Logging error on web Wikipedia and iOs app

I have problem with my Wikipedia on web (Chrome) and ios app on Iphone. I keep getting logged out few seconds after logging. There is error: "You have been logged out. There was an error verifying your account..." What can I do? Thank you.

185.14.233.249 (talk) 15:49, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Pulling in main images in page links

I have a categories page which is, of course, automatically generated. Instead of having text-only links however, is there any way I can programatically pull in the main image from each page and use these as my hyperlinks? In otherwords, I'm looking for a categories page that displays each link as a thumbnail image. Thanks! 2A01:4B00:EA15:2200:588A:EF91:AABD:7831 (talk) 00:23, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

So we already do that for File pages.

If you want to do that for general pages. It is possible but would require writing a custom extension in PHP.

Basically you would want to subclass the CategoryPage class. Then you have to use a hook to override the default class and use yours instead. The two choices are the CategoryPageView hook or the ArticleFromTitle hook. Bawolff (talk) 18:47, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

How do I generate a route file using my own car collected GPS data?

I have collected the car motion GPS data on the road. I want to simulation this car trajectory, but I do not know how to import the GPS data to the SUMO to generate a car route. Thanks! Chongachong (talk) 02:57, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

This does not appear to be a question about MediaWiki, which is the topic of this wiki. Whatever "SUMO" stands for, I would suggest you search for a online forum about that and ask your question there. dcljr (talk) 03:02, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

invoke infobox error in Wp/ban not working

admin notifications

Hello dear MediaWiki-Team,

can't find the answer, so I'll try here... Is it possible for an admin to get a notification if someone did some changes on the internetpage?

Thank you for your answer.

Kind regards,

Tadej 46.229.18.130 (talk) 09:09, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

By internetpage, you mean any Wiki page? Notifications are received if the page is in a user's Watchlist. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 10:03, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello Ahmad,

I meant the wiki page of which I'm the admin.

Thank you. 46.229.18.130 (talk) 05:32, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

You can get notifications by email of any pages in your watchlist, as Ahmad pointed out. Add the pages you want to the watchlist and enable notifications by email from your preferences. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:24, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Html2Wiki requires pandoc

I have already install pandoc but it is still showing I have verified the pandoc install on my server. 14.102.63.244 (talk) 12:04, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Please provide way more specific steps and clearer information and output, version information for all involved components, what kind of "server" software this is about, in which exact path pandoc is installed. Malyacko (talk) 18:02, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

does mediawiki support saml authentication?

does mediawiki support saml authentication? if yes, is there a link/doc i can refer to.

43.225.26.50 (talk) 16:23, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes. See Extension:SimpleSAMLphp, which depends upon Extension:PluggableAuth. Cindy.cicalese (talk) 15:55, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Have you tried Extension:SimpleSamlAuth ? Malyacko (talk) 22:21, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I have a working installation of simplesamlphp (https://simplesamlphp.org/download). im able to authenticate against my saml provider.i have installed Extension:SimpleSamlAuth by referring doc. however, when i try to login i get below error

Internal error [XKdaxhDr4SfP0V1CUaxoRAAAAAs] 2019-04-05 13:40:22: Fatal exception of type "InvalidArgumentException". 43.225.26.50 (talk) 13:51, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

See Manual:How to debug how to get a stack trace for that exception. Please also provide exact MediaWiki and exact extension version information. Malyacko (talk) 13:59, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. i enabled debug log, but logs are populated in given path. and yes, path is writable by application. 43.225.26.50 (talk) 14:10, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. i enabled debug log, but logs are *not populated in given path. and yes, path is writable by application. 43.225.26.50 (talk) 14:28, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

@Cindy.cicalese Can you please help me on this? 43.225.26.50 (talk) 14:36, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

@Malyacko

Here is the debug log,

[XKdpHxf6ZEpFzph3rK7NswAAAAM] /index.php/Special:PluggableAuthLogin InvalidArgumentException from line 203 of /var/www/html/includes/session/SessionManager.php: Invalid session ID

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/html/includes/session/PHPSessionHandler.php(215): MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager->getSessionById(string, boolean)

#1 [internal function]: MediaWiki\Session\PHPSessionHandler->read(string)

#2 /var/simplesamlphp/lib/SimpleSAML/SessionHandlerPHP.php(342): session_start()

#3 /var/simplesamlphp/lib/SimpleSAML/Session.php(178): SimpleSAML\SessionHandlerPHP->setCookie(string, string, array)

#4 /var/simplesamlphp/lib/SimpleSAML/Session.php(304): SimpleSAML\Session->__construct()

#5 /var/simplesamlphp/lib/SimpleSAML/Auth/Simple.php(51): SimpleSAML\Session::getSessionFromRequest()

#6 /var/www/html/extensions/SimpleSAMLphp/includes/SimpleSAMLphp.php(250): SimpleSAML\Auth\Simple->__construct(string)

#7 /var/www/html/extensions/SimpleSAMLphp/includes/SimpleSAMLphp.php(145): SimpleSAMLphp::getSAMLClient()

#8 /var/www/html/extensions/PluggableAuth/includes/PluggableAuthLogin.php(31): SimpleSAMLphp->authenticate(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL)

#9 /var/www/html/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(569): PluggableAuthLogin->execute(NULL)

#10 /var/www/html/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(568): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#11 /var/www/html/includes/MediaWiki.php(288): MediaWiki\Special\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#12 /var/www/html/includes/MediaWiki.php(860): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#13 /var/www/html/includes/MediaWiki.php(517): MediaWiki->main()

#14 /var/www/html/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()

#15 {main} 43.225.26.50 (talk) 14:43, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

As wriiten before, Please also provide exact MediaWiki and exact extension version information. Malyacko (talk) 15:00, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, version information is very important. I see the that problem is related to sessions and seems to be using the PHP sessions, which is a known bug. See Extension:SimpleSAMLphp#Known_Bugs for a solution. Cindy.cicalese (talk) 16:02, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

IC7300

Image description pages not loading

I recently noticed that the image description page for images on my wiki are not working most of the time.. sometimes they work for smaller images. If I already have a direct link to an image I can load the image from the server.

Anyway turns out there was a ton of extra traffic due to some russian bots ignoring the robot.txt so I've for the time being shut down all access except for myself but I'm still having the same problems.

I had previously done some maintenance to reduce the size of the database but that was a couple of weeks ago and performance improved greatly as a result until the past couple of days.

Looking at the error logs there seems to be several reoccurring errors.

*Premature end of script headers: php71.cgi

*Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.  

*Directory index forbidden by Options directive: ../wiki/images/thumb/1/  

Some of these seem to have to do with permissions but permissions seem to be fine.

I'm currently on 1.26.3 .. I'm considering upgrading but I'd like to try to sort this out before proceeding with an upgrade.

Any suggestions? Obfuscated (talk) 23:14, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

BTW another possible clue is that you can still upload new images but when you pick the file the destination filename is not auto populated. Obfuscated (talk) 23:24, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Maybe this is a problem with redirect rules on the server being confused by URLs that end in image extensions like .jpg, .png, etc? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:16, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

I don't think so.. it's definitely not something that has been changed in anyway from the defaults. Normally when you click on an image that has been uploaded to the wiki it will take you to a page showing you it's history etc. Also there are a few images that do display their description pages as expected.

For example the wiki code of [[File:myimage.jpg]] has a url of http://www.mywiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:myimage.jpg

Clicking on it should display a page with the history and the image embedded in that page is then hardlinked to the file on the server http://www.mywiki.com/wiki/images/a/a/myimage.jpg

Obfuscated (talk) 16:44, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Maybe setting up a debug log as explained in Manual:How to debug and inspecting the requests that get logged there can give you a clue of what's the problem. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 19:49, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

HTTP 502 error when trying to get VisualEditor to work

I followed the instructions here for setting up parsoid, but when I try to edit a page I get the following error:

Error loading data from server: apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http: HTTP 502. Would you like to retry?

Does anyone know what might have caused it?

Might it be something to do with the parsoid.conf file? I put the following in it:

cert = /etc/ssl/my_certs/parsoid.crt

key = /etc/ssl/my_keys/mykey.key CAfile = /etc/ssl/my_ca/ca.crt

[parsoid]accept = 8143

connect = 8142 83.216.132.79 (talk) 17:37, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

That last bit didn't format very well... Let me try again. My parsoid.conf file actually looks like this:

cert = /etc/ssl/my_certs/parsoid.crt

key = /etc/ssl/my_keys/mykey.key

CAfile = /etc/ssl/my_ca/ca.crt

[parsoid]

accept = 8143

connect = 8142 83.216.132.79 (talk) 17:40, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

In case it helps, my MediaWiki version is 1.32.0, my PHP version is 7.0.33 (litespeed), and my Mariadb version is 10.2.15-MariaDB-cll-lve. 83.216.132.79 (talk) 18:08, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

404 Error right after uploading large video file

So I'm trying to upload a .mp4 video file that goes beyond the 100MB upload limit, I've changed the $wgMaxUploadSize to meet the value above the file I need to upload and everything.

But as I select the file I need and then hit upload right as the upload finishes it throws me a 404 error I can't even get the post upload page, nothing it just keep throwing a 404 error.

BTW

MediaWiki is running on Win Server 16 using IIS 10 with PHP 7.2.16 and running on MySQL 8.0.15. 66.98.50.125 (talk) 19:44, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

https://serverfault.com/questions/863069/receiving-a-404-after-posting-a-large-file-via-php-on-iis Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:27, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Which exact MediaWiki version? What does the IIS error log show? Malyacko (talk) 09:28, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Issues with a picture URL

Hi to all. I am very new to Media Wiki, but I find it brilliant. We made an installation on a VPS just a few days ago and we are starting now entering content. By entering the first picture, I realized there is a bug on the URLs. Let me clarify:

When I am on a "read" mode of an article and click on the image, I am forwarded on the image's page. I can see on the URL that there is the "/index.php?title=File:" and then the filename of the image follows. The page is shown correctly.

Unfortunately that is not happening if I click on the image, while I am on an "edit" mode of the page. Then I am forwarded on a page, where the URL contains "/File:" and the page cannot be found. Please note that I have installed the "VisualEditor" extension and the necessary "parsoid". This error can be reproduced if you place an image in your page and then click on it and then on it's name.

I hope the above information are clear enough in order to reproduce the problem and I hope to help you solve it. AngelPitsos (talk) 21:38, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Can a wiki link (internal or external) simply be duplicated?

Cannot upload GIF images.

Hi There

I have installed the latest Mediawiki 1.32.0 and included the followings in my Localsetting.php

$wgStrictFileExtensions = TURE;

$wgFileExtensions = array('png','jpg','jpeg','ogg','doc','gif','ppt','mp3','sxc','pdf');

But when I try to upload images, it still does not allow me to upload gif. Any advice?

Michael 2001:8003:D036:9900:81F7:C460:9042:A916 (talk) 05:00, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

See if correcting the value of $wgStrictFileExtensions helps? Incorrect spellings. It can also be just left out, as default is already "true". AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 05:33, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

I already have $wgStrictFileExtensions = TURE; and the in the following line have

$wgFileExtensions = array('png','jpg','jpeg','ogg','doc','gif','ppt','mp3','sxc','pdf'); 124.189.34.55 (talk) 05:49, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

true

not

TURE AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 06:32, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you again. Even with true, it did not work. It stil showing me "Permitted file types: png, jpg, jpeg, ogg, doc, xls, ppt, mp3, sxc, pdf." it does not even have the gif in the list. 124.189.34.55 (talk) 12:38, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Check to see if you have more than one $wgFileExtensions line in LocalSettings.php Perhaps a latter entry is overriding your earlier entry. Bawolff (talk) 16:49, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

By nay chance do you have $wgFileBlacklist defined in your LocalSettings.php? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:56, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks,

• I checked and I do not have multiple $wgFileExtensions in LocalSettings.php
• Also, $wgFileBlacklist is not anywhere in my LocalSettings.php

Can you think of any other file that may be overriding Localsetting.php? Is there anything to do with cache or something?

Becasue I still see the error message "Permitted file types: png, jpg, jpeg, ogg, doc, xls, ppt, mp3, sxc, pdf." and still it does not even have the gif in the list. 2001:8003:D036:9900:E88A:5123:B4E3:C115 (talk) 22:02, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Can you check if xls appears anywhere in your config file? In your error message it says that's allowed, but that isn't in the default allow list, and its not in what you said you added to LocalSettings.php, so it must be somewhere.

Check also you are added the correct LocalSettings.php and all that. Bawolff (talk) 22:08, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi Everyone

I solved the issues. However, I don't know the exact cause.

I deleted all the previous code related to this. Refreshed my server cache. Put the code back in and it started to work.

Thanks for the help and though I do not know the reason, sharing this, in case this helps somebody. 124.189.34.55 (talk) 11:02, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

redlinks with 0 members in Spezial:Categories

Moin, in my wiki (v 1.31.1) there are some categories (Spezial:Categories) with redlinks. But they have "0 members". So i searched in Wikipedia and found identical listings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories

Where they come from? Aren't they unnecessary because of nobody want's it (0 members) and they do not exist (redlink)?

Thanks, Paul Paul Hema (talk) 07:16, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

This special page is just an interface to see the contents of the category table. On that manual page you'll see what's tracking it. Probably not very useful. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:21, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Capital Letters displayName

Hi Support Desk,

I have LDAP Extension working and use the $wgLDAPSearchAttributes = array('domain' => 'displayName',); and it works fine logging in with authentication to AD.

