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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 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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Delete or disable user in mediawiki

How can i disable or delete an user in mediawiki? I can delete the records from the db but i am not sure if this would affect anything else in the wiki. Any suggestions would be welcome Thanks Prady
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Convert from Microsoft Word to Media Wiki Markup Style

How do I export a word document to media wiki markup style I have been trying to do it by following the steps given in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:WordToWiki but all in vain, not getting it. Any help please.
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How can I add per page permissions to a user in MediaWiki?

In MediaWiki, how can a user be given permission to edit only certain pages? This way, the administrator can create a page for the user and the user will be able to edit this particular page only.
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Default sort column in Wikipedia table

Having a standard wiki table {| class="sortable wikitable" ! Title ! Authors ! ID Number |- | '''Applying UML and Patterns''' | Craig Larman | ID432 ... how to make the table sort the table by the 3rd column (ID) ascending?
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Getting developers to use a wiki

I work on a complex application where different teams work on their own modules with a degree of overlap. A while back we got a Mediawiki instance set up, partly at my prompting. I have a hard job getting people to actually use it, let alone…
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Import Confluence xml dump into Mediawiki

Is it possible to import a Confluence xml dump into Mediawiki? If so, any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks for you assistance!
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TEXTAREAs scroll by themselves (on IE8) every time you type one character

IE8 has a known bug (per connect.microsoft.com) where typing or pasting text into a TEXTAREA element will cause the textarea to scroll by itself. This is hugely annoying and shows up in many community sites, including Wikipedia. The repro is…
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Purging all pages in mediawiki

Is it possible to purge all pages in mediawiki? I've tried emptying the obejctcache table to no avail. I don't particularly want to hit each page with ?action=purge appended. Version 1.23.3
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MediaWiki Extension:GoogleAppsAuthentification Multiple Domains

I've been using the great GoogleAppsAuthentification extension for mediawiki to allow my users to log in with their Google Apps account. We recently added another domain to our Google Apps and I'd like to offer those users the option to log into our…
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Escape | (vertical bar/pipe) in URL in Wiki Markup Template

Is it possible to escape and keep the nonstandard | character as is in an URL in a template Wiki Markup within a table? {| class="wikitable" |- ! Test in Table |- | [http://example.org/{var1}|{var2}|{var3} Example] |} Should render something like…
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How to best add extensions when using official docker image for MediaWiki?

We are using the official MediaWiki Docker image and want to be able to add additional MediaWiki extensions. Questions: What is the recommended next step here if we are currently using the docker-compose file below were we mount volumes on the…
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Wikipedia Mediawiki API get Pageid from URL

I have a set of full urls…
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How to add a link in MediaWiki VisualEditor Toolbar?

I`m trying to insert a custom link to a special page in VisualEditor toolbar. See the image below. See Image I googled a lot but without success. Someone please give a path...
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Fatal exception of type MWException

I recently installed MediaWiki in localhost on Debian 7 System. But after the installation, I got the exception Fatal exception of type MWException. I reviewed all reported bugs, but they do not apply to me. PHP 5.4.4 phpmyaddmin....
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Obtaining static HTML files from Wikipedia XML dump

I would like to be able to obtain relatively up-to-date static HTML files from the enormous (even when compressed) English Wikipedia XML dump file enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 I downloaded from the WikiMedia dump page. There seem to be quite…
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