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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 does not run for the first time

I'm trying to install Mediawiki 1.22.6 into a subdirectory /wiki/ of apache document root directory, which contains some other directories. When I try to open http://example.com/wiki or http://example.com/wiki/index.php for the very first time to…
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nginx short urls for mediawiki

I am trying to do short URLs for a MediaWiki site. The wiki is in a subdirectory mydir (http://www.example.com/mywiki). I've already set up rewrites in /etc/nginx/sites-available so that example.com redirects to example.com/mywiki. Currently the URL…
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MediaWiki Multi Site + Memcached

I have multiple mediawiki installations, and I'm wondering if it's safe to allow them to all use the same memcached server. Are there any "gotchas" involved?
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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 accounts at once, or should I just restart?
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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) we get the error: MediaWiki internal…
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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 works for http images. I'd like to display an https…
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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 match foo, and foo* will match foo and foobar.
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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 Templates Mediawiki has the problem that it does not…
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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 doing that, but it seems to be that it's a problem…
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Displaying ODG files thumbnails in Mediawiki

I would like to manage network diagrams in a Mediawiki instance using Libreoffice Draw (odg extension) : importing the odg files in the wiki is working but it's actually impossible to display thumbnails of the files in pages. Is there any way to do…
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Does Mediawiki encrypt logins by default as the browser sends them to the server?

Several searches only turned up questions about encrypting login info on the server side. Does Mediawiki encrypt logins after you type them in the browser and send them? (to prevent a man-in-the-middle from reading them in transit and taking over an…
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Semantic MediaWiki require onoi/callback-container, but it can't be installed

I try to install the latest release of SemanticMediaWiki. When I run composer update, it returns the following: > ComposerHookHandler::onPreUpdate Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including…
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Does the composer software have a command like python -m compileall ./

I want to use composer for a mediawiki root folder with multiple directories that need composer to install their dependencies with a command like composer -m installall ./ For example , if the root folder was all written in python i could use the…
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MediaWiki foreground not rendering tabs in content section

We are having issues getting the foreground or foundation skins in MediaWiki to render any tabs in the content section of our pages. This site is a demo, hosted on GoDaddy, but we have also tried clean installs Fedora locally and Linode. All the…
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Appending an argument to request_uri for mobile subdomain on nginx

I'm running a multilingual wiki (MediaWiki 1.26.2 with MobileFrontend) on nginx 1.9.3/OpenBSD 5.8. For each language wiki, I have a separate MediaWiki installation folder and a subdomain like en.domain.com pointing to that folder. I'd like to add a…
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