Questions tagged [mediawiki]
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.
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How do I block multiple users on MediaWiki?
My wiki collected a lot of spam over the past few months, so I've blocked it to only registered users. Unfortunately I never turned off user registration.
Is it possible to block a lot of user ...
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How do you return a mediawiki installation back to the "just installed" state?
I would like to take a working, stable, MediaWiki directory under /var/www, copy its contents to a new directory, and perform whatever steps are necessary to place the new directory into "just ...
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Learning PostgreSQL after using MySQL [closed]
I'm looking for a simple resource for getting the hang of Postgres after using MySQL for years. So far I've figured out \l, \d, and \c, but I'm having trouble listing the tables in my MediaWiki ...
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What needs to be done to cleanly move a MediaWiki installation from one server to another?
I have MediaWiki running on one server, and need to migrate it to another. What steps need to be taken to cleanly move it to another host? Minimal downtime is acceptable.
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Trouble starting a MediaWiki
I'm thinking about developing a MediaWiki site. I want to start at localhost. I've never done any web-dev in my life. So I've installed mediawiki thru a synaptic (I'm on Kubuntu 11.10). If I ...
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Wiki Documentation With Permissions
So I've set up a MediaWiki for managing some docs, we have AD integration set up and so far things are going fine...
But wow is managing permissions a pain in the butt! Requires editing LocalSettings ...
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Including MediaWiki Special:AllPages on another page
Is there a way to include the Special:AllPages on another MediaWiki page, i.e. I would like to list Special:AllPages at the bottom of the main page.
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MediaWiki slow save of edited pages
I have MediaWiki 1.16.2 on a the following LAMP platform, which performs quite good for other apps on a 16 GB RAM dual processor machine:
CentOS 5.7 (64-bit)
Apache 2.2.3
MySQL 5.0.77
PHP 5.1.6
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My MediaWiki wiki_text table is too big. How to compact/vacuum/purge
I run a MediaWiki wiki page. It uses MySQL.
I have just 20 wiki pages and yet the wiki_text table is 45 MB big.
I had security holes and spam bots were posting spam wiki pages.
I have manually ...
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mediawiki database error when uploading some PDF files
I'm running a private mediawiki server on a Gentoo Linux box with Apache, PHP and Postgresql-9.0. Sometimes when one of us tries to upload a PDF file (that's the only type I've ever seen it happen too)...
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MySQL export tables with prefix from Unix command line
I want to export certain tables from one database and import them to another. The tables in question are used for my MediaWiki installation and are prefixed with "wiki_".
I do not have access to ...
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randomized mediawiki logout
I've got a mediawiki instance that seems to randomly log people out. Sometimes it takes hours, sometimes seconds. I haven't figured out what's triggering the logout, but it doesn't seem to be a ...
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Need help for configuring VirtualHost of Apache
I have virtual machine running Ubuntu.
I want to type in browser "http://localhost/mwiki" and see my MediaWiki site.
I put this site into /var/www/mwiki folder and I configured Apache "default" file.
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MediaWiki default category
I've recently set up the newest MediaWiki install. I'm trying to force users to make an article part of a certain category. I'm using the SelectCategory extension to ask them when editing an article, ...
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MediaWiki panic after modifying a file. Checksums maybe?
I've recently installed the latest version of MediaWiki on a dev server. I wanted to add some information on the edit page, and for this needed to modify an existing .php file to add in some more text....
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MediaWiki User Action Logging
Is there a way in a default MediaWiki installation to tell the following:
When a user has logged in or out of the system
I've found this extension for future use http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/...
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How can I configure MediaWiki to display numbers in titles? [closed]
We would like to display numbers in the titles in our MediaWiki wiki.
Specifically: in the table of contents numbers are shown like this:
1 Title
1.1 Subtitle
2 Another title
However, on the ...
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Mapping extension for MediaWiki
I am creating a wiki that allows people to specify the geographic range in which a species is found, something like this. I would like to allow people to define these kinds of maps in some way, either ...
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500 Internal Server Error when uploading large files to MediaWiki
When I upload a large (>245 Mb) file to my MediaWiki wiki (using Upload file, same as for images), I see:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal
error or misconfiguration ...
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IT Documentation with MediaWiki
We are looking for ways in which to further enhance our documentation and our ability to allow easy access to the information as well as editing the information. With these ideas in mind, we created ...
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How to prevent MediaWiki removing non default signatures?
We recently upgraded MediaWiki from 1.13.2 to 1.15.4. One of the side effects is that people's signatures are automatically deleted. That is, a signature added under MY PREFERENCES gets changed to ...
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Allow external HTTPS images on MediaWiki
On a MediaWiki wiki, we've set $wgAllowExternalImages which enables us to display inline images from another source without uploading it to the wiki (we just specify the URL).
However, this only ...
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Apache: URL should point to specific folder
I'm using CentOS 5.5 and Apache 2.2. I just started to administrate my own dedicated server, but I think that I understand the concept of virtual hosts in Apache: I actually have to different domains (...
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MediaWiki "no text in this page" with special characters in search field
We're upgrading from MediaWiki 1.13.2 -> 1.15.4. One of the issues we see is that when a page is searched for which in which the page name contains special characters, the page cannot be found.
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Why am I receiving MediaWiki email message on my own page edits?
Setting up a new wiki server for MediaWiki, I see that I am getting email notification messages for emails (on my watchlist) when I edit the page. This should not happen - it should only happen when ...
