Questions tagged [wiki]
A wiki is a CMS that allows anybody (or almost anybody) to edit it.
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Date / time of Wikidot page Draft
In a Wikidot page, I / the user has written some stuff which was saved into Draft.
This is (very) important, I need to get the time or even just the date that a page's Draft was saved.
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mediawiki - make thumbnails of external images
So I have the code [[File:example.jpg|thumb|caption]]. This works fine for local images and files, but I want to host some images externally. I can't just replace example.jpg with a link though, ...
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Updated MediaWiki to version 1.31. Now Spam Blacklist and Title Blacklist are causing errors
I had (I think) version 1.23 because that's what the auto-installer on my host put there. So I uploaded the files for 1.31 and ran the update.php script. The site seemed to run fine until I tried to ...
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Restrict a particular page in Blue Spice Wiki
I am trying to restrict a certain page on my Blue Spice wiki to only be viewable by certain users or groups. Is there a way to do this? We are using the free version right now.
Thank you,
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Is AMP suitable for a non-periodical website?
I am working on a project to convert some documentation into a mobile-friendly form. The current documentation is outdated and is using MediaWiki, and the formatting is extremely unfriendly for mobile....
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Page-specific skins in MediaWiki?
Is there a way to force a particular skin to be applied while displaying specific MediaWiki articles?
In my wiki many articles will have a "flip" version with alternative content (think "good" and "...
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Do soft 404 errors on wiki sites caused by pages not yet created cause SEO problems?
I host a couple of wiki based sites, so there is a lot of content at various stages of generation, and lots of links to pages that have yet to be created. Of course, these links are generating soft ...
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Legal considerations regarding hosting a MediaWiki site
What legal considerations are there when creating a wiki using MediaWiki for people to use worldwide?
For example, I noticed there are privacy policies & terms and conditions; are these required ...
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Managing images on an open wiki platform
I'm developing a wiki page using MediaWiki and there are a few ways of inplementing images into wiki pages such as uploading them on the website and uploading them on external websites it potentially ...
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Delete non-existant pages from MediaWiki that are listed in Special:allPages
I'm trying to delete two pages:
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Uk:%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Uk:%C3%83%C3%AE%C3%AB%C3%...
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Set up a wiki in watch mode with Hugo static site generator?
In the midst of porting an all HTML site to the Hugo static site generator, my boss asked me to add a wiki to the site. The turn around time on this port + addition of a wiki is somewhat short (about ...
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MediaWiki VCS backend? (Preferrably DVCS like Git or Mercurial) [closed]
As a long-time MediaWiki user, I would like to start a new wiki project because I really appreciate MediaWiki maturity and very flexible and powerful capabilities. But I have doubts that I want to ...
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In what location does Tiki store articles: in the file system or in the MySQL database?
I have a dump of the directory structure from an old Tiki website from around 2010 that is no longer up. I would like to view the raw text of the articles but am unable to locate any files that ...
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Where does TWiki store articles: in the file system or in the MySQL database?
I have a dump of the directory structure from an old TWiki website from around 2010 that is no longer up. I would like to view the raw text of the articles but am unable to locate any files that ...
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How to get a notification whenever a user creates a MediaWiki account?
I'm an administrator and bureaucrat on a few wikis. One wiki allows users to create their own account without approval. Spammers are taking advantage of it and spamming in their profiles.
I checked ...
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MediaWiki links to new articles don't work even after the new article is created until the page with the link is edited
I'm experiencing this issue with MediaWiki 1.23.6.
First I update the Main Page with a link to a new article:
[[New Article]]
Then I click on that link (which is red because the article doesn't ...
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How do I add additional translated items via the MediaWiki Universal Language Selector extension?
I have added some contents to the MediaWiki sidebar (MediaWiki:Sidebar). When I changed the language from English to Malayalam using the Universal Language Selector, everything in the sidebar except ...
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Creating a new namespace in mediawiki
When I googled "create new namespace in mediawiki", I got this. I have created a new namespace using this technique and it worked perfectly. After that because of curiosity I searched in the mediawiki ...
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Does Mediawiki need to be installed twice to support a second website in another language?
I have a wiki which has English as the default language. Now I want the same wiki in "Malayalam". I already have the translated contents with me.
How do I achieve this?
Should I create a sub-domain? ...
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Mediawiki: BlogPage extension not showing up in Special:Version
I have installed the BlogPage extension & other required extensions like Comments, SocialProfile and Votes in mediawiki and changed Localsettings.php like this:
require_once "$IP/extensions/...
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Mediawiki MobileFrontEnd extension error
I have installed the MobleFrontEnd extension in my wiki. It was working perfectly. But after installing some other extension, I updated wiki for updating the new tables to the database. After that ...
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How do I get my Wiki to automatically link dois to their respective websites?
Yet again I must ask this brilliant website for advice, currently, on my Wiki PMIDs are automatically linked provided they're given in the form: PMID #, where # refers to the PMID number. Likewise ...
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How can I get the MediaWiki "Rp" template to work on my wiki? [closed]
I copy-pasted the contents of the English Wikipedia's code for creating the {{rp}} operator (that gives you the page number for a book) to this page. Then I followed all the errors that resulted, ...
