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.
Questions tagged [mediawiki]
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Make webserver to prevent parsing of certain HTML elements
MediaWiki content management system creates many links which their webpages I want not to be discovered by search engine crawlers.
It's not only that I don't want them indexed and more so not only that I don't want them crawled, but I don't even…
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Mediawiki refers to old domain after change
I changed the top level domain name of my mediawiki installation (wiki.olddomain.com -> wiki.newdomain.com). After editing the LocalConfig.php I can visit the wiki on the new domain, but after logging in or editing a page, I'm still referred to the…
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Mediawiki cannot acces database after Debian upgrade
I upgraded a Debian 9 "Stretch" server to Debian 10 "Buster", which also upgrades Mediawiki to version 1.31.
Trying to run update.php, it fails with "Cannot access the database: No database connection":
/var/lib/mediawiki/maintenance# php…
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nginx short url not quite getting me there
I am setting up mediawiki on my site and want to use short urls at the root. I want my address to be:
wiki.example.com/Main_Page, wiki.exampe.com/another_page
main site redirect goal:
wiki.example.com -->…
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I can't install mediawiki on the google cloud
I installed everything. Followed the instructions and then once I finished I put LocalSettings.php on the same folder as index.php. That is site/wiki/ Yet it still says that LocalSettings.php is missing. I typed the address LocalSettings.php and it…
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Multiple instances of mediawiki on stand alone server
I want to run a second instance of MediaWiki on a stand alone server. Does anyone have a guide on how to do this without causing problems for my current MediaWiki instance.
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mediawiki unable to upload files, but no errors
I have a 64-bit, CentOS 6.4 server running Apache 2 and MediaWiki 1.21.2 (upgraded from a 1.19 install from another server, but the problem did not exist there).
The problem is that users cannot upload new files to the server and I'm not getting…
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mediawiki cleanup extension?
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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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 deleted all spam messages and closed the security…
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How to configure a sites-available entry for mediawiki on RPi behind firewall?
I am trying to define a sites-available .conf entry for a mediawiki scratch installation on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian in my local network (behind the firewall). No DNS or domain name associated with it. No matter how I configure it for…
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MediaWiki Not Displaying Correctly
I have installed MediaWiki on a test server, and have opened up port 80 on the Firewall.
I can access the site by typing in the following:
http://NameOfServer/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
however there is only text displayed, no formatting…
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Learning PostgreSQL after using MySQL
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 installation.
The Postgres documentation is great, but…
