MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Blog/2017-11-15

Hello! Here's another incomplete round up of activities involving MediaWiki and the surrounding community. Edits and additions are welcome.


 * MediaWiki saw both a bug fix release (1.29.1) but also a security please for it and 1.28 and 1.27)
 * Updates to SMW
 * Updates to the Maps extension:
 * Updates to the Semantic Results Format (release notes)
 * Samuel Lampa from the RDFIO project shared a read-made virtual machine with "the latest MediaWiki, SMW and RDFIO installed"
 * RDFIO also saw it's 3.0.0 release
 * BlueSpice shares some of there recent work:
 * https://blog.bluespice.com/2017/08/23/top-10-mediawiki-skins/
 * https://blog.bluespice.com/2017/08/02/replace-text-search-replace-wiki/
 * https://blog.bluespice.com/2017/08/30/draw-io-mediawiki-bluespice-create-drawings-collaboratively/
 * SMWCon in Rotterdam happened!
 * Yaron Koren, long-time developer and MediaWiki consultant recently started a new job with Genesys. Congrats to Yaron and we look forward to hear more on what this means for his extensions and the broader MediaWiki community."
 * A new MediaWiki forum was created by Ryan Schmidt (Skizzerz)
 * The Wikimedia foundation Technical Collaboration team is also piloting the use of Discourse for on-boarding new developers
 * The Wikimedia foundation Technical Collaboration team is also piloting the use of Discourse for on-boarding new developers