But the username becomes in the format Big small instead of Big Big.

Is it possible to set via a hook or somewhere so the last name also is a capital letter?

Regards,

Martin 212.247.15.114 (talk) 08:46, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Error after MediaWiki update

Hello. I updated the MediaWiki version to 1.32.0. Everything seemed to work well at first, but when you search for documents that do not exist, you get a "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError" error.

I checked the error code and it says:

Function: SearchMySQL::searchInternal

Error: 1191 Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list (localhost)

How can I solve this? (Note: I ran update.php.) 51.77.152.216 (talk) 10:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Do Project:Support desk/Flow/2017/09#h-Error_when_searching_for_not_existing_articles-2017-09-26T20:42:00.000Z or Project:Support desk/Flow/2017/12#h-DBQueryError_when_use_search_function-2017-12-31T07:50:00.000Z help? Malyacko (talk) 11:28, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

When I run rebuildtextindex.php, the following error appears:

Error: 1091 Can't DROP 'si_text'; check that column/key exists (localhost)

When I type SHOW CREATE TABLE searchindex; in mysql, the following error appears:

ERROR 1146 (42S02): table 'wikiname.searchindex' does not exist 51.77.152.216 (talk) 11:48, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

I am using 10.1.38-MariaDB 51.77.152.216 (talk) 13:17, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

I solved the problem. Thank you for your help. 51.77.152.216 (talk) 15:22, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

I guess your search_index table was somehow broken. I would try adding the missing columns/indeces manually. 2001:16B8:10D6:4200:D508:5620:1127:16E8 (talk) 17:10, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Job Queue Broken

How to access pages from old Wiki

Hi, not sure if this is the best place to ask this but I've had a look on the FAQs etc here and online but cannot really answer my query. Basically, I have been given a Zip file of all the files from the web server that comprised a wiki in MediaWiki format that I was involved in editing as the publisher does not want to continue publishing it. Ideally, I just want to have a local copy on my PC that I can access as a source of reference for the new Wordpress site I'm setting up with some of the content but I am not sure how to access the Wiki, there is no obvious index.htm and trying to open index.php just comes up with an error about it not being installed. Do I have to install it on my Web server in order to access the contents or is there any way I can view the pages in the database locally? I don't need to edit anything so a read-only function is fine. GaryReggae (talk) 13:29, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Typically the pages of the wiki are in the database, not the filesystem. Unless your zip file includes a database dump, the page contents are not included. Bawolff (talk) 16:39, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

First, the Zip file you have, does it also include a backup of the database of the MediaWiki website? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:42, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I assume the zip file includes the database. I have an older backup of the Wiki that includes the pages but I created that one by using some software that grabbed the pages. I'm hoping to get the pages from this newer zip file so I can compare it with the older one. GaryReggae (talk) 09:42, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

MainCategories in MSCatSelect

makefile missing in Math Extension installation step.

Referring to this exact step:

cd $IP/extensions/Math/

<nowiki>#</nowiki> install the dependencies listed in the Math subfolder README file e.g.:

sudo apt-get install build-essential ocaml

make

When I reach the step of make, nothing happens because there is no makefile.

root@wiki:/var/www/html/wiki/extensions/Math# make

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

root@wiki:/var/www/html/wiki/extensions/Math# sudo apt-get install build-essential ocaml

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

build-essential is already the newest version (12.4ubuntu1).

ocaml is already the newest version (4.05.0-10ubuntu1).

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.

root@wiki:/var/www/html/wiki/extensions/Math# make

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Should I just ignore this problem?  Should this make step even be in the wiki?

The details: Ubuntu 18.04 Server, nginx1.14.0, php7.2, MySQL15.1, Latest MediaWiki installed manually, Latest Math extension installed manually 170.199.250.52 (talk) 04:13, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

There's no Makefile on that folder. Looks like the rendering engine of Math no longer requires to run make. Those instructions seem to be outdated. Try to skip the "make" command and see if it works... I've marked that section as outdated Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:19, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, the instructions are out of date. I'm at a point of indecision of how to proceed.

There are these choices:

Server-side rendering with Mathoid,

Server-side rendering with LaTeXML, and

Server-side rendering with LaTeX.

The first one says it will be used on future Wikipedia articles but it appears this was written in the v1.22-v1.23 era and not certain if that stance still holds. The second two are attractive in that I have 20 years of TeX experience and already know how to form any equation that is dreamed up, not so with Mathoid (of which I can't find as much as a demo for). But if it's supported going forward by Wikipedia, I suspect that is where continued support and active development will be, and I'll follow that line regardless of experience.

This is being installed on a VM, so I think I will make a backup of the current state and try all three approaches and see how they compare and see which one has ugly/aesthetic outputs.

Any, proceeding forward from the 'make' step towards Mathoid. 170.199.250.52 (talk) 15:53, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

I did the Debian Stretch approach as the Ubuntu steps are unmaintained and thus unsupported. I have enough experience between the two, I can adapt to fit. The symlink for node as done by nodejs-legacy has already been done by default in Ubuntu, so that is allowed to be omitted.

I followed the steps. They don't work.

Manual:Mathoid#NPM package (Debian Stretch)

# systemctl status mathoid

● mathoid.service - Mediawiki Mathoid Service

   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mathoid.service; enabled; vendor preset:

   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-04-05 16:26:04 UTC; 6s ago

     Docs: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mathoid

  Process: 6323 ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /usr/local/lib/mathoid/server.js (code=e

Main PID: 6323 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki node[6323]:     at Module.require (module.js:596:17)

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki node[6323]:     at require (internal/module.js:11:18)

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki node[6323]:     at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/matho

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki node[6323]:     at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki node[6323]:     at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki node[6323]:     at Module.load (module.js:565:32)

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki node[6323]:     at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki node[6323]:     at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki systemd[1]: mathoid.service: Main process exited, code=exit

Apr 05 16:26:04 wiki systemd[1]: mathoid.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'

On this step, I got a strange and useless kind of error. You'd think we'd be beyond the days of "1/FAILURE" in this era of machines with gigabytes of RAM for detailed messages... I am somebody whom hasn't done anything with Javascript since very briefly in the late 90s? What does this mean? 170.199.250.52 (talk) 16:37, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Okay - Those instructions are useless. That part of the wiki is obsolete and incorrect. I installed Debian 9, just to try the Mathoid installation steps there since the Ubuntu installation is unmaintained. I got the same error. The documentation is wrong. 170.199.250.52 (talk) 19:54, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

How did Wikipedia do this? I really don't feeling like editing Wikipedia pages as a means of generating images with equations that I have to download and upload in order to make my wiki have the appearance of a working Math plugin. Seriously? Is Wikipedia the only working installation of the Math plugin? What the hell... I thought wikis were supposed to help with documentation. I just simply don't get it. I have no words... 170.199.250.52 (talk) 21:23, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

There's a "npm install" instruction missing after "cd mathoid". I've added it Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 13:19, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

npm package is not available for Debian Stretch. Those steps do not work for Debian 9. Deleting that line from that wiki does not change that fact. It doesn't work - that is true. There is no npm package. The sudo apt-get install line 5 lines above WILL result in a failure. 170.199.250.52 (talk) 19:08, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

There's a npm package, just not in the usual debian repositories. You need to add the repository for nodejs on your system. The installation instructions omit that part about nodejs

I issued this 1 year ago when I installed it on my server, and it worked perfectly:

curl -s "https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key" | sudo apt-key add -

echo "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:12, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

the search box on https://stt.wiki is throwing errors every time.

I don't know who to report this to....

the search box on https://stt.wiki is throwing errors every time.

The front page comes up fine but searching throws an error every time, the error code changes each time. FredNapier (talk) 11:18, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

If something is broken on stt.wiki then you need to contact the maintainers of stt.wiki. stt.wiki might use MediaWiki like thousands of other web sites, but the folks on mediawiki.org are not in charge of administering thousands of other web sites. Malyacko (talk) 12:20, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Just in case someone else ends up looking here, Timeline's wiki tech support is via the About at the bottom of the main page: https://stt.wiki/wiki/Star_Trek_Timelines:About FredNapier (talk) 14:57, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

JS config name of the leave page with changes warning

What's the config name of the pop up that warns you on leaving a page with unsaved changes?

I want to disable it for a certain page in my user js. 78.94.95.51 (talk) 11:26, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

I'm afraid you need to ask in a forum of your web browser. What makes you think it is a MediaWiki dialog? Malyacko (talk) 12:19, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Database error

[1fc27d5c7daae9a62ade5f6c] /index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from line 1496 of /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading?

Query: SELECT ipb_id,ipb_address,ipb_timestamp,ipb_auto,ipb_anon_only,ipb_create_account,ipb_enable_autoblock,ipb_expiry,ipb_deleted,ipb_block_email,ipb_allow_usertalk,ipb_parent_block_id,ipb_reason AS `ipb_reason_text`,NULL AS `ipb_reason_data`,NULL AS `ipb_reason_cid`,ipb_by,ipb_by_text,NULL AS `ipb_by_actor` FROM `ipblocks` WHERE ipb_address IN ('59.95.57.22','59.95.57.22') OR ((ipb_range_start LIKE '3B5F%' ESCAPE '`' ) AND (ipb_range_start <= '3B5F3916') AND (ipb_range_end >= '3B5F3916'))

Function: Block::newLoad

Error: 1054 Unknown column 'ipb_reason' in 'field list' (localhost)

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1466): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->makeQueryException(string, integer, string, string)

#1 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1226): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportQueryError(string, integer, string, string, boolean)

#2 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1693): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)

#3 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/Block.php(349): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->select(array, array, string, string, array, array)

#4 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/Block.php(1196): Block->newLoad(string)

#5 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/user/User.php(1865): Block::newFromTarget(User, string, boolean)

#6 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/user/User.php(2292): User->getBlockedStatus(boolean)

#7 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/user/User.php(2282): User->getBlock(boolean)

#8 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/user/User.php(2306): User->isBlocked(boolean)

#9 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/Title.php(2692): User->isBlockedFrom(Title, boolean)

#10 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/Title.php(2864): Title->checkUserBlock(string, User, array, string, boolean)

#11 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/Title.php(2205): Title->getUserPermissionsErrorsInternal(string, User, string)

#12 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/EditPage.php(711): Title->getUserPermissionsErrors(string, User, string)

#13 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/EditPage.php(618): EditPage->getEditPermissionErrors(string)

#14 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/actions/EditAction.php(60): EditPage->edit()

#15 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(501): EditAction->show()

#16 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(294): MediaWiki->performAction(Article, Title)

#17 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(860): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#18 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(517): MediaWiki->main()

#19 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()

#20 {main} 59.95.57.117 (talk) 11:49, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

What happened before? Did this happen out of the blue? Did you upgrade something? Which MediaWiki version is this about? Malyacko (talk) 12:18, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank for reply , please check the live http://cisa2k.org/ , I have just installed MediaWiki with proper process as instructed in manual.

This is Mediawiki 1.32 lates version installed by this command:

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git

composer install --no-dev.

Install database set all privileges :

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikidb.* TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

What happened before? The skin folder was not there when I install via core, I have installed manually vector skin . 59.95.57.117 (talk) 13:38, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

What version is this? ipb_reason was removed in 0abb9338f8, which will be in MediaWiki 1.33, however it has not been removed in any released version as of yet. If you are using MW 1.32 the field should have been created during install Bawolff (talk) 16:12, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

First I have cloning the repository via Git , and install and shown that it was MediaWiki 1.33 beta, then I have installed the version is Mediawiki 1.32, via this commantd

wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.32/mediawiki-1.32.0.tar.gz Jayantanth (talk) 17:16, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

And I have update via my your webbrowser to /mw-config/. that is your webbrowser to http://cisa2k.org/mw-config/. Jayantanth (talk) 17:25, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

So yeah, delete everything and re-install. MediaWiki installer is per version. Update.php supports updating the version but not down-grading. You need to run the installer from the same version as the version of mediawiki you are using. Bawolff (talk) 17:33, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for reply but after remove all previous installation , re-install the same and found below error

[88eefeb0736fca9f8e324691] /index.php/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Main_Page Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from line 1496 of /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading?

