Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on November 28th at 16:00 UTC! If you’d like to join,
simply sign up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. For example, in our upcoming meeting, we plan
to hear from contributors of the Wikitongues project and Fante
Wikimedia Community.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d
love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda
items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-nov-2025>.
Also, we’d like to highlight that the 9th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (October 2025)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is
now available. This newsletter provides updates from the July–September
2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various
language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay
updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Language_and_Internationalization…>
on
its wiki page.
Are you interested in contributing to the technical work around language
development? See a curated list of technical contribution tasks here:
T407935 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407935>.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on February 27th at 16:00 UTC! If you’d like to join,
simply sign up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Pr…>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. In our upcoming meeting, we’ll hear about a
new Wikidata Visibility Initiative and updates on the CapX Translat-a-thon.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d
love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda
items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-feb-2026>.
Also, we’d like to highlight that the 10th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (February 2026)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is now available. This newsletter provides updates from the
October–December 2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in
various language-related projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Feel free to translate this message into your local language and share it
on your village pump or other community channels to help spread the word.
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
As a researcher, I came across a highly intensive and inclusive book called
"The Internet Ecosystem". The book englobes the whole Internet history. I
have just completed the reading, I will highly recommend it and it has
useful information. The book was reviewed by Vint Cerf, the founder of the
Internet. Use: *INTECO10 *coupon code to get the book at a discounted
price. You will find more information in the email below.
Professor Peter Anderson
Head of Research
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*From:* Nikesh B. Simmandree <nikeshbs(a)outlook.com>
*Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2025 1:35 PM
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*Subject:* Launch of The Internet Ecosystem Book
Dear Community,
I am thrilled to announce the launch of my book, *The Internet Ecosystem* —
a comprehensive exploration of the history, architecture, governance, and
future of the Internet.
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packet switching, to AI, Web3, quantum networks, and beyond — into a clear,
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*What the Book Covers*
- *The Past:* How Cold War research, ARPANET, and packet switching gave
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- *The Future:* Insights into 5G/6G, blockchain, immersive technologies,
quantum security, and the Internet in 2050.
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approachable reference for students, professionals, policymakers, and
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complexity understandable — showing not only *how* the Internet works, but
also *why* it matters and has become one of the most transformative human
inventions — while sparking dialogue on how we build a secure, inclusive,
and sustainable digital future.
In the 21st century, understanding the Internet is not optional — it’s
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clarity you need to navigate the opportunities and challenges of our
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*Get Your Copy*
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Thank you,
Best Regards,
Nikesh B. Simmandree
(If you don't work with the imagelinks or categorylinks tables, you can ignore this message)
Hello,
Here is an update on the ongoing normalization of the MediaWiki link tables.
Starting 1 March, the cl_to and il_to columns in the categorylinks and imagelinks tables will be removed. You will need to use cl_target_id and il_target_id, respectively, and join against the linktarget table instead. This is analogous to the templatelinks normalization done a few years ago.
Additionally, the cl_collation column in the categorylinks table will be removed. Please use cl_collation_id joined with the collation table instead.
If your tools or queries access these tables directly, please update them to use the new schema before 1 March.
Progress is tracked at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300222
Background/rationale: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224
Thank you,
Alexander Vorwerk — IRC: Zabe
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Summary:
The Cloud Services implementation of Superset
(https://superset.wmcloud.org) is currently unsupported by WMF staff. We
would welcome a volunteer stepping up to maintain it, but without a new
home the service will be shut down at the end of March.
If you would like to take on ownership of this service, please reach out
to WMCS staffor comment on the phabricator task[1]. The day-to-day
maintenance load is minimal, but someone will need to keep track up
updates, security concerns and a potential future of defense against AI
scraping.
Background:
There has always been demand from researchers and volunteers to run
one-off queries against Wikimedia datasets. Quarry.wmcloud.org was built
and launched by the WMF more than 10 years ago. Originally a one-person
skunkworks project, it quickly caught on in popularity as one of the
most trafficked services run by Wikimedia Cloud Services.
A few years ago, we launched superset.wmcloud.org[0] as an intended
Quarry replacement. We soon learned that despite being a less polished,
home-made tool, Quarry provides many features that Superset does not,
and most users resisted migration away from it. Superset has only a
handful of active users.
At this point, Superset is essentially unsupported by WMF staff. As part
of ongoing efforts to improve our support for Toolforge and other more
popular services we will be either shutting it off or transferring
ownership of Superset in a few weeks[1].
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169452
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416373
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