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Wikipedia's effect on Google SEO
I've been researching new SEO trends for a few weeks now and I see alot of community buzz about Wikipedia pages effects on Google. For example: When I do a search on Lowe's or Macy's in Google:
I see ...
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How to clean PmWiki from JS:Includer-AWG and protect my site from future infections?
I'm hosting a site for an NGO for several years now. The site seems to be based on a PmWiki backend. I don't know much details because I'm just hosting the site and I'm not the guy who set it up.
I ...
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How to eliminate /wiki/ directory in rewrite rule on a site dedicated for a wiki
I have set up a subdomain of my site (for the purposes of this question I'll call it wiki.example.com), installed a wiki there, and set up URL rewrite according to the article on MediaWiki's website (...
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Invalid categories
I created a sub-category using an ampersand in its name. I somehow managed to successfully place this category into another category and now I'm unable to remove it.
To further complicate this matter,...
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Can Wikipedia content be used on a custom wiki on a site?
I am using Wikipedia content (100+ pages) on a site just as 'articles' and changing certain links within articles from linking to wiki to linking to that source article within that article in 'my' ...
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Is it possible to use both align and size parameters for images in MoinMoin?
I'm getting a 500 Internal Server Error if I try something like {{attachment:image.png|alt text|width=100 align="left"}}, both in the wiki I am actually trying to edit (https://live.gnome.org/) and in ...
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How can I delete all Wiki pages created by spammers except mine in MediaWiki?
I Implemented a MediaWiki site but unfortunately somebody created thousands of pages through thousand of users.
Which query could I run for deleting all pages created by these users except mine?
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SEO wikipedia content and blockquote - duplicate content
I have a large website that aggregates content both from the websites and Wikipedia.
Even thought it's someone else content, the way it's combined is unique ad provides a valuable user experience (...
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How does Wikipedia's SEO work?
I'm currently developing an app for Android and iOS and of course I'm thinking about the best ways to market it.
Last night I Googled somebody else's app and the third link in was a Wikipedia page ...
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way for teachers to post homework assignments [closed]
What kind of product would work to provide a feature on a school website to allow teachers to post homework assignments and allow students / parents to quickly find the assignments by class and ...
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Which wikis have MarkDown support? [duplicate]
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Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
There exist a MarkDown extension for MediaWiki, but it is very buggy.
Does anyone know of wikis that support MarkDown?
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pulp pedia article deletion [closed]
I hope this is the correct stackexchange subsite if not I apologise.
I would like to delete an article from PULP PEDIA, a horrifically rude and not funny website to mimic original wikipedia posts and ...
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Could any current, well supported CMS support a live action role playing game? [duplicate]
A group of friends and I are looking to create a system which will support and allow interactions between a group of up to 70 people using mobile devices (phones and tablets) as part of a science ...
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Run external application on markdown source in ikiwiki
Can I add a button to each wiki page in ikiwiki which launches an external application (on the client side) or script with the markdown code of the current page as input?
Edit: I didn't realize that ...
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Turnkey software for a community website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm looking for some software to run a small community website. Ideally, what I want is:
A wiki
Static pages of some kind, ...
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Looking for a CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I am looking for a specific CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment
on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making ...
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Wiki/Collaboration software: TWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki
As the title suggests, I'm interested in which of these Wikis is the best solution to use.
I'm concerned with:
Features the page editor provides (not all users will be keen on learning new syntax);
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quick wiki solution with inline editing [and AJAX]?
I am trying to set up a site which will implement a fast, lightweight wiki engine:
double click anywhere to append or change text
press a green button to add a resource
drag a link to reorder/add ...
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Add Protocol for MediaWiki Links Besides HTTP
Is there a way to add protocols to linking for MediaWiki?
For example:
Works: [http://www.google.com Google]
Doesn't work: [ftp://www.someplace.com Some FTP place]
Doesn't work: [conisio://something?...
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Wiki Incorporating LaTeX and PHP
I'm a little overwhelmed by the myriad of wiki solutions available. Let me briefly describe what I will be doing and what I think I need. If there are more questions you can ask to help narrow the ...
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What is a good method for creating a guide for standardized markup?
I need to create a guide or wiki that outlines different standardized techniques for marking up reusable elements in our software. When adding new features our developers are often able to reuse or ...
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Secure enterprise wiki technology? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm looking for a secure wiki technology that will allow shared note taking and documentation. Security, organization, and ...
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Wiki Application With A Reputation System
I'm really impressed with Stack Exchange's concept of reputation (you gain reputation as you post, and the more you post, the more privileges you get), and I want to apply the concept to a wiki that I ...
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Which wiki system is better suited? [duplicate]
For my website and coming all sites from now on, I want to have a wiki system, which can -
1) Support internalization easily, that is the wiki has a system to serve contents based on the language ...
anjan
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Best wiki engine to use? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm looking to set up a wiki as a simple CMS for a resource page. Mostly just pdfs and word documents will be hosted, but ...
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Which Bliki (Blog+Wiki) solution can you recommend? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm searching for a good Bliki solution, meaning a combination of blog and wiki that I can install on my own web space. I ...
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What platform do I need? Wiki, Tiki, or something else [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use?
I need to set up a collaborative website, like a wiki but where the items have a predefined structure.
For example, a ...
Jonny White