches are out! MediaWiki 1.39.15, 1.43.5 and 1.44.2 have now been released. ℹ️ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/TF4S5Y2324UIW3GOBPBWD2MSUSROG5GH/

• Post #292587

  :wikimedia: Scholarship applications are now open for the #Wikimedia #Hackathon 2026 that will take place on May 1-3, 2026 in #Milan, #Italy. Scholarship applications are open until November 28, 2025. ℹ️ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2026 #wmhack2026 #WikimediaHackathon2026

• Post #292586

  🗳️ The @wikimediafoundation 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey is live. https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/552643 This survey is used to measure developer satisfaction & determine where to invest resources in the future. Topics include: #Wikimedia Cloud Services, development and shared test environments, Phabricator, code review, continuous integration, deployment, #MediaWiki core backend components and APIs, technical documentation, & research needs. ℹ️ For more info...

• Post #292585

  If you contribute via our Gerrit instance, work has been completed to move it behind the CDN to assist with issues relating to web scrapers. Everything is expected to work as usual without any changes needed. ℹ️ Full announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YBWTGZDAJTFCCZD4GER5HHZ52UCFAT7A/