Query: (SELECT rc_id,rc_timestamp,rc_namespace,rc_title,rc_minor,rc_bot,rc_new,rc_cur_id,rc_this_oldid,rc_last_oldid,rc_type,rc_source,rc_patrolled,rc_ip,rc_old_len,rc_new_len,rc_deleted,rc_logid,rc_log_type,rc_log_action,rc_params,rc_comment AS `rc_comment_text`,NULL AS `rc_comment_data`,NULL AS `rc_comment_cid`,rc_user,rc_user_text,NULL AS `rc_actor`,page_latest,(SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(ct_tag SEPARATOR ',') FROM `change_tag` WHERE ct_rc_id=rc_id ) AS `ts_tags` FROM `recentchanges` LEFT JOIN `page` ON ((rc_cur_id=page_id)) INNER JOIN `pagelinks` ON ((rc_namespace = pl_namespace) AND (rc_title = pl_title)) WHERE rc_bot = '0' AND (rc_timestamp >= '20190329201542') AND pl_from = '1' ORDER BY rc_timestamp DESC LIMIT 50 ) UNION (SELECT rc_id,rc_timestamp,rc_namespace,rc_title,rc_minor,rc_bot,rc_new,rc_cur_id,rc_this_oldid,rc_last_oldid,rc_type,rc_source,rc_patrolled,rc_ip,rc_old_len,rc_new_len,rc_deleted,rc_logid,rc_log_type,rc_log_action,rc_params,rc_comment AS `rc_comment_text`,NULL AS `rc_comment_data`,NULL AS `rc_comment_cid`,rc_user,rc_user_text,NULL AS `rc_actor`,page_latest,(SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(ct_tag SEPARATOR ',') FROM `change_tag` WHERE ct_rc_id=rc_id ) AS `ts_tags` FROM `recentchanges` LEFT JOIN `page` ON ((rc_cur_id=page_id)) INNER JOIN `templatelinks` ON ((rc_namespace = tl_namespace) AND (rc_title = tl_title)) WHERE rc_bot = '0' AND (rc_timestamp >= '20190329201542') AND tl_from = '1' ORDER BY rc_timestamp DESC LIMIT 50 ) UNION (SELECT rc_id,rc_timestamp,rc_namespace,rc_title,rc_minor,rc_bot,rc_new,rc_cur_id,rc_this_oldid,rc_last_oldid,rc_type,rc_source,rc_patrolled,rc_ip,rc_old_len,rc_new_len,rc_deleted,rc_logid,rc_log_type,rc_log_action,rc_params,rc_comment AS `rc_comment_text`,NULL AS `rc_comment_data`,NULL AS `rc_comment_cid`,rc_user,rc_user_text,NULL AS `rc_actor`,page_latest,(SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(ct_tag SEPARATOR ',') FROM `change_tag` WHERE ct_rc_id=rc_id ) AS `ts_tags` FROM `recentchanges` LEFT JOIN `page` ON ((rc_cur_id=page_id)) INNER JOIN `imagelinks` ON ((rc_title = il_to)) WHERE rc_bot = '0' AND (rc_timestamp >= '20190329201542') AND il_from = '1' AND rc_namespace = '6' ORDER BY rc_timestamp DESC LIMIT 50 ) ORDER BY rc_timestamp DESC LIMIT 50

Function: SpecialRecentChangesLinked::doMainQuery

Error: 1054 Unknown column 'rc_comment' in 'field list' (localhost)

Backtrace:

1. 0 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1466): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->makeQueryException(string, integer, string, string)
2. 1 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1226): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportQueryError(string, integer, string, string, boolean)
3. 2 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchangeslinked.php(231): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)
4. 3 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/specialpage/ChangesListSpecialPage.php(934): SpecialRecentChangesLinked->doMainQuery(array, array, array, array, array, FormOptions)
5. 4 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/specialpage/ChangesListSpecialPage.php(629): ChangesListSpecialPage->getRows()
6. 5 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php(167): ChangesListSpecialPage->execute(string)
7. 6 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(569): SpecialRecentChanges->execute(string)
8. 7 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(568): SpecialPage->run(string)
9. 8 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(288): MediaWiki\Special\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(Title, RequestContext)
10. 9 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(860): MediaWiki->performRequest()
11. 10 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(517): MediaWiki->main()
12. 11 /var/www/cisa2kwiki/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()
13. 12 {main} Jayantanth (talk) 20:18, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

So did you run your application's database schema updater after upgrading? Which exact steps did you perform, step by step, without any room left for interpretation? Malyacko (talk) 16:01, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Probs while installing

Permissoes de Grupo

Bom dia.

Gostaria de separar minha wiki em Grupos. Ex.: Tem um grupo que nao poder ler nem ter acesso em determinada pagina.

Não estou conseguindo achar como fazer isso. Alguém sabe? Gustavoecp (talk) 13:16, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Need to change LocalSettings.php.

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

See Manual:Preventing_access 94rain ^Talk 13:27, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Edit toolbar

Is it okay to use MediaWiki:Common.css?

How to make mutual links between two pages?

I will often need two related two wiki pages with mutual links. Manual editing of both two pages is inconvenient and error-prone (a link may be mistakenly made just in one direction).

How to do this more automatically to make links mutual?

Using "What links here" is not what I need, because it is located in the sidebar and as a link, not noticeably on the page, as I need. VictorPorton (talk) 01:17, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Some extension for mutual links? VictorPorton (talk) 01:22, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

You can try using Navigation templates

For example, create a template like this

en:Template:Policy_list

.

And then add {{Policy_list}} to those pages.

All you need to do is to change

en:Template:Template:Policy_list. 94rain ^Talk 03:36, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

You could transclude the "What links here" Special page. Jonathan3 (talk) 21:53, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

I've looked long and hard for this, my best solution is to use the advanced DPL query

|{{#dpl:
| debug=1
| namespace=
| notlinksfrom={{PAGENAME}}
| linksto={{PAGENAME}}
| reset=links
| mode=inline
| ordermethod=title
| redirects=exclude
| suppresserrors=true
}}
|}

Which shows unbalanced links. It doesn't handle incoming pages coming through a redirect though. Ie Victor Hugo is French, French redirects to France Vicarage (talk) 14:46, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Here's what I'm using:

{{#dpl:
| linksto = {{PAGENAME}} 
| notnamespace=Category
| nottitlematch = ............ (I have a few of these lines)
| notnamespace = ............ (likewise)
| noresultsheader=
*No pages link to this page
| eliminate = all 
}}

Jonathan3 (talk) 23:12, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

close my hamsterlive account

Error when uploading the site files to my host

Hi, I don't understand why , when I decided to put the files of mediawiki I had on wamp server who were working perfectly, I got an error , so I edit my localsettings.php to add

$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;

$wgShowDBErrorBacktrace = true;

lines , and then when I open up the site , I have this error :https://prnt.sc/n8ctl6

Maybe it cames from when they ask me on filezilla that there are two same files and I clicked everytime on "replace all" , thx. 2A01:CB08:5DF:BE00:8555:D358:31CA:B8EF (talk) 15:37, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

It's unclear what you are doing and what you did before. When was it "working perfectly"? In any case the error says that MediaWiki cannot connect to your database, so check your database settings... Malyacko (talk) 15:59, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Can't install AntiSpoof

We've been trying to install that extension on a wiki, but we have been hit with an error which seems to be due to WMF-dependent extensions or libraries: [9734fc9b17ece108026ceeeb] /wiki/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Main+Page Error from line 148 of ...\wiki\extensions\AntiSpoof\includes\AntiSpoof.php: Class 'Wikimedia\Equivset\Equivset' not found Backtrace: [back trace]

The admin does not recall using Composer at all, which is something that was suggested while trying to fix the problem.
Help on this would be appreciated, thanks. Leaderboard (talk) 09:56, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Is the extension being installed through Git? If so, then composer install/update is necessary. If it wasn't done before, what can't composer be simply installed/updated now?

Also check if the MediaWiki and extension versions match. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 11:31, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Are you downloading the extension for the same MediaWiki version you're using? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 13:20, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder: Yes, he's told me that he installed the 1.32 version of AntiSpoof, which is the same version as on the wiki.

@AhmadF.Cheema: I think he got the extension from the MediaWiki extension distribution site. Leaderboard (talk) 13:50, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

CSS not loading

Hello , I'm working on a website with 000webhost , and my file structure is like : /public_html/wiki/...

so I installed my wiki , but when I go on the site, transfering the files of mediawiki with file zilla (ftp access),there is an error : It doesn't want to load the css part.

Here is what the developer console shows: https://prnt.sc/n8o22h .

I saw it has a link with the .htaccess file and rewrite function but I don't know how it functions and when I copy past this Manual:Load.php in the file, it changes nothing , hope you'll help me, thanks. 2A01:CB08:5DF:BE00:948E:AEE7:95B9:26E3 (talk) 14:27, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

You're question is a little confusing.

Exactly, which files are you uploading with FileZilla? Did you originally upload the MediaWiki files through FileZilla and then installed the Wiki or did you somehow first install the Wiki and then uploaded some files through FileZilla?

Additionally, the styles not applied error, on which page does it occur? Is it the Main Page of the Wiki? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:09, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Yep I first upload the mediawiki files through filezilla and then I installed the wiki. And the problem did occur on the mainpage of the wiki 2A01:CB08:5DF:BE00:948E:AEE7:95B9:26E3 (talk) 16:25, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

See Manual:Errors and symptoms#The wiki appears without styles applied and images are missing AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 16:29, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Yeah I checked but they tell me that its a problem with the .htaccess file whereas I edited it like they said with this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f

RewriteRule (api|load)\.php - [L]

...

and It changes nothing 2A01:CB08:5DF:BE00:948E:AEE7:95B9:26E3 (talk) 16:35, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki doesn't work on free hosts like 000webhost that inject ads in JavaScript files and imposes several limitations in the use of PHP functions Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:42, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

thank you for answering me ! 2A01:CB08:5DF:BE00:1172:76DE:1B2A:9CE1 (talk) 08:12, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Admin/Sysop Can't Edit Template Namespace

MediaWiki 1.23.9 PHP 5.6.40 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL 5.6.41-84.1

Attempting to edit a template page, but am getting the following message:

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: You do not have permission to edit pages in the Template namespace.

The user account being used is a member of Administrators and Bureaucrats. There is no sysop user group listed that users can be added to, but in the user_groups table, the ID in question is a member of sysop.

How do I edit pages in the template namespace, or alternatively, remove the page from that namespace? 97.105.0.2 (talk) 16:47, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

On an unrelated note, 1.23 is ancient unsupported insecure software. Please upgrade to a supported version for your own safety. Malyacko (talk) 21:21, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

See if you have $wgNamespaceProtection set-up in your LocalSettings.php? If so, what is its value? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 23:34, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Is there any way to reset LocalSettings.php? or can someone help me fix my 500 error?

Upload file : underscore are replaced by space

Javascript when debug=false not processing

latex editing

instead of wiki markup i'd like to edit with latex

with the ability to view pdf output in 'preview' button

with images, if i mention foo.png in latex it automatically loads the image from File:foo.png

is such a feature available? Gryllida 01:42, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

I don't see any relation to MediaWiki in this thread. If you want to edit some text with Latex and export to PDF, use a Latex editor and export your Latex text to PDF? Malyacko (talk) 08:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Malyacko, thanks, but I would like to have collaborative editing of the latex markup, with history of changes and the talk page for discussions Gryllida 23:27, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Most you can do is using latex inside <math>. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:33, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Ciencia. I guess this can be a good starting point for writing a new extension. Gryllida 23:28, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

I found mediawiki2latex, which partially addresses this goal. I've queried the author about inserting page breaks here. Gryllida 23:28, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

I keep getting material in other languages. i want everything in English

LATELY i GET INFORMATION IN FOREIGN

LANGUAGES. i WANT EVERYTHING IN eNGLISH. 2601:646:8781:8363:4D8F:B643:E922:ABAF (talk) 02:14, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Which foreign languages do you get? What exactly do you encounter? Please explain in details. 94rain ^Talk 02:16, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

We ended up with 8 pages that contain "%E2%80%8B" in the URL

We moved some content pages from other resources such as OneNote. Many times pages were created from pasted strings copied from those sources. We ended up with 8 pages that contain "%E2%80%8B" in the URL. I can see the page in the list of pages and it is blue. When I click on it I get taken to the page does not exist dialog and am offered a chance to create it. On a couple cases I did this and ended up with 2 copies of the exact same name, as it appears in the All pages list. But if I click on the one with "%E2%80%8B" in it I get offered the opportunity to create it since it does not exist.

I know the full URL with the Fixed Width Space character included. Is there a way to force that to be deleted. Going to it does not provide the delete option under "More" since the system does not think the page exists.

WikimeSteve (talk) 16:37, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Apparently that's the left-to-right mark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark

I wonder if you could just edit page_title in the page table: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table#page_title Jonathan3 (talk) 22:05, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

You can try to run cleanupTitles.php to see if it automatically fixes them. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:28, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

I worked out a solution and will post it in case it helps someone else.

When I would click on the link and it would lead to the page does not exist and give the option to Create it. When I tried to create it, I noticed the URL had the hidden character (encoding) stripped out and just added the “&action=edit”. I tried injecting the hidden characters into their proper place in the URL like “%E2%80%8B&action=edit” and hit enter. Suddenly the content I was sure the page contained showed up. I was now offered a chance to use the More drop-down to select Delete. I copied the content source and saved it in notepad. I then deleted the page with a note not to restore it. Now I could create a normal title page and paste the content back in. Only thing I lost was the history. WikimeSteve (talk) 21:09, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

If it gave the option to delete it, you could have tried to rename it instead Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:12, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

I tried to rename it but it gave an error since the system did not think the object really existed. Trying to protect it failed as well. Seemed like, if as a next step it had to do something new with the URL, it would strip the hidden character and lose contact with the page. Sadly I did not think to capture those effort result more precisely. WikimeSteve (talk) 14:39, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Calendar on Special:Log changed to match Special:Contributions

Recently, the calendar on Special:Log under "From date (and earlier):" has changed to match the one on Special:Contributions. Some differences are that the current version shows days of the week with 2 initial letters instead of just 1, has an up-arrow to go to the list of the 12 months of the year and then the list of the 20 years in 2 decades, shows the last 7 days of the preceding month for months that start on Sunday (or equivalently, have a Friday the 13th), and does not have separate boxes for the day of the week, day of the month, month, and year. Neither SpecialLog.php nor LogPager.php has changed in MediaWiki 1.33/wmf.24, so this must have been caused by a change to another file. Does anyone know the patch that caused the calendar on Special:Log to change its style to the Special:Contributions style? GTrang (talk) 02:05, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Has this been reported on phabricator? That's the place to report such issues, since WMF developers usually don't come here to find such bugs Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:27, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect information on a Wikipedia page

Lockdown still bugged?

