ProWikiProWiki
2025-10-07

Increase trust in your via approval workflows.

We are proud to announce a new approval extension for MediaWiki.

Discover what it can do for you, how it differs from existing solutions, and how it plays nicely with embedded content, like @smw queries: pro.wiki/news/mediawiki-page-a

Available immediately to our hosting customers and released as .

ProWikiProWiki
2025-10-06

Nowadays it is tricky to avoid spam from bots and AI agents on your

Luckily there are easy to use solutions that beat the bots, as long as you use them right.

Discover how to protect your wiki with bot-proof captcha questions via our new anti-spam mini-guide: pro.wiki/articles/preventing-s

ProWikiProWiki
2025-09-23

Level up the searchability of your Wikibase data!

Read the latest post on the @wikimediaDE Tech Blog on the new Wikibase Faceted Search extension.

Discover what the extension can do for you and the story of how it came to be.

tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/09

ProWikiProWiki
2025-09-03

We released Semantic Result Formats 5.1.0, which brings improve support for 1.43 LTS and enhancments for the filtered, datatables, graph, and d3chart formats. It is compatible with @smw 5.x and 6.x

Learn more about Semantic Result Formats at semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Ex

ProWikiProWiki
2025-08-25

Did you know that you can use "slash commands" in MediaWiki?

Increase your productivity by getting this new feature via our free and Slash Commands extension.

Get started via pro.wiki/news/Slash-Commands-M

ProWikiProWiki
2025-07-25
ProWikiProWiki
2025-07-24

We released Semantic MediaWiki 5.1.0.

This is a minor release with no breaking changes or bug fixes, only minor new features. Upgrading is thus not essential. For more details, see github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/S

Beware that in our efforts to support 1.44, we will drop support for MediaWiki older than 1.43 from git master.

Don't forget to follow @smw

ProWikiProWiki
2025-07-08

MediaWiki 1.44 is out!

Improved user blocking, patrolling, redirects, file security, and more 🚀

Discover the highlights pro.wiki/news/whats-new-in-med

ProWikiProWiki
2025-06-04

Faceted search for your ?!

Yes you can! Via the new Wikibase Faceted Search extension for .

Check out the demo video youtube.com/watch?v=CxKWpTQBrqk

Or the docs at professional.wiki/en/extension

ProWikiProWiki
2025-04-14

Semantic MediaWiki 5 Released!

The long-awaited @smw 5 is here! Discover the improvements it brings.

professional.wiki/en/news/sema

Among the highlights is support for 1.43, the latest LTS version.

ProWikiProWiki
2025-04-10

Enhance your Wikibase with extensions!

Check out our curated list of top 16 most useful extensions: professional.wiki/en/articles/

These extensions provide better search, data display, quality controls, export, media support, and integrations.

What extensions do you use with Wikibase? Let us know in a comment.

ProWikiProWiki
2025-04-09

What are the top extensions in 2025?

It can be tough to find the extensions you need among the thousands of options. Our curated list of most useful extensions is here to help you.

pro.wiki/articles/best-mediawi

All these extensions are and useful for many use cases, from internal to public .

Puzzle pieces representing the challenge of finding the right MediaWiki extensions
ProWikiProWiki
2025-04-08

Our popular responsive theme Chameleon now supports MediaWiki 1.44

Chameleon tops our list of best MediaWiki themes: pro.wiki/articles/best-mediawi

See the recent enhancements at github.com/ProfessionalWiki/ch

MediaWiki Chameleon theme
ProWikiProWiki
2025-04-04

Embed content such as markdown files from a git repo into your .

We just released version 3.0.0 of the External Content extension, adding compatibility for MediaWiki 1.40 up to 1.43 LTS.

External Content is free and software. Learn more at professional.wiki/en/extension

ProWikiProWiki
2025-04-03

We created a script to export constraint violations. Get it via github.com/ProfessionalWiki/Wi

Thanks to Clair Kronk at Mount Sinai for funding this new Wikibase tool.

JSON representing exported Wikibase constraint violations
ProWiki boosted:
Lozana Rossenovalozross@post.lurk.org
2025-03-05

📌 Nice post from Prof.Wiki highlighting recent work on the closer integration of #SemanticMediawiki and #Wikibase that was presented at the Mediawiki Users and Developers Conference in Vienna.

Also featured is our work at @tibosl with Kolja Bailly and Lukas Günther on Wikis for Manor Houses in the Baltic Sea Region, Climate Change Data, and Philosophy Texts, wide ranging topics and therefore interesting use cases for different functionalities.

Links to video recordings of the sessions are also in the post:
professional.wiki/en/news/conn

ProWikiProWiki
2025-03-05

Maps 11 for is now available!

This version brings a security enhancement, so be sure to upgrade. It is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 up to MediaWiki 1.43.

Maps allows embedding dynamic maps into your wiki using or . It also provides various geospatial tools and integrates with . It is entirely and perfect for projects.

github.com/ProfessionalWiki/Ma

ProWikiProWiki
2025-02-10

Check out the full list of top themes at pro.wiki/articles/best-mediawi

The full list contains links to the documentation and example wikis, as well as additional example screenshots and more detailed descriptions.

Need help with theme installation, customization, or creation? Check out our top-grade MediaWiki theming services at professional.wiki/en/mediawiki

ProWikiProWiki
2025-02-10

Fifth place goes to Vector

Or rather, to "Vector 2022", the modernized version of the Vector theme, which has been used on Wikipedia for over a decade.

This new version of the classic theme improved responsiveness, dark mode support, a collapsible sidebar, and more.

ProWikiProWiki
2025-02-10

Fourth place goes to Timeless

Timeless features a left sidebar for navigation and a right sidebar with links to tools.

It comes bundled with , so can be enabled with a single line of configuration. Naturally, it is also available on pro.wiki as the default theme for new wikis.

Client Info

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