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Media wiki merge and delete a user using MergeUser extension
Hi i am trying to install the MergeUser plugin in media wiki. My account is in both sysop and bureaucrat. I have enabled $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['usermerge'] = true;
When i try to access /Special:UserMerge i get the following…
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Hide "Create account" and change "Log in / create account with OpenID" in Media Wiki
I would like the OpenID login page for Media Wiki to be the main login page for my wiki, so I would like to hide the text "Create account" and change the "Log in / create account with OpenID" to "Log in / create account".
The OpenID extension page…
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How can I properly set up the OpenID extension for Media Wiki so users can only register with that?
I made a Media Wiki site, eatwiki.org, and because mandatory account creation was not enabled by default it was heavily spammed. I installed an extension that has a math captcha to try to stop it, but the spam bots just made many accounts. I…
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MediaWiki Table of Contents (ToC) FileTree
I would like to turn the standard Media Wiki ToC to a FileTree structure.
Where you can expand and contract each section.
I want to support unlimited numbers of levels.
A Expand All and Collapase All link would also be nice.
The name of the…
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MediaWiki and SimpleSAMLPHP authentication
I've been trying to integrate MediaWiki and SimpleSAMLPHP with both extensions available (MultiAuthPlugin and SAMLAuth). However, I get the same error of 'State information lost' after trying to login via the Wiki in both cases.
I've tried to change…
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unable to match or replace in recursiveTagParse return string
I'm currently working on making a nested tag extension, where the parent tag (in my case ) needs to be able to influence the contents of the child tag (in my case ). I've tried doing this by just running $parser->recursiveTagParse($input)…
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Getting config information from a MediaWiki page
I am developing a MediaWiki extension and I would like it to be able to pull simple configuration settings from a MediaWiki page that can be edited when and if certain things are added such as a category. I am quite unsure how I would go about doing…
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how is that link box called
Sometimes I see boxes in web pages that contain links in different font sizes. The most-often visited links are in bigger fontsize, the "less important" links are in smaller font size. I would call this box the "weighted size link box", but google…
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adding next and previous button on mediawiki pages
I have a mediawiki site that has the following categories: Characters, Enemies, Weapons, Allies. Each Category has a list of pages (e.g. in Characters, i have char1, char2, etc.).
Lets say I'm currently viewing char2 page, I want to have a next/prev…
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Storing a content like a page in MediaWiki
I have started to develop a website using MediaWiki. I designed an upload page (I have not used the MediaWiki's default upload page Special:upload). I have created it manually and did my operations like uploading images and stored details in the…
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Something incorrect in shell path/syntax
I'm trying to instal Extension:Scribuntu, but when I try to run simple command, like #invoke I get the error:
Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
This is what I found in error logfile:
sh: /var/lib/php-exec//sh…
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Could not normalize image parameters for file.png - MediaWiki
I'm using:
MediaWiki 1.37.1
PHP 7.4.3 (fpm-fcgi)
Elasticsearch 5.6.16
VisualEditor 0.1.2
When I go to a page and click on Edit > Insert > Images and media; And when I start searching for files it works great, unless there's a PDF file, then the…
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How to set up things for MediaWiki for my website
I am trying to set up a website with MediaWiki on a Shared Hosting service and am getting frustrating results. First I am going to list what I want out of my website and will show the hosting details to show you what kinds of problems I am running…
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How to go to a mediawiki extension page?
I installed mediawiki and Special:Version shows that ConfirmEdit extension is installed, but when I try to go to index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmEdit to configure it, I get nothing, how to go to that page to change its settings?
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How can I integrate Mediawiki with MS Teams (or other collaboration software)?
This is a follow-up question to enhanced wiki functionalities in microsoft teams? where a comment recommends to integrate a special tab for enhanced wiki-functionalitites in teams.
If we integrate MW as an inline "tab" in teams, then I'd like to…
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