Running on version 1.32 but I have a problem getting this to work - look at [[Extension talk:Lockdown]] for further description.

Say $wgSpecialPageLockdown['Export'] = [ 'user' ];

Should prevent 'user' from export, but it don't? AssetDenmark (talk) 12:56, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Extension:Lockdown has more than a few bugs and appears to not have been actively maintained. For locking special pages, perhaps Extension talk:Lockdown/Archive 2/Flow export#h-Locking_down_special_pages-2011-11-20T10:30:00.000Z would be better. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 15:28, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

To be true: This extension does not do what its name suggests it does. Have you found another bug - apart from that? 2001:16B8:1007:3200:7D06:7E6A:4AAE:B872 (talk) 16:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks @AhmadF.Cheema- the linked Extension talk:Lockdown/Archive 2/Flow export#h-Locking_down_special_pages-2011-11-20T10:30:00.000Z works perfectly even when you try to got to (type in) Special:Export in the browser...

I have a locally installment in version 1.18, where Lockdown worked just fine, but it could be "bugged" as I would not have any idea on how to "hack" Wiki.

I will perhaps look a bit more into the hooks used by Lockdown and figure out if i can do similar stuff for other namespaces.

AssetDenmark (talk) 05:53, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks to this Extension talk:Lockdown/Archive 2/Flow export#h-Locking_down_special_pages-2011-11-20T10:30:00.000Z - i can now exclude users from Specialpages... please look at that topic for my comments!

$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown['*']['edit'] = [ 'sysop' ];

IS working fine for me.. and I can also add namespacve permissions to selected users... like this.

$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_Baggrund]['read'] = array('user');

$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_Baggrund_TALK]['*'] = array('user');

Tip you can also add a new user group, that 'sysop' can then assigned. Say I have some namespace material that should only be available to 'user' (registered), and then some that should be available it I give permission. To create a new group, this group will be on the you must have lines (one for each group) like this in the localsettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['your-permisison-group']['read']   = false;

AssetDenmark (talk) 08:26, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

60 upvalues max in wiki LUA

I have got several times an error about "60 upvalues" in a LUA module. The thing refuses to even save my code in such a case. 60 is a pretty low limit, for example some BASIC dialects from the 70'ties allowed 128 variables in a program. Apparently it is possible to pack several values into a table or make them "global" (well ... nothing is global, and global is evil at wiki as we found out from former discussions). Is this restriction documented somewhere? Taylor 49 (talk) 17:18, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

This is a hard limit of lua (i believe in their compiler.) If you google, you'll find that many users of other lua based runtimes have run into it as well. 60 local variables is quite a lot though, for a block/function scoped language. Are you defining all your functions as local variables or within a single block or something ?

> 60 is a pretty low limit, for example some BASIC dialects from the 70'ties allowed 128 variables in a program

Lua is a language specifically designed to be small and very low on complexity, to provide very manageable and safe scripting. That's why there are restrictions like that. See also: https://www.lua.org/about.html and https://www.lua.org/wshop16/Ierusalimschy.pdf —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks ... of course low complexity is great and high complexity sucks ... I am defining constants as "up-variables" as there does not seem to be any genuine "const" thing in LUA. I want to have my (mostly string) constants bunched at the beginning of the module in order to make editing or switching language easy. Is the 60-limit documented or justified somewhere? Taylor 49 (talk) 21:07, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

updating wiki 1.24.2 to 1.30.1

Some strange question marks

Hello, yesterday my wiki got two question marks on left top screen. I don't know how to remove it, it appeared of nowhere.

I am using MediaWiki 1.30.1

That's how it look 79.133.153.198 (talk) 12:50, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Looks like invalid characters.

Is this at the place of the logo or in the article content space? Also, is your Wiki in English? Have you checked the Wiki page through different browsers? Any recent updates performed? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 13:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Corrupted UTF-8 text (cut in the middle of a char). Taylor 49 (talk) 21:13, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Access control check error: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present

I've been fetching data from Wikipedia endpoints successfully, but recently have been sporadically receiving error messages along the lines of:

Access to XMLHttpRequest from origin 'localhost:3000' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

For reference, my queries (with the endpoint redacted to avoid a spam filter on this forum) are formatted as: action=opensearch&origin=*&format=json&search=${search}.

Since the exact same requests were working previously--and since, when I paste the query into my browser, it returns the expected results--I'm wondering if there's a bug with the API, perhaps to do with the origin=* authorization? Any help would be greatly appreciated! 173.75.231.32 (talk) 16:13, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

You may need to set Manual:$wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:43, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

How do I setup MediaWiki for Mac using LocalHost?

I would like to setup a localhost server for MediaWiki using XAMPP and PHPMyAdmin.

The tutorials located on the Manual Page for WikiMedia describe no localhost features using XAMPP and PHPMyAdmin.

All YouTube videos are using Windows 7 or greater.

Thank you!

Parsz1va1 (talk) 23:00, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Have you tried Manual:Running MediaWiki on Mac OS X ? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:34, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

copywright images?

Can images on wikipedia be reused? Are there any rights behind specific images? And if so, where can be see which images can be used and wich ones are copywrighted? 157.193.240.3 (talk) 06:58, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

The copyright information for each image is present on its Wiki page. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 07:10, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Automatically Purge Page every hour

visualeditor with contentEditable

I'm looking for a visual editor which does not require waiting for the parser to load like in visualeditor. My markup is pretty simple -- lists, bold, italic -- I hope there is an extension that uses contenteditable=true to allow editing the wiki? Gryllida 19:22, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

No. If it was possible to support MediaWiki simply, that's what VisualEditor would have done. :-) You should find a different wiki back-end if you want something that simple. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:49, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Own home page

When logging in to a wiki, normaly the users get the home page.

1) Is it possible to change the default to any other page ?

2) Is it possible that every user should come to a specific page by default for Ex: to his user page ? 2610S (talk) 05:19, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

You may force a redirect using the UserLoginComplete hook. To only change the link it points on the success login page you may use the PostLoginRedirect hook Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:11, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder Can you help me and simplify what I need to do, for Ex: if I want than the user 'john' should be directed to a page named 'support', and 'jake' should be directed to a page named 'help', how do I do it ?

What do need to write in the Localsettingsfile and what in other files.

THANKS 2610S (talk) 05:04, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

You would add this to LocalSettings.php:

$wgHooks['UserLoginComplete'][] = function( User &$user, &$inject_html, $direct ) {
	if ( $user != null ) {
		switch( $user->getName() ) {
			case 'John':
				header('Location: '. Title::newFromText('Support')->getFullUrl());
				exit();
				break;
			case 'Jake':
				header('Location: '. Title::newFromText('Help')->getFullUrl());
				exit();
				break;
		}
	}
};

Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:26, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Lua not working on GreyHawkWiki

Mediawiki not providing "gapfrom" response

We are running into an issue with MediWiki not sending a “gapfrom” response when the limit of 500 pages is reached while trying to migrate using Quest's Content Matrix tool..

This is the wording from Quest…

Thank you for your patience on this ongoing issue. We now have an understanding of the underlying reason for missing pages:

The current architecture of “Content Matrix Blogs and Wiki Edition” relies on “gapFrom” property in MediaWiki’s response, to load the next set of pages.  Given below is an example of  response from "MediaWiki" version 1.16.1. It has the “gapFrom” which tells what is the next pages in sequence:

<?xml version="1.0"?><api><query-continue><allpages gapfrom="Once Upon a Time in the West" />

Newer versions of MediaWiki API, no longer include that gapFrom property in the response.  Given below is the response from your Mediawiki ( version 1.26.2):

<?xml version="1.0"?><api><warnings><query xml:space="preserve">Formatting of continuation data has changed. To receive raw query-continue data, use the 'rawcontinue' parameter. To silence this warning, pass an empty string for 'continue' in the initial query.</query></warnings><continue clcontinue="27|DS:eCapture" imcontinue="24|BatchingFiles.PNG" continue="||info|revisions" /><query><pages><

Content Matrix is unable to load the remaining pages due to that missing gapFrom property in newer versions of MediaWiki

Thanks in advance! SharePointyGuy (talk) 14:28, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

You should open a ticket with Quest's Content Matrix support to tell them about the problem and adapt their use of the api to the new format Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:07, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

missing files after clean installation

Hi,

i have install a new version of medawiki but i get the php fatal error: Uncaught Exception: /var/customers/webs/Anzah/rollenspiel.wiki/skins/Splash/skin.json But in the LocalSettings.php there's no mention of splash anywhere. 93.212.25.183 (talk) 15:08, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

If you use a php op-cache extension (wincache, APCu, etc), it may still have the old LocalSettings.php cached. Try restarting your webserver, although this won't be possible if you're on a shared host... Open a ticket to your hosting support in that case. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:05, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

change headings to sans-serif

how can I change all headings to sans-serif via common.css?

thank you

79.143.111.185 (talk) 16:43, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_edit_the_wiki's_CSS? Malyacko (talk) 18:20, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

could not find it there yet but I will read the whole FAQ on Sunday, thank you for the link. 79.143.111.185 (talk) 18:24, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

why would you want to change that? 79.143.111.185 (talk) 17:31, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

you could try this also:

.mw-body .firstHeading { font-family: sans-serif; }

.mw-headline { font-family: sans-serif; } 79.143.111.185 (talk) 18:22, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Upgrade from 1.17 to 1.32

JavaScript get link to audio file from name

My script has a name of the file and I want to somehow get the link to it in the common.js file for putting in a <audio> tag.

I am using the newest version of MediaWiki.

I know JS so I can adapt a script. 88.156.243.136 (talk) 12:25, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

You can use Special:FilePath, like Special:FilePath/Example.png Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:40, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Mathematical operations

Hi there!

Im running a wiki about sport statistics and keeping the data up to date can be pretty time consuming.

Is there any way to make the wiki do simple mathematical operations, f.e. lets say I want to divide the number {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Games won vs. Team X}} by the number {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Games Played vs. Team X}}.

Thanks in advance,

Tim Hessentotal (talk) 12:48, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

This can be done with LUA or "#expr" : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##expr. Example: https://id.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Templat:HitungVoting&action=edit Taylor 49 (talk) 04:56, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Hessentotal (talk) 09:34, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Autocomplete search doesn't work anymore

Since last week the autocomplete (which I installed in Mediawiki Version 1.23.9 ) doesn't works anymore and I didn't change anything. I have also a website running on Mediawiki Version 1.23.13 and this works fine. Anyone has the same problem or has a solution ? 91.178.66.78 (talk) 17:32, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Can InterWiki links be handled as external links?

In my opinion the default rendering of InterWiki links is quite ugly. There is a lot of InterWiki links in my wiki with very messy (for most users) prefixes. Id like to omit those prefixes so links like xyz:article would be shown just plain "article". Nonetheless it is desired to make some notice that the link is external.

So is there a way to treat Interwiki links as external links so it can be written for example article and still have the arrow used for external links to notice that the links is not within the wiki?

In addition id like to ask whether the arrow image can be modified according to the interwiki prefix ( so for example [[gen:article]] could render to "article" with gentoo logo in stead of the normal arrow and [[arch:article]] would render to "article" with arch logo) 84.248.91.111 (talk) 17:50, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

To answer my own question: Adding css attribute selectors with title attribute does the trick quite well. For example adding

a.extiw[title^='xyz:'] {

background: url(icon_to_external_wiki) centre right no-repeat;

padding-left: <size_of_icon>px;

}

to main.css of desired skin works well. 84.248.91.111 (talk) 21:12, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

changing background color of page tabs

The only parts still not colorized are table labels and the tabs for "Message," "Discussion," "Read," "View source," and "View history."

#p-caction will take care of the "More" tab - does anyone know what the other tabs are called?

thank you 79.143.111.185 (talk) 20:16, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

found it - sorry for spamming :)

.vectorTabs span a { background-color: #e6ffb4; }

#mw-head { background-color: #e6ffb4; } 79.143.111.185 (talk) 20:25, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Cannot afford expensive functions ??

I have trouble with so-called "expensive functions" "{ {#ifexist:} }" and "{ {PAGESINCATEGORY} }". https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit Is there a way to increase the limit (500) for a single page on a public wiki? Alternatively, is there a non-expensive or more efficient way (from LUA) to peek "ifexist" ? Can I maybe peek both "PAGESINCATEGORY" and "ifexist" with just 1 call instead of 2? Strange enough, after the limit of 500 is reached, the thing starts lying and returning "false" for all "ifexist" requests despite the page exists, and despite the link is blue, ie despite wiki DOES already have the needed information. How can I peek the information now? Taylor 49 (talk) 04:50, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Style of Infobox

Hello, here is the specs of my wiki :

• MediaWiki
• PHP
• Database
• URL : https://www.wikifield.fr

If you go on pages like https://www.wikifield.fr/wiki/Squirkiz or https://www.wikifield.fr/wiki/Aégis you will notice the infobox style is completly broken. Any guess on what I could have done wrong ? I'd like to have the same style as in regular wikipedia pages.

Also if you notice any bad practice on my wiki (Even though it is still a draft), I will be extremely thankful if you can share it with me :)

Thank you in advance for your help ! 45.62.52.42 (talk) 14:08, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Exactly which Wikipedia template pages did you copy your infobox templates from? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:55, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer,

It was the ones from the french wikipedia pages 45.62.52.42 (talk) 16:59, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Oooooh, so I should use the french MediaWiki:Common.css file !

