Introduced in version: 1.47.0

When enabled, only users with the editalluserpages right may edit other users' user pages: this applies to the whole User namespace (including subpages), but not to user talk pages.

This functionality is adapted from the UserPageEditProtection extension.

Chameleon 6 is out. This major release moves the MediaWiki skin from Bootstrap 4 to Bootstrap 5.

MediaWiki extension that makes Markdown a native content model. The content model determines the format in which MediaWiki stores and renders a page. So a Markdown page is not wikitext with some Markdown embedded inside of it. The whole page is Markdown, stored exactly as you typed it, and rendered as a real wiki page with working links, categories, templates, parser functions, a table of contents, and full-text search.

Though I have not tried this extension yet. This content model approach seems to be very Mediawiki-native and good.

Please note that the official announcement described it as a bridge to the AI agents. ProWiki is also developing and maintaining MediaWiki MCP.

All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

From the Discord

Announcing the availability of Bucket

We're happy to announce that the extension Bucket has been added to Miraheze and is immediately available for bureaucrats to enable without restriction. Developed by our friends from Weird Gloop, it is a lightweight extension for storing and querying structured data, meaning it can serve as a replacement for Cargo and Semantic MediaWiki. Going forward, we will be recommending it to all wikis with structured data needs.

Tech team members <@879296162228731954> and <@696929642480664586> have also prepared modules with which you'll quickly be able to put Bucket to use. You can find them, and some examples, at https://bucket.miraheze.org/. They'll also be happy to help with any questions or issues you may have with their interface or the extension itself.

A huge thank you goes to TheWWRNerdGuy, our fresh MediaWiki Specialist, who has been extensively testing Bucket for compatibility. Be sure to thank and congratulate him!

NeoWiki, a new open-source MediaWiki extension for structured data

This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers.

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Product and Technology team has notified the OpenStreetMap Foundation system administrators that access to Wikimedia APIs for the OSM wiki may be restricted due to inefficient use of Wikimedia Commons images. To avoid a potential block, the team has requested that image requests be limited to standard thumbnail sizes. As a result, minor adjustments to thumbnail dimensions may appear across the wiki in the coming days, and any resulting layout issues are being monitored.

I think this might happen to you if your MediaWiki wiki is extremely large and doing the same thing to the OSM wiki.

DPL3(DynamicPageList3) is a beloved extension serving as a swiss army knife. Version 3 signifies that two maintenance person/team have been replaced. The current version 4 was released by a MediaWiki expert belonging to the Miraheze SRE team.

Something like MirahazeMagic I guess?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/41505509