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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

You'll find:

• Templates you can fork and make your own
• Case studies showing how others solved real problems with diagrams
• Before/after examples that show the power of "text to diagram"

But I'm disappointed to find out that it's just based on mermaid-ascii (and AI agents), rather than being something brand new.

Diagrams are essential for AI-assisted programming. When you're working with an AI coding assistant, being able to visualize data flows, state machines, and system architecture—directly in your terminal or chat interface—makes complex concepts instantly graspable.

The ASCII rendering engine is based on mermaid-ascii by Alexander Grooff. We ported it from Go to TypeScript and extended it. Thank you Alexander for the excellent foundation! (And inspiration that this was possible.)

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.

OpenChaos.dev is an experiment where the most upvoted pull request gets merged every day. Today’s winning PR added a 1.337% chance of serving a blank page. And Vercel, doing exactly what it’s supposed to do, cached it. So a probabilistic failure became a permanent outage.