Damn... I'm wondering if I should not go back to the basis. What are the usual tutorials used by beginners ? 45.62.52.42 (talk) 17:17, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

For infoboxes, it is Manual:Importing Wikipedia infoboxes tutorial. For the rest you would have to be more specific. There are many such as download, install, configure and Manual:FAQ#Installation and configuration etc. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 21:43, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Allowing for revisions to be deleted through the page deletion system

Has any of the people that are in charge of producing each version of MediaWiki ever considered creating an extension that allows administrators to select revisions to delete through the page deletion system? This idea would obviously be different from Manual:RevisionDelete which deletes revisions through the revision deletion system, as opposed to the page deletion system.

I remember having this idea for years, and yet I can remember how surprised I was to find that there was no extension to my knowledge that allowed for revisions to be deleted through the page deletion system. Since there are specific sites that disallow pages in specific namespaces to be restored once deleted, unless the said users are in specific user-groups that aren't available to the general community.

The said extension would be pretty much identical to Manual:Page restoration only the exact opposite. As it would be added to the page deletion system and would allow for revisions to be deleted, instead of revisions to be restored. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 07:53, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

What's wrong with deleting revisions from the history page? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:20, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

It's not possible to selectively delete revisions from the page history, because to delete revisions you have to delete the entire history, and then restore the revisions that you want to keep. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 23:46, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Feel free to poke at phab:T20493 Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:26, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Done. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 10:52, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

I need to create new users only for reading the pages. How I can do it?

Good morning,

I have installed MediaWiki on my computer and I am working for creating our Wiki (mediawiki-1.32.0).

I have created pages (in our Wiki) with the administrator user but I need to create new users only for reading the pages.

Please could you indicate to me how I can create these users? Thanks in advance.

Best regards.

89.167.129.74 (talk) 08:31, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

You can go to the Special:CreateAccount page (on your wiki) to create new accounts.

Read Manual:Preventing access for more configurations, but basically you want the "Simple private wiki" approach, and also "Restrict editing". Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:18, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder: Thanks so much for your reply! Thanks for your support with this topic. 89.167.129.74 (talk) 08:13, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

There is a number of ways to do this; I have made it work using statements like below (in localsettings.php.. please ask further if you need help!

## Group permissions

/** @cond file_level_code */

// Implicit group for all visitors

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read']   = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']   = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage']   = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createtalk']   = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi']   = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['viewmywatchlist']   = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editmywatchlist']   = true;

// Maybe?  

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['viewmyprivateinfo'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editmyprivateinfo']   = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editmyoptions']   = true;

....

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit']    = true;

// Implicit group for all logged-in accounts

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['move'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['move-subpages'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['move-rootuserpages'] = true; // can move root userpages

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['move-categorypages'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['movefile'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['read'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createtalk'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['writeapi'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['upload'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['reupload'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['reupload-shared'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['minoredit'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editmyusercss'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editmyuserjson'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editmyuserjs'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['purge'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['sendemail'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['applychangetags'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['changetags'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editcontentmodel'] = true;

... etc. and you can prevent people access to special pages like this..

function SpecialPageBlock(&$list)

{

   global $wgUser;

      

   $allowedGroups = array(

       'sysop',

   );

   

   $whiteList = array(

       'Confirmemail',

       'CreateAccount',

       'Userlogin',

       'Userlogout',

       'Search',

       'Preferences',

       'Changepassword',

   ); AssetDenmark (talk) 09:33, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

how do i create a document

how do i create a document. i am a new user Lspiresjr (talk) 13:36, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

By document do you mean a Wiki content page? See Help:Starting a new page. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 14:24, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Uploading/re-uploading bulk images and editing metadata.

Cache Control Headers

MediaWiki 1.31.0

PHP 7.0.24 (fpm-cgi)

MySQL 5.7.11-log

Lua 5.15

Varnish 3.0.06

For reasons we can't figure out, the response headers sent by our wiki includes this:

Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, s-maxage=0

That last one is a problem for us since Varnish sees s-maxage and refuses to do its job. This seems to have started some time after we upgraded from 1.26 to 1.31, or possibly from when we switched to our skin, Tweeki. It was suggested somewhere that that particular cache-control is set when $wgResourceLoaderDebug is set, but it is not set at all in our LocalSettings.

Is there anything else that might lead MediaWiki 1.31 to send that Cache-control header? An extension? Is there any way to change the cache-control headers? I did try $wgSquidMaxage but that does not seem to have any effect.

213.64.216.57 (talk) 16:55, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

So I sort of found the issue. I did a find and discovered that between 1.26 and 1.31, a file called HeaderCallback.php was added to the includes. That exact cache-control string is in there. I can use Varnish's VCL to get around it, but I wonder if there's any place to set desired cache control headers within Mediawiki itself? 213.64.216.57 (talk) 22:54, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

HeaderCallback.php is only sending Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, s-maxage=0 if there are cookies sent by the server. This absolutely makes sense since you don't want your users to get the same cookies, potentially leaking sessions

If the server doesn't send cookies, then the problem is somewhere else. If you're logged in, responses won't (and shouldn't) be cached by Varnish. Also, some extensions may force a page to not be cacheable. A debug log may tell you why. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:24, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

I was having this problem too and thanks to this post I figured out that the cause was the Extension:Antispam setting cookies for every page view. I sent this pull request to try fix it. Sophivorus (talk) 16:22, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Cannot hide site subtitle on (redirected or moved) Main Page

I followed Manual:Tagline (Site Subtitle) and added

body.page-Main_Page.action-view #siteSub, body.page-Main_Page.action-submit #siteSub { display: none; }

to my MediaWiki:Common.css

I cannot get the subtitle to only be hidden on the Main_Page, however. Note that my Main_Page is a redirect, e.g. #REDIRECT [[Other Page]]. Does that matter?

In case it does matter, I tried substituting Other_Page into the code to give

body.page-Other_Page.action-view #siteSub, body.page-Other_Page.action-submit #siteSub { display: none; }

and that does not work, either. I have been able to change the font size of my subtitle by editing the MediaWiki:Common.css file so I know that I'm doing this in the right place.

Am I missing something or can the subtitle simply not be hidden on a redirected Main_Page? When I force to go to the Main_Page, I can see that the subtitle is hidden there... while the subtitle is *not* hidden when I force to go to another page that is also only a redirect. So that may be my answer, but I'm hoping there is still another way to hide the subtitle on a redirected Main_Page, or that I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks!

131.215.220.162 (talk) 01:37, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Note that *moving* Main_Page to e.g. Other_Page also creates a situation where the the site subtitle cannot be hidden on Other_Page. Further, adding:

body.page-Other_Page.action-view #siteSub, body.page-Other_Page.action-submit #siteSub { display: none; }

to MediaWiki:Common.css still does not transfer the hidden quality to Other_Page.

It seems like there has to be a way to hide the site subtitle on one page but not others, regardless of whether or not the page with the hidden subtitle is Main_Page.

Does anyone know? Thanks. 2605:E000:1313:C19:FC01:92A4:5B21:C0D3 (talk) 03:06, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

If the font-size for the same class can be changed, then it could be just a CSS specificity issue. Try adding display: none !important; and see if it works. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Or just wait to the cache to be updated, and be sure you've not made a typo in the CSS rules.

As always, an URL to the problematic page would be very helpful. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:14, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

The "!important" addition did not help hide the subtitle on the page with parentheses in the title. So the parentheses do seem to be the problem. Not too much trouble to just work around that by changing the name, though.

And yes, I did clear the cache, which did not work for the parentheses page, but does of course help hide the subtitle on all other pages after implementing in CSS.

My apologies for not including the URL, the site is still being built and is password protected for the moment. Thanks to both of you for the help.! 131.215.51.215 (talk) 01:37, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Mediawiki commons - image upload issue

Help creation of a wiki portal for my website

Hello there !

I want to create a similar wiki page as -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Geography with my own contents in my wiki site(vanipedia.org). Can someone please help, what templates, codes and portals I need to create a similar page. Please help

My website is - http://www.vanipedia.org Anurag7029 (talk) 05:37, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

In the source of that Wikipedia page, the parts which are between double brackets, such as "Portal maintenance status", "portal description" etc. are called templates. A quick list of the included templates will be present under the "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page" collapsible header near the bottom of the page.

Go to each template page, such as Template:Portal maintenance status, Template:Portal description etc. and see which templates would be relevant to you.

Then go to Special:Export, include the names of the templates you want to export, check "Include templates", and then click on the Export button.

After this, import the exported .XML file into your own Wiki.

Do this and see which portions still give problems. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 07:47, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Change Reference

There is an old link (to an old version of our website) inside this URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trentino-Alto_Adige/S%C3%BCdtirol

The reference I want to change is:

Vibrations, Zeppelin Group – Good. "L'Istitut per la pension d'enjonta - Pensplan". Retrieved 8 April 2017.

I want to change this way:

Pensplan - the Regional Complementary Welfare Project. http://www.pensplan.com

How can I do?

Thanks 62.101.1.238 (talk) 13:24, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

See Special:MyLanguage/Help:Editing pages for how to edit pages in the MediaWiki software. Malyacko (talk) 07:44, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Mediawiki 1.32.0 very slow

How to see the address of a private wiki?

I installed MediaWiki on a private server (using XAMPP) but when I last cleared my browser history I unfortunately also removed all my bookmarks and I've lost the address to the private wiki I was using. Clearly, it still exists somewhere under http://localhost but I have no idea where. I've tried looking through the intact files (which I know where they are) but they don't give any clues as to the actual URL I have to put in to get to my wiki and neither does the XAMPP dashboard. Is there any way to find the address where the wiki is located (again, it's private so it should be localhost/something) or is it lost because I was stupid? Quanblas (talk) 16:16, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

See the configuration file of your web server software. The configuration file of your web server software defines where something on some hard disk (for example /var/www/html/mediawiki/) becomes accessible via a web browser (for example https://localhost/whatever). Malyacko (talk) 07:39, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Maybe it's using a different port number, so you should use http://localhost:81/ or similar. Try to find the port number in the XAMPP control panel Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:26, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Special:WhatLinksHere error

When I use 'Specific:WhatLinksHere' the following error will occur:

Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionError from line 1426 of ...includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php: MediaWiki::preOutputCommit: Commit failed on server(s) localhost: Cannot execute query from MediaWiki::preOutputCommit while transaction status is ERROR.

How can I fix this error? 51.77.152.216 (talk) 19:05, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Oh, I also have another problem.

When I install Extension:StructuredDiscussions and run update.php, the following error occurs:

Error from line 114 of .../Flow/maintenance/FlowFixLog.php: Call to a member function getRoot() on bool

Please help me solve these problems. 51.77.152.216 (talk) 23:09, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Please provide exact version information for MediaWiki and for the StructuredDiscussions extension.

Please see Manual:How to debug how to provide a stacktrace. Malyacko (talk) 07:37, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

WhatLinksHere problem solved.

My MediaWiki version is 1.32.0 and flow version is 1.1.1. Backtrace is like this:

#0 .../includes/utils/BatchRowUpdate.php(91): LogRowUpdateGenerator->update(stdClass)

#1 .../extensions/Flow/maintenance/FlowFixLog.php(55) : BatchRowUpdate->execute()

#2 .../maintenance/Maintenance.php(1698) : FlowFixLog->doDBUpdates()

#3 .../maintenance/update.php(215) : LoggedUpdateMaintenance->execute()

#4 .../maintenance/doMaintenance.php(94) : UpdateMediaWiki->execute()

#5 .../maintenance/update.php(248) : require_once(string)

#6 {main}

There are no additional errors on the Web. But I can't even see the StructuredDiscussions. 51.77.152.216 (talk) 07:57, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Please provide exact version information including the exact commit ID of "1.1.1". Malyacko (talk) 21:08, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

1.1.1 (bf651cf) 20190123 (Wednesday) 04:51 51.77.152.216 (talk) 15:50, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Migrate and update from 1.23.4 to 1.30.0

How to show dropdown dynamically from database in mediawiki?

I am using latest mediawiki(version - 1.32.0). My requirement is to show drop-down with dynamic value from database in form section with add and edit with form section.

I found some options related to SF Select with custom parser function to show dynamically values in drop-down, But I don't have any idea how to create,use and where custom parser functions. Shyamongraph (talk) 06:39, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Probably a question for a Semantic MediaWiki forum. You may want to explain what "dynamic" means and what exactly it's based on. For parser functions, see Help:Extension:ParserFunctions. Malyacko (talk) 07:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

I am working on mediawiki and created a form where I put some input fields. I have also added an dropdown field to show value fetching from database.

Want to fetch data from database and show in dropdown list. Shyamongraph (talk) 10:11, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

In my opinion you should try Semantic MediaWiki although it's not too straightforward and needs some learning before you'll be able to build fully functional site utilising its (i.e.: SMW) capabilities. Pawel Niemczuk (talk) 23:52, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

I have same problem. Not able to show data from database into dropdown list. 103.82.220.50 (talk) 10:55, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

wgCiteEnablePopups

Hello, I used the wgCiteEnablePopups option while using MediaWiki. But it didn't work at some point, and I found out that it was deleted. I Iike this option very much, so I want to use it again.

Please let me know how to use it again.

Notes: Don't ask me to use gadgets. I don't like it. 94.23.167.104 (talk) 08:07, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Add the following to your user script file: Special:Mypage/common.js (On your wiki)

mw.loader.load('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?modules=ext.gadget.Navigation_popups');

94rain ^Talk 14:29, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Could someone please make a template for me?

