PHPCS and PHPMD: my experiences
PHPCS (PHP Code Sniffer) detects violations against a specified coding standard. PHPMD (PHP Mess Detector) is a similar tool, though with more of a focus on metrics. In this post I’ll go over how I...
View ArticleNew Semantic MediaWiki wiki!
The Semantic MediaWiki website/wiki has gotten a nice upgrade, consider this is Christmas present if you’re a SMW user Several important issues got addressed. First off, we now have working HTTPS...
View ArticleMaps 3.5 and Semantic Maps 3.3
I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.5 and Semantic Maps 3.3. Both of these are feature releases that bring new functionality, enhancements and bugfixes. They do not contain any...
View ArticleSemantic MediaWiki now has a YouTube channel!
For many years, the talks at SMWCon, the biyearly Semantic MediaWiki conference, have been recorded. These recordings have ended up at various locations, though are always linked from the conference...
View ArticleMaps 3.6 for MediaWiki released
I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.6. This feature release brings marker clustering enhancements and a number of fixes. These parameters where added to the display_map parser...
View ArticleMaps 3.7 for MediaWiki released
I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.7. This feature release brings some minor enhancements. Added rotate control support for Google Maps (by Peter Grassberger) Changed coordinate...
View ArticleMaps 3.8 for MediaWiki released
I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.8. This feature release brings several enhancements and new features. Added Leaflet marker clustering (by Peter Grassberger) markercluster:...
View ArticleMaps 4.0.0-RC1 released!
I’m happy to announce the first release candidate for Maps 4.0. Maps is a MediaWiki extension to work with and visualize geographical information. Maps 4.0 is the first major release of the extension...
View ArticleNew MediaWiki blog
I’m happy to announce a brand new blog dedicated to MediaWiki and all things enterprise wiki related. Half a year ago I launched Professional Wiki together with Karsten Hoffmeyer. Professional Wiki is,...
View ArticleUsing PSR-3 Monolog in MediaWiki
Since a few years, you can use the PSR-3 LoggerInterface in MediaWiki to log messages. But how can you tell MediaWiki to use a specific logger? In this technical post we will look at how to use a...
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