Welcome to the Wikimedia Technical Blog!

What is in an edit? Automated detection of edit types on Wikipedia

Learn about a new Python library for automatically detecting and summarizing what content is changed by edits on Wikipedia.

New discovery tool for technical documentation

The Wikimedia Developer Portal guides technical audiences to key documentation and community resources. By organizing links into thematic sections focused on developer tasks, it helps people more easily find information about Wikimedia technology.

screenshot of some commands from Jupyter notebook linked in blog post

Explore wiki project data faster with mwsql

Learn how the mwsql library makes it easier to download and work with SQL dump files in formats like Pandas dataframes or CSV.

The world map from Cosmographia Germanus

Modernizing our tech stack for serving maps at Wikipedia

Mediawiki allows editors to contribute with geospatial content. Learn more about the internals of the map technology we use and the improvements introduced.

What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles… in Rust

MediaWiki page titles are the primary identifiers for all wiki content – learn how they are validated, normalized and parsed and what it took to do so in Rust.