A portal question

Hello guys!

Have a question about portals. I created portal page. There are sections like "Selected article" and "Selected picture.

So, there are links "Suggest" and "Archive" in each section. I don't really need it. Is there any way to get rid of it?

Thank you for your help! Kattey (talk) 04:12, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

It can definitely be done, but how much complicated such would be, depends on the particular Templates and Modules being used. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 05:51, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

I'm having trouble find the "effects" for the wiki. The only one I know is <strong>, and that doesn't seem to be working.

So, I need every "effect" there is, because I want my writing to be, well, professional! 2605:A000:1407:20E3:2CBA:27F0:2588:5EFA (talk) 12:27, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Help:Formatting. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 13:06, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Help to debug JS on my site

i just got this system i can not get in to do set up

i just got this system i can not get in to do set up the no pass word does not wor and i dont speak spanish Johnh1967 (talk) 22:52, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Is this related to MediaWiki? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 01:50, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

There's a symbol I can't find an answer to in the math problem.

There's a math problem in the registration process. After the equal sign, there is a colon ":" I can't find any meaning for this in any math systems online except for ratios. Please, help so I can register for the user forum where I work.

Thanks

2603:3001:22C0:0:203D:7362:308B:24F9 (talk) 01:37, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Exactly which website is this related to? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 01:50, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Magic word for number of users

I've been trying to transclude the number of users using the magic word {{NUMBERINGROUP:groupname}} at Help:Magic words. However, no matter what I use, I always get 0 for users and autoconfirmed users.

For example,
{{NUMBERINGROUP:user}} -> 0
{{NUMBERINGROUP:users}} -> 0
{{NUMBERINGROUP:User}} -> 0

While I am aware that the autoconfirmed usergroup is not assignable, and the user usergroup is automatically given to any registered user, those groups still exist.

Am I missing something or is this just not possible? Thanks in advance. Leaderboard (talk) 09:28, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

I think i'm wrong, but it's not possible for "automatically given" groups. Someone need to confirm Tomybrz Bip Bip 12:03, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

For users,

{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}

18,104,107

I had no idea about autoconfirmed users... 94rain ^Talk 14:08, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Limit Thumbnail Generation [SOLVED]

My server is extremely limited in both disk space and memory. When looking into disk usage, I found that a majority of it was being consumed by /thumbs. I just needed the 280x210 thumbnails for galleries but many other sizes were being generated.

My first solution was to set $wgImageLimits and $wgThumbLimits to 280x210. This stopped generation of file page previews but three gallery thumbnails were still being generated: 280px, 420px and 560px. So I set $wgThumbnailScriptPath. Now only the 280px thumbnails are being generated but my server quickly caps out on process usage and every other thumbnail is broken on page load. So I disabled $wgThumbnailScriptPath.

Is there any way I can generate just the 280x210 thumbnails without enabling $wgThumbnailScriptPath? If I could change the file history thumbnails from 120px to 280px that would also be good. Here are my relevant configuration options:

# Default gallery options

$wgGalleryOptions = [

'imagesPerRow' => 0,

'imageWidth' => 280,

'imageHeight' => 210,

'captionLength' => true,

'showBytes' => true,

'mode' => 'traditional',

];

# Thumbnail settings

$wgImageLimits = array( array( 280, 210 ) );

$wgThumbLimits = array( 210 );

$wgDefaultUserOptions['thumbsize'] = 0;

$wgDefaultUserOptions['imagesize'] = 0;

$wgUseImageResize = true;

$wgUseImageMagick = false;

# $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = '/usr/bin/convert';

# $wgThumbnailScriptPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/thumb.php";

# Upload settings

$wgFileExtensions = array('png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg');

$wgMaxShellTime = 0;

$wgMaxShellMemory = 0; PukupukuDragon (talk) 18:56, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Turns out there was a thumbnailing option I overlooked: $wgResponsiveImages. This is responsible for creating the additional thumbnails that are 50% and 100% larger than the default size. Setting this to false should fix the issue. PukupukuDragon (talk) 00:42, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Files don't all transfer

I don't remember this problem from the last time I upgraded: using ftp, 180 files failed to transfer. I tried again, and 273 files failed to transfer! Without them all transferring from my computer to the website, I shouldn't expect a very stable wiki, should I?

What was even more weird was that dozens of times the upload was delayed while Filezilla asked me if I wanted to overwrite a newer file with an older file. How is that possible when I am transferring the unzipped files into an empty folder?!!! 71.7.53.76 (talk) 21:02, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to the support desk for the MediaWiki software. What does your question have to do with the MediaWiki software? Malyacko (talk) 14:58, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

My two questions, stated another way: (1) Is it normal part of uploading mediawiki upgrade files that not all of them successfully transfer through ftp - should I not worry about it, and expect the wiki to work anyway? (2) How can it be that while transferring extracted files from my computer to the website, that an older file would try to overwrite a newer file (identical in name and size)? Do wikimedia files have twin files in the same directory with the same name and same size, but one older than the other? I don't know how that is even possible and I don't know how to respond, or if I should somehow not worry about it.

2604:2D80:4038:906A:B59F:4E79:513D:5173 (talk) 18:56, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

No, all files will need to be transferred successfully. This is much more a problem with the particular FTP client than MediaWiki.

Also you should try uploading the compressed archive file and then extract that in the server. Uploading hundreds of files through FTP can be unreliable. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 19:34, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll try that. 2604:2D80:4038:906A:B59F:4E79:513D:5173 (talk) 21:21, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Using js event listener and setTimeout in an extension

Passwords forgotten

Really sorry to bother you. I have just bought a new computer and downloaded Filezilla in order to update two websites I run. However I cannot recall the passwords for the two sites and cant find a 'forgot password' option. Ther two sites are UAJCA and Oakworth Cricket Club Can you recall the passworsd for me please?

many thanks 86.157.142.100 (talk) 08:12, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Apologies, but wrong support forum.😕 AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 09:03, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Some page_title entries in database have space instead of underscore. How to fix?

Two Column Table

How to translate the content of a wiki

mediawiki 1.31; php 7.1

i am running a mediawiki in German and would like to transfer the entire content into English. How is that possible? 95.91.246.157 (talk) 13:23, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Original language is in german language? New versions MediaWiki has special page Special:PageLanguage which may do switch original language of page to another. Want (talk) 13:39, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Ohh this is killing me, I have a wiki in Danish and I need to guess what "Special:PageLanguage" translates into. ;-)

Anyway there is a translation package, that may help out here. However it requires some PHP add in, that I am not allowed to activate at my local host. AssetDenmark (talk) 09:44, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

i want to translate the content into english permanently, since we move on to a international team 95.91.246.157 (talk) 13:42, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

I recommend for it:

1. change source language from german to english
2. for old pages set source language to german
3. hire a professional translator for translation this pages.

And new pages write only a english. Want (talk) 14:18, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

great thanks!

I would never have guessed!

will recommend this place, awesome! 95.91.246.157 (talk) 18:37, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

take a look at this Help:Extension:Translate AssetDenmark (talk) 09:47, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Extension:UploadWizard no longer provides suggestions for the Categories field

After updating from MediaWiki version 1.31.1 Extension:UploadWizard no longer provides suggestions for the Categories field when uploading files. This feature was previously available and seems to either be malfunctioning or has been removed. Is there any way I can restore this functionality?

MediaWiki version 1.32.1

PHP 7.2.17 (fpm-fcgi)

MariaDB 10.1.38-MariaDB

https://blazblue.wiki/wiki/Special:Version

Issue can be recreated here (account registration required):

https://blazblue.wiki/wiki/Special:UploadWizard Jdesu (talk) 21:32, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Deleting multiple users

I'd like to be able to delete nearly every user on my wiki - probably "every user which has never made an edit" - or "every user who has only edited his own user page".

Is there an extension that could do this? Or a tried-and-tested SQL query?

Thanks in anticipation. Jonathan3 (talk) 22:33, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

The most appropriate way to achieve something similar is by way of Extension:UserMerge. The more customized solutions, either don't exist or are likely to be very unreliable. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 01:39, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. That extension doesn't look useful for removing (or merging) hundreds of users. Its page has a link to Extension:BlockAndNuke but that's not maintained and from the talk page looks not to be working with the latest MW version. Jonathan3 (talk) 22:35, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Back to SQL, do you think the following would work? The intention would be to delete every user from the user table who has never made a revision which appears in the revision table.

DELETE 
FROM wm_user 
WHERE user_id NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT rev_user FROM wm_revision)

There are no pages in the User or User Talk namespaces to worry about having to delete. Jonathan3 (talk) 22:40, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

@Samwilson I saw you reply to another message about users, and wondered if you would be able to help with my (SQL) query above. Thanks in anticipation. Jonathan3 (talk) 00:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

I'd recommend against trying to do this directly with SQL. It's really likely to be a headache.

I suspect that getting the BlockAndNuke extension up to date would be easier, and result in a more reliable solution that's more usable by more people. :)

(I might have a look at it this weekend...) Sam Wilson 00:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

>> every user which has never made an edit

Well, this is simple. Just run the maintenance script 'RemoveUnusedAccounts.php' - Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php Deimos (talk) 13:52, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I'll look into it as soon as I get a chance! Because of the settings on my wiki, the spam accounts get created but don't edit pages, so this looks like the right solution for me. Jonathan3 (talk) 22:20, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

i know zombie thread and stuff. I ran the removeUnusedAccounts.php and found and removed over 88k users. (got a massive spam attack and have since added captcha)

when i go onto mu wikipage and view user lists it still hows 1000s of users that need to be removed. is there another option for getting rid of them? as a bonus if you can remove pages that they made under the talk option. Meanderpaul (talk) 15:52, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

How to add title, summary, license etc when uploading image

I am using python script to upload an image. Below is a sample code I use to upload an image, but what is the correct syntax to provide license, title and summary fields in the  variable "text":"Text on the File: page... description, license, etc." so will be it be "text":"my dummy title, my dummy description, {{CC-0}}.",

PARAMS_4 = {

   "action": "upload",

    "filename": "images/GN07551.jpg",

    "comment":"<MY UPLOAD COMMENT>",

    "text":"my dummy title, my dummy description, {{CC-0}}",

    "format": "json",

    "token": CSRF_TOKEN,

    "ignorewarnings": 1

}

FILE = {'file':('images/GN07551.jpg', open(FILE_PATH, 'rb'), 'multipart/form-data')}

R = S.post(URL, files=FILE, data=PARAMS_4)

DATA = R.json()

print(DATA)

Any help would be appreciated. thanks Htsabot (talk) 04:50, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

@Htsabot (wrong) / @Htsa: What is a "title"? Where to see a specific example for a "title" in a link that you can provide?

/If/ you follow API:Upload (do not know, as you do not tell anybody where you code comes from), maybe also ask how to set the file license on the corresponding talk page there?

Also, please do not manually add or edit with the bot account "Htsabot", like you just did here. This was already requested on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Requests. Malyacko (talk) 08:22, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

@Malyacko Sorry I am newbie - I won't edit bot account again.

Sorry again for the confusion regarding title. As you may know I am using bot to upload bulk images. I tried to upload an image and it worked but it was deleted by an admin as it lacked proper source and license. I want to upload the images with summary, date, source, author and license (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/). How can i include these fields at the time of upload? Htsa (talk) 04:37, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

You should add this information to the text parameter, see API:Upload Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:26, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Uploading Images Internal Server Error

Import did not create categories...

I am trying to export/import pages - from a local wiki to a new one, but I have a few issues. ( This apparently requires me to enter an "Interwiki prefix" - for this I used the name of the target wiki). The language for the wiki is Danish, but my profile is set to English.

At first sight import looks like a success, however when i check page with categories the link works but the category pages does not refer to the pages and contains this text: "This category currently contains no pages or media."

When I go to the specialpage:categories I get this message:

[XL7T4zh62JutCTuDi5sqqwAAAIA] 2019-04-23 08:59:15: Fatal exception of type "Error"

also most pages have been put into a the category for missing files, but this category also do not contain any page references.

Even if I go to the edit and save a page, the category is not updated!

(Target is 1.32.0 and source is 1.18 ) AssetDenmark (talk) 09:15, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

I tried to restore my new wiki to a state before I even had the most basic extensions added , and the results are the same!

My next attempt must be to remove categories from the import... and import these prior to the other pages!

AssetDenmark (talk) 08:19, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Doing this does not work either. New errors occurs...

The categories appear to import correctly, but importing the main data - or a "big" namespace - results in "No interwiki prefix was supplied" even though the interwiki prefix was supplied! - this seems to occur now (and not before), because I included the entire history in the 2nd files I exported!

AssetDenmark (talk) 09:49, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Maybe the category pages haven't populated yet. See runJobs.php.

Regarding the fatal exception, to get a more detailed error description, in your LocalSettings.php, add the following:

$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;
$wgDevelopmentWarnings = true; error_reporting( -1 ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL);

AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 09:32, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips! Re the fatal error This was going wrong:

[XL7gZQyBgBlOyCfL6kZ4kQAAAA8] /Speciel:Kategorier Error from line 415 of /home/n117056/public_html/extensions/TinyMCE/TinyMCE.hooks.php: Call to undefined method TitleValue::getArticleID()

so I can disable TinyMCE (editor extension) and then I can see the categories... the getArticleID function may work when the categories are updated. ( I wound NEVER have found this without your help!)

I set

$wgJobRunRat = 0.01;

...but I can I somehow trigger the jobs run? ( I do not have PHP access, but I know there is a way to run the update scripts. Or is there something in an error log i need to check? AssetDenmark (talk) 10:03, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

The Extension:TinyMCE problem could be because the extension on your setup has not been updated.

