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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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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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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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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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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 ...
user40589
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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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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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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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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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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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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?...
Lionel
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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 ...
user6084
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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
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How are the sitemaps of big MediaWiki sites generated?
This question is related to my questions about things the filesystem of Wikipedia and generating sitemap for Wikipedia. It is more general.
Problem: Suppose a site on MediaWiki with about 10,000 ...
user8926