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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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Mediawiki and how to get list of pages by the template

Just curious, is there any easy way how go get the list of pages that have specified template inside (e.g. list of all pages on Wikipedia that have Infobox template inside the article)?
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Is there an open source realtime collaborative wiki engine?

I am looking for a wiki engine that is: open source real time collaborative A sort of mix between MediaWiki and an open source version of Google Docs where several users could see each other's edits in real time. Is there such a state-of-the-art…
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Wikipedia api fulltext search to return articles with title, snippet and image

I've been looking for a way to query the wikipedia api based on a search string for a list of articles with the following properties: Title Snippet/Description One or more images related to the article. I also have to make the query using…
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How do you stop the automatic line break after templates in mediawiki?

In mediawiki, whenever you embed a template into an article, it is always proceeded by a line break (as far as I know). Is there some way to prevent this so that I may place templates next to one another without the second one being on a new line?
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Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server: http-bad-status on Fresh Mediawiki 1.35.0 LTS

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35 is out and one of the advertise features seems to be the "built in"/"out of the box" Visual Editor that doesn't need an external server anymore. So downloaded and installed the version just released and…
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How to make some text red in mediawiki?

Which tags or mediawiki markup symbols should I use to make some text of red or any other color?
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How to encourage non-anonymous editing on MediaWiki?

Problem At work we have a department wiki (running Mediawiki). Unfortunately several persons edit without logging in, and that makes it very difficult to track down editors to ask questions about the content. There are two strategies to improve…
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How to get image URL in wiki api?

When I call wiki APIs for accessing image URLs, I get image URLs like this, File:Ad-tech London 2010 (2).JPG How to get the correct URL of this file from wiki API?
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Merging MediaWiki contents together

Currently I have two MediaWikis, one a slightly older version than the other. I want to merge the contents of both together, without eliminating duplicate pages. So far the best option I can think of is to use a bot (like pywikipedia) to go…
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How do I change a user's Email address in MediaWiki

With access sysop and database access how do I change the Email address associated with a user? The user table in the database has everything encoded as BLOBs. If I can decode and encode those values presumably I can just update user.user_email.
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How can I fix the MediaWiki error "Wiki uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again."?

The problem I am having is that I can not log on to my newly created wiki that I made using MediaWiki. I have searched the web for an answer, and the ones I found did not help with this specific issue (like this one: problem with mediawiki cookies)…
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Re-indexing huge database (the English Wikipedia) efficiently

THE GIST Before performing a massive 40+ GB import of the English Wikipedia, I had to temporarily remove indexes and auto-increment fields from three tables ('page', 'revision', and 'text') to handle the load. Now I have finally successfully…
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Get all Wikipedia Infobox Templates and all Pages using them

Given a Wikipedia page like Wikipedia: Stack Overflow there are often Infoboxes (mostly on the right hand at the top of the page). Example screenshot: DBPedia lists all these attributes as RDF triples. You can see the example at DBPedia: Stack…
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MediaWiki MySQL Database Character set, which one to use?

I'm installing MediaWiki and am confused which charset to use. I installed MediaWiki before but never took care of this: I used the default choice (which is Binary), and it didn't cause any problem, but now it's different and I can make no…
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WebRequest to connect to the Wikipedia API

This may be a pathetically simple problem, but I cannot seem to format the post webrequest/response to get data from the Wikipedia API. I have posted my code below if anyone can help me see my problem. string pgTitle = txtPageTitle.Text; …
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