For running maintenance scripts without PHP access, try Extension:Maintenance. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 11:47, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

I wonder if, i used $wgExportFromNamespaces = true; and "from" this got the option to select the namespace "categories" - now I wonder if the categories was somehow has invalidated by this? (Or can someone perhaps exclude that as what cause the error?) AssetDenmark (talk) 10:39, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Suleimanjama

Unable to edit Exampedia page

I am attempting to make edits to this page: https://exampedia.org/wiki/CIC_Certification.

I created a login for MediaWiki but when I attempt to use this same login on Exampedia, I receive an error message that my username does not exist. I was under the impression that MediaWiki accounts could also edit Exampedia pages.

Can anyone assist?

Thanks! CBICStaff (talk) 13:56, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

If by "MediaWiki accounts" you meant "accounts on MediaWiki.org", then your impression is wrong. Malyacko (talk) 14:25, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Translator hub

Lately I see, querying about translations and best practices what use here, and any specialized page for translators was not here. For it, I created a page Translator hub (draft).

Because I translate primarily from English, but not into English, do anybody check this page, please? Thank you. Want (talk) 15:22, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

It seems helpful. I suggest that we can also have a babel list (Languages spoken) for local sysops and translationadmins. (like m:Stewards#List_of_current_stewards)

So that newcomers may turn to admins for help in their native language. 94rain ^Talk 15:35, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

I looked into the code of this page and it is horrible solution – template with static table which is manually filled. Best is use template and Extension:Page Forms, but this extension is not used here (it may do query for data from templates).

By my mind, better is directly contact between translators over talk pages, because cooperation on prepare of pages is not limited by translator or translator admin native language. And anonymous user may translate too. Want (talk) 16:40, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

DNA data gone

The supplied credentials are not associated with any user on this wiki.

Hi,

I've done the configuration as per the online documentation, but I'm getting the following error "The supplied credentials are not associated with any user on this wiki." after I login to google. Does anyone have any idea what is the issue?

Really appreciate if anyone can help. I'm currently running MediaWiki 1.31.0 and the latest stable mediawiki 1.32.

115.66.216.75 (talk) 07:58, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Which exact online documentation? How is some Google login related to MediaWiki? Malyacko (talk) 08:24, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Image not centered and text not displayed in box

The image is here

This is how I expect it to be displayed, the same wikicode in another wiki:

Do you know why it is displayed differently?

For version info see my wiki's version page

Thanks! Robertinventor (talk) 10:45, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Because Encyclopedia of Buddhism use on page centered div as default for all pages. Want (talk) 11:05, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

I don't think that's it. The same image can be put left or right just by changing the wiki markup. But this doesn't work in the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Also it's not just the placing it's also the frame around it which separates the image from the rest of the page.

I've put the same code here in mediawiki and added a left image below it as well a a right image:

User:Robertinventor

And the same wikicode in my Encyclopedia of Astrobiology here: Robertinventor (talk) 15:50, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

May be is overrided CSS attribute for it. Want (talk) 17:12, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Ah sorted. It's because I'm using the "Foreground" skin, seems there is something in its css changes the styling of image placement and captions, did a preview in Vector and it looks as expected. Also in Metrolook. Robertinventor (talk) 18:18, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Import bug reporting

How/where do I report a bug in the export/Import function?

As described (Project:Support desk/Flow/2019/04#h-Import_did_not_create_categories...-2019-04-23T09:15:00.000Z ) I am having serious problems when importing pages that contains category references. That is the categories are not updated/maintained - I tried to create a category prior to the import. From this there are these symptoms:

• The pre-created category is populated only with new pages.
• New Categories are created (when I import pages containing categories), they are blank but can be updated.
• Imported pages can not be categorized, placing them in the existing/new or imported categories does not work... !
• (There seems to be a short delay on the registration - indicating that the job queue is actually running?)

(...can I otherwise verify that the job queue is running? Is that shown on some of the special pages or in a log?)

Please help - since this is a new/blank Wiki I can open this up to anyone that may want to try to import/test their own pages. Once the bug has been found I will start over..

AssetDenmark (talk) 11:59, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

See "Report wrong software behavior or a feature proposal" on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki linking to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_report_a_bug AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:05, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

All bug reports should be made in phabricator with an accurate reproduction scenario.

To correct, you can run the script Manual:Rebuildall.php to force an update of all the indexes. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:22, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I do not have access to run PHP from a command line, so I did try to reinstall/update using the /mw-config/ option, but that did not rebuild the indexes. Is there any other ways to this, or do I need to move to a server/host that will allow me to run PHP? (I have a few other reasons to do so, but I have some 400 wiki pages and those was what I would really want to work with ... :-O )

Is there no other ways to run the rebuild the indexes (and to do other maintenance jobs without PHP comandline?)... AssetDenmark (talk) 17:40, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

I just - to make sure that this was not an issue between MediaWikis - tried to export from https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export and then import to my Wiki. This gave the same result: http://www.medomtanke.dk/Mac_OS and this is how the category looks http://www.medomtanke.dk/Kategori:1984_software (after I have edited the category page... )

AssetDenmark (talk) 18:08, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Export/Import Wiki Content from a cloud hosted Media Wiki to and OnPrem one

Hi we have a media wiki hosted by a cloud provider and I need to move the content to a new one I have setup on our local network. I have tried the export and import but am confused by the Interwiki prefix error. What do I need to enter into the field ?

Also is there any way of exporting the user accounts to the new wiki?

Thanks in advance Megacubic (talk) 14:19, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Megacubic sorry for messing with your original questions. But I think you can use MySQL for this.

If you follow my instructions you get a complete copy of your wiki.

AssetDenmark (talk) 07:35, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

As far as I have found there is "only" these: Extension:UserExport / Extension:ImportUsers- this will export in .CSV format.

However it looks like you will be allowed to see the passwords, and that may giver some issues... depending on your users views/needs for privacy... if this is at all an possible problem you should perhaps prompt the users to create new logins. (Some GDPR issues may pop up?)

I do not know if you can make/reserve the usernames with random passwords, then mail them.. and ask/force them to change the password! (also, perhaps take a look at this: Wikimedia Security Team/Password strengthening 2019 ) AssetDenmark (talk) 19:31, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Can't you take a dump of the database (mysql) and import it to the new server? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:16, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks - That is what I would try next, only I do not know if that will work goring from 1.18 to 1.32 - has the tables changed and do I finally need to run some PHP (that I do not have access to.. ) .

Also I would think that I am not the only one that will have this, very basic, problem.. (sorry this was about the users, my current problem is regarding the export/import that is apparently not working for categories)... AssetDenmark (talk) 10:14, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Exporting the contents of the database isn't a problem if you upgrade, because after importing the contents of the database you'll do an upgrade (if you also copy the LocalSettings.php file with required modifications like database and paths).

See Manual:Moving a wiki for explanations and alternatives. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:15, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I am not sure if the "upgrade" will do all what I need as I try to import the 1.18 MySQL tables, into the 1.32 tables. - I may have to run the rebuildall.php, but I do not have the PHP command line probably also because I have no access to PHP command line at the host I chose.

I Looks like I managed to get this done in few simple steps.... I will naturally first need to test if everything is working.... and the I will post at the Manual:Moving a wiki page. ;-)

I must admit that I find the move/upgrade as the most difficult task here, to many alternatives/options/choices with unknown consequences.. and I have to learn a lot of different tools, only to find that they are not fit or not needed. The entire process could be much more easy, if not automated.

But there are also a lot of stuff that can go wrong, say I have the 1.18 in utf-8 (on an W7 laptop), while the hosted Installatron installed 1,32 in binary... and it seems like there are 'more' tables in 1.32. -only time will tell if I need the data in these tables and if I then somehow need to convert the missing data to utf-8.

The "easy" way would be to mirror the 1.18 and upgrade it on the laptop, but can that be done in one take, will installing the latest PHP/MySQL version invalidate the laptop... that is slowly dying.

AssetDenmark (talk) 13:19, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

The idea of moving a wiki is not import 1.18 data in 1.32 tables, but to copy the 1.18 tables to a new database on the new hosting, leaving it the same as 1.18. Then run update.php to upgrade the 1.18 schema to 1.32 (or the version you're using on the new host), giving the correct database credentials in LocalSettings.php Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:09, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

I did that - on a Installatron supported host - and it seems to work OK, only i wonder if there are some MySQL data that was lost.. I does not look like things are missing,but I wound not know that until I hit something that is affected.. this requires that you have a little bit of understanding on MySQL, tables, their naming and the different users/passwords...

In my case the host has cPanel/Installatron support... to make this work with the backup features you must first install a "blank" Wiki, inspect how Installatron refers to the MySQL tables, as you need to change this setup (both regarding database name and db-prefix. I do not have the option to run update.php - but i did run mw-config and after that I used a cPanel function to upgrade 1.32 to 1.32, I don't really know what effect that has!?

This is what I did:

* I create a new table, in phpMyAdmin (the user/password is the one that you use in Installatron)

* Create a New Wiki and I Export the MySQL tables, New Wiki to a file (inspect this installation, and try to match this database/prefix to that of the original table. Parameters can be seen in localsettings.PHP)

* I changed the table name and prefix of tables, by edit of the file exported file - to match the final result

* I load the new version of New Wiki tables

* I then Export the data from the Old Wiki... and

* Again, I changed the table name and prefix of tables, to match the final result

* I Load the Old Wiki data - it will drop all existing tables and keeps those that are new between versions

* I run mw-config - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Config_script

* and I update the localsettings.PHP to match the final results (the users/passwords are preserved, but the pw for the tables are that that was set in step one!)

* Finally I used the edit function of (<your web path to:>'/installatron/index.cgi#/installs' to match the new parameters for the MySQL tables....

Doing this I managed to move a 1.18 Wiki to 1.32... the two final steps would be:

* Upload all files in the /images folder as-is, these will work fine as they are registered in the MySQL.

* Install all extensions that was (and are to be) in use in your Old Wiki...

The only thing that I think may go really wrong, would be that I needed this CHARSET=utf8; and not CHARSET=binary; - where binary seems to be the default (or perhaps a "wrong choice" made when I used Installatron to set up the new Wiki...) - I needed this to support Scandinavian languages, and I don't know if binary is a better or worse solution. AssetDenmark (talk) 10:04, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Note that the installer no longer gives the option to choose a utf8 charset (binary will be the default). See phab:T196092. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 14:38, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks @Ciencia Al Poder - that would be a bit of a problem, along the way? I imagine that I should convert the tables asap, perhaps there is some SQL option that will tell that all input is utf8, but the new table is to be loaded using binary... I can however find a bunch of ways to convert from binary to utf8, not the other way! AssetDenmark (talk) 06:51, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

utf8 will still be supported, but maybe in the future the collation must be changed manually.

See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10949959/how-to-change-or-conversion-utf8-general-ci-to-binary-in-mysql Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:30, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks again - I must take a look into this, (just a bit later as I have some 400 pages I need to reorganize, that was the initial task I was to take on)..

And as you can see, I found that I had added a brand new namespace - but when doing that I an old namespace to that, thus the old-namespace came up twice and the links was not working.

@Ciencia Al PoderYour help is much appreciated - and I hope I will eventually be able to provide some help back to the community ... Now I can finally get to work! ;-)

AssetDenmark (talk) 10:48, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! AssetDenmark (talk) 09:46, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Interwiki and Import?

Can someone explain why I need the "interwiki prefix" when I import pages from an other wiki. Say I have "Wiki One"and I now want to export pages from this and import them to "Wiki Two". I do not want any reference to "Wiki One" from "Wiki Two"... so why do I need to give provide the interwiki prefix?

( I understand that interwiki is a way for us to point to an other wiki, say Mediawiki:Project:Support desk (that clearly did not work as I expected... :-/ ) - but i don't understand why "Wiki Two" is not the default value when I import pages... ??)

AssetDenmark (talk) 18:28, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Search backend error during full_text search- Elastic Search Error

2019-04-24 18:31:05 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during near_match search for 'and' after 31: index_not_found_exception: no such index [DFI_WIKI_132_SBX_content]

2019-04-24 18:31:05 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during full_text search for 'and' after 3: parsing_exception: [query_string] query does not support [auto_generate_phrase_queries]

2019-04-24 18:31:58 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during prefix search for 'and' after 18: index_not_found_exception: no such index [DFI_WIKI_132_SBX_content]

2019-04-24 18:32:00 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during prefix search for '"' after 9: index_not_found_exception: no such index [DFI_WIKI_132_SBX_content]

2019-04-24 18:32:01 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during prefix search for '""' after 18: index_not_found_exception: no such index [DFI_WIKI_132_SBX_content]

2019-04-24 18:32:03 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during prefix search for '"s"' after 13: index_not_found_exception: no such index [DFI_WIKI_132_SBX_content]

2019-04-24 18:32:03 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during prefix search for '"sd"' after 33: index_not_found_exception: no such index [DFI_WIKI_132_SBX_content]

2019-04-24 18:32:03 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during prefix search for '"sdf"' after 15: index_not_found_exception: no such index [DFI_WIKI_132_SBX_content]

2019-04-24 18:32:04 VP-171885 DFI_WIKI_132_SBX: Search backend error during full_text search for '"sdf"' after 18: parsing_exception: [query_string] query does not support [auto_generate_phrase_queries]

This is the error I am getting while searching after installing Elastic Search.

