We are pleased to announce that, after two years of being an all-virtual
conference, EMWCon [1] is going back to being an in-person event. It will
be held at the Hilton Houston Westchase [2] in Houston, Texas on April
6-8. Everyone who is attending is encouraged to stay at the Hilton, where
we have a special group rate of $105/night; unless of course you live in
Houston already.
For those who cannot attend in person for any reason, this will be a
"hybrid" conference, with online/virtual capability that is intended to be
as integrated into the conference as possible. All presentations will be
available on Hopin live and we are accepting talks from remote speakers.
There is no cost for online/virtual attendance.
About EMWCon: EMWCon is a three-day conference featuring discussions of
topics related to "Enterprise MediaWiki", i.e. the usage of MediaWiki
software by companies, governments, and other organizations. The intended
audience is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki.
There will be many opportunities to interact with others using and
developing MediaWiki including presentations, workshops, breakout rooms and
hackathon sessions.
To register/signup for EMWCon please add your name here [3]. And, to submit
a talk, please add your talk proposal here [4]. The deadline for talk
submissions is March 18th.
We hope to see you there—in Houston or on Hopin!
Sincerely,
The EMWCon 2021 organizing committee
* Bryan Hilderbrand (General Chair)
* Jeffrey Wang (Local Chair)
* Yaron Koren (Program Chair)
* Ike Hecht (Sponsorship Chair)
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2022
[1]
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/houwchf-hilton-houston-westchase/?16439995…
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2022#Sign-up
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2022#Talks
The MediaWiki Stakeholders will be hosting our monthly meeting tomorrow
and all are invited.
Time: 15:30:00UTC 11:30AM Eastern 8:30AM Pacific 17:30 CEST
Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/mdd-ufhn-ksb
Markus Glaser, of Hallo Welt!, will talk about "Verified content in
MediaWiki with blockchain":
In a project with inblock.io, Hallo Welt! explored the possibilities
of creating a verification chain for content and changes in
MediaWiki. Markus will talk about what they did.
Robert Vogel, also of Hallo Welt!, will introduce the MWStake
Components:
Learn about what the MWStake Components are, their origin and
purpose. Robert will share Hallo Welt!'s experience with this
approach and show how MWStake Components can be used in your own
projects.
Please join us!
Mark
--
Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
717-271-1084
Hi all,
On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all
supported branches of MediaWiki.
The new releases will be:
- 1.35.6
- 1.36.4
- 1.37.2
This will resolve four issues in MediaWiki core and also includes some
fixes previously committed to git, including minor security and hardening
patches along with bug fixes included for maintenance reasons. One issue
does not affect MediaWiki 1.35 and 1.36.
In addition to those, these releases will resolve other issues in MediaWiki
core and also include some fixes previously committed to git, including
minor security and hardening patches along with bug fixes included for
maintenance reasons.
We will make the fixes available in the respective release branches and
master in git. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point
releases as well.
A summary of some of the security fixes that have gone into non-bundled
MediaWiki extensions will also follow later.
As a reminder, 1.36 is due to become end of life (EOL) in May 2022. 1.36.4
is expected to be the last release for this branch. It is recommended to
upgrade to 1.37, or to 1.38 due to be released in May 2022.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
As a reminder, EMWCon is only 2 weeks away, there's still time to get
tickets and attend.
After two years of being an all-virtual conference, EMWCon [0] is going
back to being an in-person event. It will be held at the Hilton Houston
Westchase in Houston, Texas on April 6-8. Everyone who is attending is
encouraged to stay at the Hilton, where we have a special group rate of
$105/night [1]; unless of course you live in Houston already.
For those who cannot attend in person for any reason, this will be a
"hybrid" conference, with online/virtual capability that is intended to be
as integrated into the conference as possible. All presentations will be
available on Hopin live and we are accepting talks from remote speakers.
There is no cost for online/virtual attendance.
About EMWCon: EMWCon is a three-day conference featuring discussions of
topics related to "Enterprise MediaWiki", i.e. the usage of MediaWiki
software by companies, governments, and other organizations. The intended
audience is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki.
There will be many opportunities to interact with others using and
developing MediaWiki including presentations, workshops, breakout rooms and
hackathon sessions.
To register/signup for EMWCon please add your name here [2] and if you are
planning on attending in-person, you can purchase your ticket here [3].
We hope to see you there—in Houston or on Hopin!
Sincerely,
The EMWCon 2021 organizing committee
* Bryan Hilderbrand (General Chair)
* Jeffrey Wang (Local Chair)
* Yaron Koren (Program Chair)
* Ike Hecht (Sponsorship Chair)
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2022
[1]
https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=HOUWCHF&groupC…
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2022#Sign-up
[3] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emwcon-spring-2022-tickets-295981989097
Hey all,
This is a quick note to highlight that in two weeks' time, the
REL1_38 branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the
extensions and skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included
as sub-modules of MediaWiki itself[0]. This is the first step in the
release process for
MediaWiki 1.38, which should be out in late May 2022, approximately six
months after MediaWiki 1.37.
The branches will reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for
the release, 1.38.0-wmf.26, which will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis in
the week beginning 13 March 2022 for MediaWiki itself and those
extensions and skins available there.
After that point, patches that land in the main development branch
of MediaWiki and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for
the MediaWiki 1.39 release unless specifically backported[1].
If you are working on a new feature that you wish to land for the
release, you now have a few days to finish your work and land it in the
development branch; feature changes should not be backported except in an
urgent case. If your work might not be complete in time, and yet should
block release for everyone else, please file a task against the
`mw-1.38-release` project on Phabricator.[2]
If you have tickets that are already tagged for `mw-1.38-release`,
please finish them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the
next few weeks.
We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.38.0-rc.0, two weeks
after the branch point, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.38.0 a
few weeks after that.
[0]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins>
[1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes>
[2]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5407/>
Yours,
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*James D. Forrester* (he/him <http://pronoun.is/he> or they/themself
<http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself>)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>