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How can I limit the maximum number of simultaneous MediaWiki to MySQL database connections?
We have a MediaWiki wiki on a MySQL database. However, other applications are also accessing MySQL. Currently we have a maximum of 100 maximum connections to the database, of which MediaWiki is ...
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MediaWiki SearchEngine that behaves like google
searchterm: foo
should match foo and foobar
searchterm: "foo"
should only match foo
I tried LuceneSearch and SphinxSearch so far, but I couldn't get any of these to behave like google. foo will only ...
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Regress MediaWiki to Clean State?
I just installed and configured MediaWiki on Ubuntu Server 10.04. I've now copied the instance in /usr/share/mediawiki/ to a different directory to run as a separate instance, and would like to reset ...
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What tips do you have for speeding up (performance of) a MediaWiki installation?
We have a MediaWiki installation and are getting complaints that it is becoming slower. How can we increase the speed / performance?
I have one tip (which I'll add below) but I'm really interested in ...
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How many xml http requests is too much for a pc to handle?
I'm running mediawiki on an apache on a regular pc running vista (don't know the specific specs, but I'm guessing at least duo core 2 2 giga hertz processor, broadband connection (500 kb/s at least, ...
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How can I change mediawiki's port?
I just installed mediawiki in a centos,but how can I change the port number instead of 80?
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MySQL connection failed in MediaWiki installation but successful from command-line
Installing a standard MediaWiki installation on a server: itwiki.ourdomain.com
Using MySQL on a different server: mysql.ourdomain.com
I've created the user wikiuser and the schema/db: itwiki and ...
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Which is the most efficient way (performance) to add functionality to MediaWiki?
I know of three ways to enhance MediaWiki functionality:
Using extensions.
Using templates.
Changing MediaWiki:Common.css & MediaWiki:Common.js
My question is, when I can choose which to do, ...
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How to make MediaWiki search work better?
The basic search capabilities of MediaWiki (at least, the version we're running - 1.7.1) are pretty poor. I'd like to improve them with an extension, but there are a lot of options and I'd like to ...
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Setting up mediawiki on ubuntu machine. How do I upload images?
I just installed mediawiki on my ubuntu machine, and was wondering how I can upload images in to an article I'm writing.
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Performance issue with Drupal and Mediawiki, I don't know where to look?
I have a webserver running CentOS 5, with Apache 2 and PHP 5.3. At the moment the server is mainly used for development, so there's really no traffic to talk about. The server houses a couple of ...
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Why do redirects in MediaWiki categories only sometimes appear in italics?
Apparently, redirects in categories are always meant to appear in italics. In our MediaWiki (1.13.2) this is almost always not the case. This is not a problem, but sometimes they suddenly appear in ...
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MediaWiki is getting slower gradually
I set up my MediaWiki on a CentOS. In the first few months, it works fine and fast. But it seems gradually getting slower.
My wiki site has less than 50 pages, so it's a very small scale site. But it ...
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Multiple instances of MediaWiki on one server
We need to run several MediaWiki Wikis, that need totally separate user accounts, on the one server. What would be the better solution:
Use separate source code and use namespaces in the database.
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What is the optimum way to secure a company wide wiki?
We have a wiki which is used by over half our company. Generally it has been very positively received. However, there is a concern over security - not letting confidential information fall into the ...
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Choosing a Wiki for an academic institute
I need to choose a Wiki. Please someone help. Following are my requirements:
1) Need good control to the access variables
2) LDAP integration support
3) User Group Support
4) Good Themes and ...
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Error logging with PHP and mod_fcgid
I have a mediawiki install that is acting up. Whenever I try to save an article, it goes to a blank screen. All though if I refresh that blank screen, it will go on to work.
I have no idea why it's ...
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How to properly backup mediawiki database (mysql) without messing up the data?
I want to backup a mediawiki database stored in a MySQL server 5.1.36 using mysqldump.
Most of the wiki articles are written in spanish and a don't want to mess up with it by creating the dump with ...
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WSS 3.0 Wiki export
We have a WSS 3.0 server with a lot of wiki pages created which need to be moved over to MediaWiki.
Are there any tools that can be used to automate this process?
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Useful extensions for MediaWiki
Can anyone suggest some useful MediaWiki extensions? I've installed PDF export, syntax highlight, file link protocol, submit in toolbar and enforce strong password. But I'm still eager to know any ...
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mediawiki cleanup extension? [closed]
Are there any extensions to mediawiki that will allow for a button to mark a page as "needs cleanup" or "deprecated"?
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Export Specific Page from MediaWiki
We have an internal document wiki running on MediaWiki (latest stable). Is there a way we can export a specific page for a customer without giving them access to the entire wiki (which is currently ...
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How do I fix my usage of RewriteCond in our MediaWiki .htaccess file?
Here's the relevant part of our .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^download.shtml /en/downloads [R]
# Don't rewrite requests for files in MediaWiki subdirectories,
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Command line tool for MediaWiki?
Is there a command line tool that would allow me to script creation of accounts on a MediaWiki instance?
The UI for creating an account is painful, and very time consuming when tasked with creating ...
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MediaWiki on MS SQL Server
I've been doing some digging on running mediawiki on sql server instead of MySQL, but haven't come across any concrete information. All of our servers are running SQL Server so I'd like to stick with ...
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