Questions tagged [mediawiki]

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other Wikimedia projects and by many other wikis.

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Display Math equations in MediaWiki 1.24.1 (Ubuntu)

Math extension 2.0.0 MediaWiki 1.24.1 Ubuntu 14.04.3 I've followed the steps in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math At at the bottom of my LocalSettings.php I have: require_once…
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MediaWiki: Creating a table using #while function

First let me show you how my current wiki entry looks like and what parameters I've set: {{tracklist|Track1=Pokerface|Track2=Yellow Submarines|Track3=Yesterday}} My goal is to generate a tracklist using a template, which is actually a table. In the…
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MediaWiki: creating a new user in private wiki

I've installed the MediaWiki engine hoping to create a private wiki with only two users, myself as an administrator to post information and another user to read it. Nobody warned me about this, but it turned out to be much complicated than I could…
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MediaWiki: how to prevent template from inserting white space?

Today, I tried to create a template on Portuguese Wikipedia inside one of my subpages. It works fine with this code: '''{{{num}}}''': {{{date}}} — [[{{{title}}}]]
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preg_replace pattern and replacement for image tag of mediawiki markup

I am converting mediawiki markup to html. Stuck at converting image tag properly Mediawiki Text with Image Tag [[File:xyz2.png|none|thumb|748x748px]] I m using preg_replace and following pattern works upto some…
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Enabling in page uploads

From what I understand the default method of uploading to MediaWiki is using the upload page. However, on MediaWiki's own site and WikiPedia you are able to upload images via the page editor (Visual Editor or Enhanced Wiki Editor). Seems like I…
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Can I insert a button to take me straight to the bottom of my Wiki page?

I am currently building out a Wiki page that lists a very long set of items which takes forever to scroll through. Is there a button/link I can insert in to the page/code that will allow someone to go straight to the bottom? Any help on this would…
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Hide label if there are no parameters set in template. (Parser functions)

I have an infobox like this {{Infobox |name = {{{name}}} |status = {{{status}}} |- |! style="text-align:center; color:white; font-size:1.4em; line-height:1.3em; background:#827f75" colspan="2" {{!}}Contacts |- {{#if:{{{Person1|}}}| {{!}}…
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default location of MediaWiki extensions directory

I recently install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 10.04 using all the default settings. I'm looking to install an extension. Where is the extensions directory located by default? Thanks!
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Insert a progress bar in a MediaWiki page

I created a wiki for our team for documentation and to keep track of our project and tasks. Someone else on the team created a Kanban board. I would like to put a progress bar new to each task to show how much is completed. I've tried to find an…
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Append value to the end of all pages in WikiMedia

Is there a way to append '_TEST' to all pages (excluding Main_Page) in the the database? Looking at the page.page_title in the database the field is hashed so not sure the best method to change it (other than going through each one manually).
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Export/Import images between mediawiki sites respecting history and metadata

I have to export new images and those images that have been edited from one wiki to another, the aim is that in the end the two wiki sites have the same images with the same history. How can I do it?, I mean importing the images with the revisions…
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Fixing file://(///) link download issues in every browser (in mediawiki)?

At our office we use mediawiki as our intranet portal. Some of our departments like Sales, Support, etc use it to manage files on the network. They often link to Word/Excel documents with a file:// uri. The issue is everybody uses different…
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MediaWiki share my custom skin "myskin"

I have a custom skin on a private instance of MediaWiki. I would like other logged in users to be able to preview my custom skin. Using Preferences > Appearance > Myskin Preview results in the following…
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