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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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How to use template parameters in wiki syntaxhighlight?

I would like to use Template parameters within syntaxhighlight. For instance, something like: val x: Boolean = {{{xVal}}} val y: Boolean = {{{yVal}}} | x Where xVal and yVal are the template…
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Wikimedia template failing to render reference properly

I have a template called "problem" with the following definition: ⚠️⚠️ {{{1}}} The intent is to use it like so: {{problem|Describe the problem here.}} and have the description appear in the section. What's actually rendering…
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Wikipedia api doesn't return request id

I'm trying to make several Ajax requests to Wikipedia. The Ajax calls are in a for-loop (JavaScript), which is a problem because they return out of order. In order to work around this I thought I'd include a request ID to the Ajax request as is an…
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Using the Mediawiki API to return a Wikipedia page URL

I found out that I can use: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exintro=&explaintext=&titles=Stack%20Overflow To retrieve the intro section of a Wikipedia page. But now I would like to get the URL of the same…
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MediaWiki Wiki Custom footer depending on category

I was wondering if there was a way, to show certain parts of my footer, only when in certain categories. E.g. a email link (mailto) only when in the Category:FAQ I am using a custom Skin.
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Setting up Phragile with Phabricator

I am trying to setup Phragile with Phabricator. I did the steps mentioned in [https://github.com/wmde/phragile] But I don't understand if Phragile is hosted separately or it is already a part of Phabricator. If it is separate, how do I set up its…
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MediaWiki query wont redirect

I am getting some #REDIRECT in the snippet but i actually want the query to give me the redirected results, is there a way to do that without parsing what the redirect is and initialed another query? I tried setting the parameter redirects but it…
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Wiki Parsoid error - cannot connect to Parsoid Server

I'm trying to set Parsoid extension and Visual Editor on my wiki page. It is NOT on my localhost. Those who will use the Visual Editor must log in, but the content of the wiki can be read without logging in. The address is…
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list=alllinks confusion

I'm doing a research project for the summer and I've got to use get some data from Wikipedia, store it and then do some analysis on it. I'm using the Wikipedia API to gather the data and I've got that down pretty well. What my questions is in…
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How to change file name of a file uploaded inside wiki while keeping change history?

inside wiki I have this: [[file:MF - AAA - QC Sheet.pdf]], which links to the actual PDF file. What I need. I need to change the file name (remove AAA -), while keeping change history of the file, but so far have had no luck. What I have…
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Can I use jquery.uls on a MediaWiki wiki to get a language code from the name of a language in English?

WikiMedia has a jquery plugin called jquery.uls (Universal Language Selector) for choosing a language in all kinds of fancy ways. All MediaWiki sites seem to have it available to the JavaScript running on them via $.uls. There is documentation for…
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Build of Wikipedia Android app fails

these days i tried to build mediaWiki's android platform follow the steps in readMe in https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia. But i got problems in android studio 1.0.1: problem 1: gradle project sync failed .Basic functionality will…
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Script to convert dokuwiki syntax to mediawiki

Does someone knows a script to convert a file containing text formatted using the dokuwiki syntax to a text formatted using the wikimedia syntax?
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Wikipedia API call specifies anonymous edits only, but I get back lots of non-anon edits

I'm trying to pull details on anonymous edits from the Wikimedia API, like…
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Wikimedia Template Font

Does any one know how to get the {{font}} template working in wikimedia? I have just about given up as I cannot find any solid documentation on how to install it. Whenever I wrap text in the {{font}} template it render the text as Template:font…
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