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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.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

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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, however it is possible that they don't select any…
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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/Extension:StalkerLog To see which pages a user has…
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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 someone else edits the page. Furthermore, I get an…
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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, probably 1 mega). I want to use the MediaWiki api…
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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 assigned all the proper permissions, etc for the user…
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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, which is best for performance? Obviously, templates only…
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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 Drupal instances, a Mediawiki instance and a few…
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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 italics and then after a few minutes go back to…
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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 behind a PAM-based authentication). Edit1: Sorry…
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Installing MediaWiki with Docker

I'm attempting to install MediaWiki using the Docker image mediawiki:1.40.0-fpm. It's my intention to use an external instance of Nginx as reverse proxy for SSL termination. I can start the container successfully, but when I try to connect as per…
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How to show a password-containing automated generated image, whose "content" is "copyable"?

I'm responsible for a MediaWiki in my company. That Mediawiki contains information, like passwords. Currently those passwords are stored on the server, hosting the MediaWiki, but when a person surfs to that MediaWiki website, the traffic is not…
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Nginx config not operating as intended

I set up MediaWiki in my /var/www/html under the folder w/ and I'm trying to recreate the functionality of another wiki that uses root FQDN/ but I am having no success in trying to replicate the behavior with nginx configs my current nginx is…
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Nginx running site out of wrong folder

On my Debian 10 VPS I have a MediaWiki deployment that I'm hosting on wiki.myorg.com stored on the filesystem using a soft link to manage versions like this: /var/www/mediawiki/1.34.4 /var/www/mediawiki/1.38.2 /var/www/wiki ->…
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Mediawiki LDAPGroups causing errors

I have some trouble setting up LDAPGroups on Mediawiki LTS 1.35.8. Since the discussion site to this extension seems quite inactive, I want to try my luck here. I've set up LDAPProvider successfully without any problems. But once I activate…
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