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Questions tagged [wikimedia]

Wikimedia is the foundation running Wikipedia and other sites. Most sites in the Wikimedia family are built on MediaWiki.

The Wikimedia Foundation runs a number of projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Use this tag for questions specific to the Wikimedia family of wikis (e.g. Wikimedia settings, or custom extensions).

Consider also:

  • if your question has to do with the MediaWiki software
  • if your question has to do with template code of MediaWiki
  • if your question is specific to Wikimedia Commons
  • if your question is specific to Wikipedia
  • if your question has to do with the use of the API on Wikipedia
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Reeding BLOB values from Wikipedia dump file

I have downloaded a wikipedia dump file and transferred its data to MySQL. SELECT page_id, BINARY CONVERT(page_restrictions USING utf8) from page I used following query to convert page_restrictions field from blob to string. I also tried to use…
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Getting wrong answer from MediaWiki engine when passing Hebrew paramaters

I'm making Android version of some hebrew website that use WikiEngine but when I try to get some data via it's API using hebrew title names I got wrong answer. Like if I try to get this…
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wikimedia Lockdown with existing Namespaces

I'm using an Media Wiki for documentation. After I added a lot of Pages with Namespace for example INTERN:My Page or Public:My Page and want to restrict read access for this existend Namespaces. I've found the Extension "Lockdown" and can use it for…
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Reading varbinary value from WikiMedia database in Java

I'm trying to get the result of a MySQL query (WikiMedia; a "varbinary field") using the following code: rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM `redirect` WHERE `rd_namespace` = 0 AND `rd_title` = XY); while (rs.next()) { …
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How to add more user gender options in mediawiki user preferences?

On special:preferences mediawiki users are given a choice between two genders. For my wiki I'd like to add more options. For example: 'transgendered', or 'none of your damn business'. Is this doable?
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Is there any plugin for WikiEditor I could implement in my own page/ site

My client wants an Editor same as WikiEditor with all its functionalities in his website (framework almost near to codeigniter). I've seen the editor "WikiEditor" by implementing MediaWiki but I couldn't get it seperately into my page. Hope anyones…
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wikipedia servers gzip content

does wikimedia api supports gzip encoding. I'm using curl to get the content. I have used the accept gzip encoding. But it does not seem to work.. curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING , "gzip");
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How can I create a Python Script with BeautifulSoup on Windows to download the highest resolution of each picture in a WIkimedia Commons folder?

So, I'm a big fan of Gustave Doré, and I would like to download all his engravings from the Wikimedia Commons folders that are neatly organized. So, given a Wikimedia Commons folder I need to download all the pictures in it in the highest…
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WikiMedia API: How to GET a List of Articles by Category and Location?

Assuming I would like to get a list of 5 articles that are belonging to the "Cathedrals in Paris" category AND are nearby my location (Lat=48.8,Lon=2.3). Is there a way to achieve both at the same GET? If not, what is considered the best practice…
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Mediawiki Templates

I'm new to mediawiki and I am having troubles on the templates. I have installed all of Liquipedia's extensions. On liquipedia's Tab:Static, everything works fine. But on my part, while I'm testing it out on my local. It doesn't have the exact…
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phrabricator : Show custom tag created in maniphest within a card for workboard

I have created custom fields in maniphest, I want to show that custom field in workboard. I could see that wikimedia has done this for their use ref slide no : 7 (Design, wikidata) in the following ppt and the url mentioned below…
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Android application rejected because it violates the Intellectual Property. What should I do?

The application fetches the images of famous personalities on runtime via Internet. I have used the image URLs from MediaWiki Commons which is available for public use, but when the application was rejected I emailed Google about the issue and they…
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How to get a brief description about a topic from wiki API?

I need to display a brief description about some topic. Like, when we search "India" on Google, it will show a brief description about India on the right side of the page, but that content is not an actual paragraph from Wikipedia. does we get this…
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How to export from Wikimedia to CHM file?

I would like to export some pages in my Wikimedia project to a CHM file. I thought about using a plugin for a browser or something like that, but I haven't found anything. Any suggestion? Thanks a lot.
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New line character used in Wikimedia

What is the newline character used in Wikimedia projects formatting? Because there is no undo, redo, or easy/fast save mechanism, I wrote a Wikimedia page in a normal text editor. Unfortunately, when I pasted it to my Wikimedia entry, all the new…
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