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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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How to split large wikipedia dump .xml.bz2 files in Python?

I am trying to build a offline wiktionary using the wikimedia dump files (.xml.bz2) using Python. I started with this article as the guide. It involves a number of languages, I wanted to combine all the steps as a single python project. I have found…
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Geshi syntax highlighting for the R programming language

Does Geshi support the R programming language? This table (Geshi for MediaWiki) does not list R, so I guess the answer is no, but I just wanted to check. Is there any programming language with a similar sintax that could help highlight, at least…
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MediaWiki Docker Official Image - Connection Refused by MySQL

I'm trying to install MediaWiki using the official docker image at MediaWiki Docker Official Image I'm on a Windows 10 box and used docker-compose with the stack.yml file that the page has on the instructions. It all deploys and starts, but when I…
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Embed doxygen in mediawiki

I use mediawiki for the majority of my documentation. However, we recently started using doxygen to document the API on one of our C/C++ heavy projects. To give our overall documentation a consistent look & feel, I'd like to embed the doxygen…
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MediaWiki Extension for Q&A

Is anyone aware of an already existing MediaWiki Extension that would allow users to ask questions in a similar manner to this website or yahoo answers. I've been looking for an extension to allow users to ask/answer questions referring to specific…
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MediaWiki to Confluence Migration

We are planning to migrate our existing MediaWiki site to Confluence. But when I searched about it, I came to know about the Universal Wiki Converter(UWC) tool, which is no longer supported or available. So, I am worried as to where to start and how…
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How to setup external Single Sign On for MediaWiki?

I'm trying to setup single sign on for MediaWiki with ExtAuthDB extension. The purpose is to authenticate user from external user system automatically when user logins in the main website: www.mysite.com. Mediawiki is located on subdomain:…
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MySQL Errors - You must SET PASSWORD/Password hash should be a 41-digit hexadecimal number

All, this is probably a simple fix but I can't seem to get it working... I'm trying to set up a MySQL database (on RHEL) but getting the following errors: mysql> SELECT 1; ERROR 1820 (HY000): You must SET PASSWORD before executing this…
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Mediawiki error: File upload not working

I've installed Mediawiki v1.24.1 on my server which is running RHEL7. I've installed it under /var/www/foohelp/wiki. However, when I try to upload a file, I get the following error: [f3eae72a] /foohelp/wiki/index.php/Special:Upload Exception from…
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get all sections separately with wikimedia api

I try to get all seperate sections of a wikipedia article through the api. I know already : Howto retrieve a complete text : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvlimit=1&titles=house&rvprop=content Howto retrieve a…
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MediaWiki parser function #if for undefined template parameter

I have a MediaWiki site with Semantic MediaWiki extension installed. I'd like to test if a string is empty. For that I do: {{#if: {{{transcript.lncrna}}} | Yes | No}} apparently, {{{transcript.lncrna}}} is empty, it contains nothing. However, the…
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How to remove index.php from the URL of MediaWiki?

I used this tool http://shorturls.redwerks.org/ to rewrite a short url for MediaWiki. From this: http://wikitest.org/fr/index.php/Accueil to this: http://wikitest.org/fr/wiki/Accueil. Then I added this code to LocalSettings.php: ## The URL base path…
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How to add external