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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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.
Specifically, if the page is called A&B (A ampersand B)…

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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 allowed 10.
However, at peak times more than 10 users…

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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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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?
Thanks

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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,
# MediaWiki PHP files, HTTP error documents,…

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Mediawiki is making Apache2 crash, what can I do?
When I call this URL : https://MyMediawikiDoma.in/index.php?title=MyArticle&type=revision&diff=3441&oldid=3424
Apache2 crash with this backtrace:
(gdb) where
#0 0x00007fe6039edc8a in ?? () from target:/usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp7.2.so
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404 Response from NGINX when trying to setup mediawiki short urls
I have NGINX setup to serve content over localhost with HTTPS. Using the following location block, I can serve mediawiki just fine (it is in the /w folder)
location ~ /w/(.*)(\.php)?$ {
index index.php index.html;
try_files $uri $uri.php…
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How to convert a MediaWiki installation using MySQL to SQLite?
We're running a small own MediaWiki installation based on MySQL here. For simplicity reasons it would be great to convert this installation to an SQLite variant as it then would not require a separate data base instance.
What I'm looking for is a…

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Setting up Mediawiki in subdirectory Nginx 1.14
I'm trying to setup a mediawiki under a subdirectory of nginx.
I don't want to use something like http://wiki.example.com. I don't want to proxy back to my server.
I want to use http://www.example.com/wiki or something similar.
I tried rewriting…

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So does MediaWiKi support MSSQL or not?
So I am trying to install MediaWiKi 1.31.0 on a machine running IIS 8 on server 2012 R2. We are running MSSQL server 2012. I followed the instructions on the media wiki page to install for MSSQL, but I get an error when creating the database tables…

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How do I check how much memory a Mediawiki instance has available to it?
Before anyone posts something about checking php.ini, bear in mind there are all sorts of ways it could be overridden. Where's the admin page or panel that lists the amount of RAM available to mediawiki?
(Due diligence: Searches turned up nothing.…

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MySQL socket disappears
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, with MySQL server for MediaWiki 1.30.0 along with Apache2 and PHP7.0. The installation was successful for everything, I managed to get it all running. Then I start installing extensions for MediaWiki. Everything is…

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Error running multiple instances of sphinx (searchd) on the same box
I have a MediaWiki server that hosts 4 instances of MediaWiki, and figure I should have a separate instance of sphinx search running for each. I did this by creating separate sphinx.conf files for each, and configuring them to run on separate…

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DNS inside PHP-FPM chroot jail on OpenBSD 6.0 running nginx 1.10.1, PHP 7.0.8, MariaDB 10.0.25 and MediaWiki 1.27.1
I'm running nginx 1.10.1 on OpenBSD 6.0 with the packages php-7.0.8p0, php-curl-7.0.8p0, php-fastcgi-7.0.8p0, php-gd-7.0.8p0, php-mcrypt-7.0.8p0, php-mysqli-7.0.8p0, mariadb-client-10.0.25v1 and mariadb-server-10.0.25p0v1.
I have several MediaWiki…

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Simple MediaWiki backup
I am currently on contract with a small (<250 accounts) municipal water supply company. One of the things I'm doing is rewriting their ten-years-out-of-date procedures manual, and after some discussion with the company's president and with the…

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