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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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not able to upload files into mediawiki -- weird one

Completely frustrating me. When I try and upload a small jpeg file I get the following error: Warning: wfMkdirParents: failed to mkdir "/usr/local/mediawiki-1.20.5/images/5/5d" mode 0777 in /usr/local/mediawiki-1.20.5/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on…
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Stylesheets not loading in mediawiki

I'm trying to set up an internal mediawiki site with version 1.19 on RHEL 6.2 with Apache. On loading any wiki page, Mozilla reports Error: The stylesheet…
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mediawiki and wordpress MU different root with Nginx

i want to use wordpress MU with mediawiki on the same domain , but i'm using a kind of mediawiki hosting service called wikifamily. so i have to different script root : /var/www/wikifamly for mediawiki /var/www/blogs for wordpress I want to use it…
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Varnish not passing user IP correctly to MediaWiki

I'm running a setup with Nginx, FastCGI, APC, Memcache and Varnish to host a MediaWiki installation. I'm having some issues with recent changes showing up as coming from 127.0.0.1 in the case of anonymous users. I suspected the issue to be that…
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Setting up a wiki from raw files

I'm not totally sure on what the story is, but it goes something like this: Professor works on a project at some other University The researchers save all their data in a wiki Project no longer gets funding so they shut it down Wiki instantly…
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mod_rewrite changes case even if not matching RewriteCond?

I have a really strange problem with my MediaWiki which I want to have articles of the form mywiki.org/MyArticle. Now I got most of it to work using the following code but it mysteriously cannot display the logo anymore. RewriteEngine On # don't…
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MediaWiki Apache2 RewriteEngine Not Working

I am working from Manual:Short URL/Apache guide to set up a wiki with a shortened url on a Debian server running Apache2. I want the directory /var/www/currienet/w/ to be accessible on currienet/wiki/ (local network address) I have the following in…
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Why isn't MediaWiki loading?

I recently set up MediaWiki on an Apache server with PostgreSQL. It installed successfully. However, when I try to access the website, I get a blank page. The error log reports the following. [error] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed…
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downloading xlsx from secure site in apache from IE causes extra prompt

The issue is that when downloading the file, the download occurs (first prompt to open/save) and you can save the file. If you OPEN the file, it will make additional OPTIONS requests to the wiki server, and one of these requests do not pass the…
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Upgrade Mediawiki on a Windows Server 2003 box?

I was wondering if anyone knew the location or had any experience updating media wiki to the newest version 1.15.1 I see lots of documentation for Linux installs but i can't seem find any for Windows. I just "inherited" this box and don't usually…
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Media wiki on windows server 2k3 backup/restore and upgrade

I just inhereted our companys mediawiki and 1) what files need to be backed up to be able to restore it to a diffrent machine 2) i see there is an update to 1.15.1 I looked over the site but i don;t see any instructions for upgrading a windows…
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WikiMedia. Search with french accents. Result differ's

I have MediaWiki 1.19 with MySQL 5.1.58 and php-5.3.6 installed in a SANDBOX. On the MediaWiki, I do a search with the word ''Québec'' or ''Quebec'' and I have different results... Is there anything I can change in Apache or MySQL to fix that issue?…
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Clean out a large MediaWiki text table

I just discovered that an old MediaWiki of mine was infested with spam, and the database table named "text" (which contains the page content) is 3GB large. I've deleted all the spam pages manually, but: The table is still the same size. I wonder…
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Uploading files to https mediawiki

I am unable to upload files (images) to my mediawiki install. I think it may have something to do with it is being hosted as http secure(HTTPS). I followed carefully the instructions here. I updated write permissions to the /images/ dir drwxrwxrwx…
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Mediawiki Math Extension it does work from the command line, but not from PHP

I have moved Mediawiki from old server (LINUX) to new server(LINUX). Once i have moved Math functions are not working. So i requested IT team to install the relevant software and package. When I was trying to run in command line its generating math…
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