View source for MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025

[[mw:MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025|MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025]] (MW.org) links to https://meza.wiki for the '[https://meza.wiki/mwplus/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Workshop_Spring_2025 workshop website]' listing the full itinerary and much more. The [https://www.youtube.com/@emwcon3497/videos YouTube channel] has a playlist of the presentations.
== Event-like hooks are changing ==
There are many, many hooks in MediaWiki core. Some (20%?) are event oriented. Those are changing to use an event-based architecture in Core rather than an ill-fitted hook-based architecture. Dan Kinzler gave a presentation: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZ9VMjrEWY From Hooks to Events:  evolving MediaWiki's extension interfaces] - which I should probably listen to again. The event system was implemented in core back in 2015/2016<ref>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116786</ref>

see also:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventBus


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== Wiki hosters ==
* indie.io is part of the wiki.gg family - where River works.
* https://www.indie.io/terms-of-service



== Shellbox ==
Shellbox https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Shellbox is a library ([https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-libs-Shellbox/tree/master GitHub mirror repo]) for remote command execution, and a server for secure command execution. This means that you can do stuff like image handling or video transcoding, or Pygmetize syntax highlighting etc. without needed specific libraries, utilities, or applications installed on your web nodes. Wikimedia uses Kubernetes to run [[mw:Shellbox]] and has a Helm chart that may be reusable. There was some discussion at the conference of using it to run the job queue? I'm not sure. In any case, if you look at the Wikitech sidebar/infobox Shellbox is distinct from the JobQueue system. 

Manual: [[mw:Manual:BoxedCommand]]

Wikimedia Tech Infrastructure - SRE perspective<ref>https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure</ref>
# Application servers
# PHP 7 and php-fpm
# BounceHandler
# Citoid
# Dumps
# Envoy
# EtcdConfig for MediaWiki
# External storage
# MediaWiki HTTP cache headers
# MediaWiki On Kubernetes
# mw-cron jobs
# MediaWiki Maintenance scripts
# MediaWiki JobQueue
# Mathoid
# Memcached
# mw-mcrouter
# Mcrouter runbook
# Nutcracker
# Parser cache
# Redis
# Shellbox
# Videoscaling

== Community Growth ==
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Advancement/Community_Growth/Community_Resources_and_Partnerships


== REST API ==
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API


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