MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Blog/2018-03-07

We're a little past due, but here's the MediaWiki Stakeholders' News Roundup for March 2018. Edits and additions are welcome.


 * MediaWiki 1.30 has been released!


 * Jeroen De Dauw shares best practices for team collaboration from his experiences working in a small 3 people dev team at Wikimedia Deutschland


 * Yaron Koren, of Semantic Forms, Cargo, and other bouts of fame has started a podcast called "Between the Brackets", a MediaWiki-focused podcast. His guests so far include folks like Cindy Cicalese, Product Manager for the MediaWiki Platform team at the Wikimedia Foundation, Niklas Laxström, the creator and co-maintainer of tranlsatewiki.net, and Mike Cariaso, co-founder of SNPedia, a MediaWiki-based repository of genomic information.


 * Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2018 (EMWCon) is fast approaching! The 3-day event is March 21-23 in Houston, TX. The program is shaping up and registration is still open. Act fast if you want to attend!


 * Wikimedia Developer Support is a new support channel for all developers working with MediaWiki or other Wikimedia related technologies. It's based on the open-source Discourse tool and is currently a pilot project.


 * Karsten announced the latest creation from James Hong Kong (MWJames), a MediaWiki extension called Mermaid. From the announcement, "It provides the #mermaid parser function to support the generation of diagrams and flowcharts with the help of the mermaid script language, e.g. flowcharts, sequence diagrams and gantt diagrams."


 * Installing the MediaWiki Math extension is easier now - Moritz Schubotz shared the news that the Math extension is now easier. From the announcement, "In the past, administrators of MediaWiki installations faced a challenging installation procedure when they tried to enable rendering of mathematical formulae. As of February 22, no configuration or custom installation is required with the latest versions of MediaWiki core and the Math extension, if your wiki is connected to the internet."


 * TemplateStyles, an extension that introduces a tag to specify that a stylesheet should be loaded from a wiki page, has been released to the first Wikimedia content wiki. This extension allows a template template to have custom styles without having to place them in MediaWiki:Common.css.


 * Daren Welsh, Extravehicular Activity Flight Controller & Instructor and Mediawiki administrator and developer, shared a retrospective of his experience over the last five years in supporting the growth of MediaWiki at NASA.