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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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Prevent MediaWiki from being spammed

My MediaWiki site is currently under the spammers attack. I get around 10 spam pages registered daily. What I've I already done: Only users with confirmed emails can create/edit pages. ReCAPTCHA widget. Captcha displayed on the actions: 'edit'…
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How can I use the Wiktionary API for getting pronunciation data?

I was looking for a way to get the pronunciation of any given word by querying an API of some sort. As Wiktionary comes in handy to find pronunciations of words I was trying to use their API, but how do I get the pronunciation of a specific word? It…
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Where can I find a good mwclient introduction?

I'm just starting with mwclient. I'm going to create bots to query our MediaWiki database and make small revisions. But I cannot find anywhere a simple list of python commands like how to get ages of pages, contents of categories, contents of pages,…
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WordPress MediaWiki integration

On the other end of the spectrum, I would be happy if I could install a wiki and share the login credentials between WordPress and the wiki. I hacked MediaWiki a while ago to share logins with another site (in ASP Classic) via session cookies, and…
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Mediawiki link within the page to a specific place, rather than a section

1. Question If I code like the following, then I have a link within the page to a specific "section" [[#SectionTitle|displayed text]] But what if I want to have a link within the page to a place, I mean any place? Sometimes I might want to directly…
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Using Redmine with an external Wiki?

We've got a company wiki running Mediawiki on our intranet that has been in use for a while. We just recently installed Redmine and are in the process of getting it configured just the way we like it. I was wondering if there's any way to use our…
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Parse birth and death dates from Wikipedia?

I'm trying to write a python program that can search wikipedia for the birth and death dates for people. For example, Albert Einstein was born: 14 March 1879; died: 18 April 1955. I started with Fetch a Wikipedia article with Python import…
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Java Wikitext Parser

Any ideas for a nice parser with an easy to use api that is configurable? I'm looking to feed it data such as http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/api.php?format=xml&action=parse&prop=wikitext&page=San%20Francisco, choose sections of data I want, and…
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Simplest way to get MediaWiki to require HTTPS on all pages?

I need a MediaWiki installation to require the use of https (and reject normal http). I've spent 2 hours looking. Setting $wgServer doesn't work and closing port 80 in httpd.conf doesn't work either. My wiki installation is run on an Apache server.
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How to query Wiktionary API and get part of speech

I'd like to get the part of speech and maybe the definition for English words. I found a link like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srwhat=text&srsearch=don%27t but it doesn't seem to get me the results I see on…
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How to add google webfonts to mediawiki?

google web fonts requires that an HTML link element should be added to the head of the page: I cant find the proper php file to modify. Im using…
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How does the "edit section" feature on Wikipedia work?

How does Wikipedia implement the "edit this section" feature for its articles, wherein a user can edit just a section of an article, rather than the whole article? I've tried crawling through mediawiki's code by myself, but it's a bit dense for me…
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How to speed up Pywikibot?

I've built some report tools using Pywikibot. As things are growing it now takes up to 2 hours to finish the reports so I'm looking to speed things up. Main ideas: Disable throttling, the script is read-only, so page.get(throttle=False) handles…
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How do I get a list of MediaWiki namespaces?

How do I get a list of MediaWiki namespaces? Ideally with name and number.
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Embedding Recent Changes on Main Page on MediaWiki

I am a complete and total newbie with MediaWiki. I would like to find a way to include Recent Changes directly on the Main Page, without having to have the user navigate to the recent changes page. What are my options for this? Thanks!
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