Above is the full detail of error. Please help to solve the problem. Saddamarunachal123 (talk) 18:41, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

See the README file for installation instructions. You need to run some maintenance scripts to create the indices. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:22, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Short URL not working

Good day,

Summary: I've followed all the steps outlined in the manual, but the Short URL isn't working - I receive a 403 error. Without short URLs, the site works fine.

Setup: Apache web server, website root = /var/www/html/w

Details:

In the LocalSettings.php file, I've added the below lines under the $wgSitename.

$wgScriptPath = "/w";

$wgScriptExtension = ".php";

$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

$wgUsePathInfo = false;

In the httpd.conf file, I've added the below lines.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^/?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]

For the /var/www and /var/www/html directories, I've ensured the below options are in place:

<Directory /var/www...>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride none

Require all granted

</Directory>

So, after all that I get a 403 error. When I check the server logs, it tells me there's a AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/wiki.

What's strange is, I don't have a wiki folder anywhere.

Any assistance would be much appreciated, thanks! 2600:1003:B026:7701:4587:529B:1E8:BA1 (talk) 22:31, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Also, I've restarted Apache a few times just to be sure it wasn't a caching issue or something, but it didn't make a difference. 2600:1003:B026:7701:4587:529B:1E8:BA1 (talk) 22:36, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Always show referrering URLs when clicking out from https mediawiki site

New line character in scribunto/lua regular expression?

{{#invoke:String|replace
|source  = INPUTTEXT
|pattern = (.*)NEWLINESYMBOL
|replace = %1
}}

font size

I would like to change the font size for my wikipedia pages, it is too small for reading! Could someone please help me with that? Thanks! Zyiyu (talk) 01:45, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Zoom in (Ctrl++) the page.

Or include personal CSS rules for increasing the font size. Either include those rules in the page User:Zyiyu/Vector.css or use browser extensions such as Stylus (Chrome, Firefox) for this. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 04:55, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

bookmark wikipedia article

Is it possible to bookmark an article so that I could later find it very easily? I know there is a feature called "watch", but that is not for bookmarking. Thanks! Zyiyu (talk) 01:47, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Watched pages are listed at Special:EditWatchlist, which can in a way be used as a bookmarks page. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 04:41, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Error creating thumbnail: convert: no images defined

I have installed "ImageMagick" to create thumbnails for svg files; however after uploading the files I have got this error message:

"Error creating thumbnail: convert: no images defined `PNG:/tmp/transform_cf80d78c6fa6.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3300."

What should I do to fix it?

Thanks!

Attached extracted Localsetting.php:

$wgEnableUploads = true;
$wgSVGConverter = 'ImageMagick';
$wgUseImageMagick = false;
$wgUseImageResize = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";
$wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp";
$wgAllowTitlesInSVG = true;

Eagle (talk) 07:08, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Successul upload

Hello,

I changed something and I know longer get a notification of the number of successful uploads. Please advie so that i can restore this extremely useful function. 82.29.138.141 (talk) 09:13, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Notification where? After which exact steps? On which website? Malyacko (talk) 14:09, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Audubon Quartet

Dear Support team, I was a founding member of the Audubon Quartet in 1974 and served as its only cellist until the end of the career. Since there are so much misleading information on the Internet these days, I have decided to build a new Website and I just launched the home page today.

I used to have a Mediawiki account, but can no longer get in to correct the link to the new Audubon Quartet Website. PLEASE HELP. I would like to edit information existing on Mediawiki in regard to the Audubon Quartet, but a good start is to direct visitors to the new Audubon Quartet Website. That new link should be: audubonquartet.com

The email to use is: audubonquartet@gmail.com

Thank You 2601:5CE:4001:C816:5D47:D286:BEDD:FDD6 (talk) 12:09, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Could you tell me where the link is? 94rain ^Talk 12:21, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Pending changes

I would like to know two things: a) how to enable pending changes, and b) set it so that edits from unconfirmed users are automatically bound by them. Launchballer (talk) 16:21, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Extension:FlaggedRevs and Extension:Moderation are the extensions for this purpose. See which one suits your needs better (What's the difference from FlaggedRevs or Approved Revs?). AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 17:56, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Change styling

hi together,

I'd love to change the styling. In which directory are the central CSS files located?

Especially I would enlarge the left column of the wiki to have more space for the logo.

Can someone give me a hint? 2003:DE:AF23:6100:7162:44F6:AE0F:1202 (talk) 06:33, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

DO not edit CSS files directly!

Instead, use the wiki page MediaWiki:Common.css in your wiki to do the adjustments you want! 2001:16B8:10D3:7C00:998B:E0A5:AC17:A9CC (talk) 06:57, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

How do I access this page?

2003:DE:AF23:6100:7162:44F6:AE0F:1202 (talk) 07:07, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Just like your site has a Main_Page, there is also a MediaWiki:Common.css page. Access it the same way you access your site's main page. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 07:53, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

uploading XML and TXT file

Is it possible to upload XML and txt file in mediawiki?

The permitted file extension only are:

png, gif, jpg, jpeg, doc, xls, mpp, pdf, ppt, tiff, bmp, docx, xlsx, pptx, ps, psd, swf, fla, mp3, mp4, m4v, mov, avi. 180.183.130.173 (talk) 11:10, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Manual:Configuring file uploads#Configuring file types. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 14:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi AhmadF, thanks for the link you provided. Unfortunately I cannot find this settings in our Wiki site. Do you have the exact path where to go in this settings to change the LocalSetings.php ?

Thank you! 180.183.130.173 (talk) 08:46, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

@AhmadF.Cheema 180.183.130.173 (talk) 08:46, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

If this setting is not in LocalSettings.php, you should add it to that file (usually at the end of the file) Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:12, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Ciencia Al Poder What I mean is How can I locate this LocalSettings.php in our Wiki page? 180.183.130.173 (talk) 09:23, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

This is not a wiki page, but a file on the server. You need access to the server (via ssh, ftp...) to edit that file. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Confusing mis-credit in page history

I was puzzled to receive a welcome message on the Telugu wiki, which I have never edited. Looking at my contribs there, it appears that I created the page te:సహాయం:Magic words, which I have no recollection of doing. Looking at that page's history, I think that what happened was te:వాడుకరి:Arjunaraoc "imported" the page from en:Help:Magic words, to which I was the last to make a (minor; +4 byte) edit.

I don't think the page history should appear as though I created the page on 2019-03-27, with a delta of +26303 bytes (the total page size), and a null edit on 2019-04-25 by the user who imported it. The whole history should be one +26303 byte edit by the importing user on 2019-04-25. Or am I missing something? (ed.) —[AlanM1(talk)]— 12:24, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Upload files by ftp..

Hi, I tried to upgrade my wiki from 1.19 to newest one and this shows me always error500 so I decide that ill make new website then migrate all my data.

Unfortunately not everything works perfect.

My biggest problem for now is that all my files uploaded to images folder via FTP aren't showing in /index.php?title=Specjalna:Pliki

Anyone knows how to resolve it?? 37.131.162.2 (talk) 13:07, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Images wouldn't show up when uploaded directly to the server through FTP. For bulk upload of images, see Category:Bulk upload. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 14:56, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

MHS-3.5 inch lcd screen problems with hdmi

hi guys.

I am trying to connect a raspberry pi 3B+ with your lcd screen (3.5 inch mhs version).

I tried downloading your kali drivers and then installing them.

They worked fine with the screen no problems.

I even managed to calibrate touch screen which was nice.

Here's the problem.

Every time I try to switch back to hdmi, it does not boot up and i have to re-install the operating system on the SD card all over again!

Any idea who I can contact?

I have tried this multiple times.

the kali linux drivers provided are SO BAD and need updates.

You can't even use HDMI how crappy is that?

Can someone please help me out here before I start regretting this purchase? 203.221.194.175 (talk) 15:48, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Is this question related to MediaWiki? I suggest you better find a forum about that instead. 94rain ^Talk 15:51, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Copywrite

Can I use images from here without copyright issues? 94.117.28.45 (talk) 17:21, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

All image pages have the specific licence requirements mentioned on them. Usually they're free to use. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 19:11, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

The Obligatory Pilgrimage by C.V.K. Maithreya not working

Username

Internal Error for Unknown Reason

Using 1.32.0, my site was working a month again as intended, and then suddenly last week, one of my site pages began responding with an Internal Error. I have restored various backups of the site, and even entirely deleted it and restored from another backup, but nothing is working.

The error reads as follows and results in a blank MediaWiki-style page below the error:

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

action:featuredfeed, feed:featured not working.

feed: featured gives me error every time. Anyone else having trouble? 71.187.203.201 (talk) 23:37, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi. Impossible to say without any steps to reproduce or information where to enter/click/write/do/whatever "feed:featured"... Malyacko (talk) 12:47, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Docs

Delete wiki

Hi. How I can delete all wiki with all pages? Asketoff (talk) 13:02, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Manual:Uninstallation Malyacko (talk) 13:28, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

If you want to keep the wiki installed, would Extension:Nuke be what you need? I've not used it but it looks like what you want - "The Nuke extension makes it possible for sysops to mass delete pages." Jonathan3 (talk) 23:45, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Skin with AdWords

I want a skin with good support of placing AdWords ads. I prefer if it would look similar to Wikipedia, but that's not very important.

Ideally need both desktop and mobile skins.

Can you point where to download such a skin? VictorPorton (talk) 13:40, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:All skins Malyacko (talk) 18:00, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

How to import template:infobox person

Good day!

I try to import infobox person template from wikipedia.

I expect to get something like this.

But I get only that. )))

There is another problem. I want to use my own lunguage in in infobox, for example not "Nationality" but "Национальность". So how can I do it? :)

Thank you for your attention! Kattey (talk) 07:55, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

This template uses Lua modules, which is supported by Extension:Scribunto.

You need to install this extension and also import those modules this template uses in Wikipedia. (See the documentation of the Template) 94rain ^Talk 08:04, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Duplicat namespace

Visual editor upload on mediawiki pool

Hi,

I've 2 wiki including one pool wiki for medias.

On my non-pool wiki, when I upload media with special page, i'm redirecting on my pool wiki it's ok, with visual editor I can search medias on my pool wiki with the api but when i want to upload media with visual editor extension the media stay on thsi wiki.

I did not find a parameter that fixes that. Jtuli (talk) 13:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Add code after third h2 headline

I would like to add code automatically after the third ==Headline== in all my articles. To be precise: I want to link to my online quiz within the content area of my articles.

Does anyone have an idea how to do this? Any hook, template, parser hack, whatever...? Stefahn (talk) 14:16, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Maybe you could use jQuery? https://api.jquery.com/after/ Jonathan3 (talk) 00:57, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I should be able to solve this with jQuery, thanks! Stefahn (talk) 14:58, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

i am getting an application that wont open and i have had it for years, this started after i did a recovery on my pc. the progtram is Automouser v5.1

it is saying its a faulting application error. Can anyone help me to get this to work again. 65.128.160.226 (talk) 15:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Wrong support forum.😕 AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:35, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Neu erstellte Seite wurde gelöscht - brauche Sie wieder

Meine gerade neu erstellte Wiki Seite wurde gelöscht. Bitte erstellen Sie sie wieder. Ich brauche sie.

Es ist nichts darin vorgekommen das nicht erlaubt ist!!! AnnaProbst (talk) 16:17, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

@AnnaProbst: See https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:AnnaProbst why the page was (rightfully) removed. / Siehe https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:AnnaProbst warum der Seiteninhalt (korrekterweise) geloescht wurde: Project:About#What MediaWiki.org is not Malyacko (talk) 17:50, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

On which website was that page?

Unless the website is mediawiki.org, it would be more appropriate and efficient to make your request at that website. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:34, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Error creating the thumbnail image: It was not possible to save the thumbnail file at the target location.

if I want to save something I get to see this >>>>> Error creating the thumbnail image: It was not possible to save the thumbnail file at the target location.

How can I solve this Davidmeyer30 (talk) 16:42, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

What OS are you running MediaWiki on? What are the permissions set for your Wiki's /images folder? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 17:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki1.32.0

PHP7.0.33 (litespeed)

MariaDB10.3.13-MariaDB

ICU57.1

images (0777) Davidmeyer30 (talk) 17:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Davidmeyer30 (talk) 17:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Also see this. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 18:22, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Bad rendering : Pôle des utilisateurs colonele

'Pôle des utilisateurs colonele'
should be:
'Pôle des utilisateurs'

i cant add new skin/template

content about a company

can I add content or article about a company? Electra Angulo (talk) 22:25, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Would this page help? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article Jonathan3 (talk) 00:48, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Technical difficulties on self-contained LAMPP server with MediaWiki; can't access phpmyadmin or wiki

All of a sudden I can't access my own wiki (named karaxas) on my LAMPP setup on my laptop (cannot access database). I don't know why this is occurring but it's not only stopped my wiki from functioning but I also can't get into my phpmyadmin dashboard. After some experimentation with resetting the root password, I don't get any error code in phpmyadmin, just an undefined error that prevents me from accessing the database.

When turning on backtraces in MediaWiki I get this:
#0 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(769): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->reportConnectionError()
#1 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(2694): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->getConnection(0, Array, false)
#2 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/user/User.php(535): wfGetDB(-1)
#3 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1128): User->{closure}(false, 3600, Array, NULL)
#4 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1277): WANObjectCache->{closure}(false, 3600, Array, NULL)
#5 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1111): WANObjectCache->doGetWithSetCallback('global:user:id:...', 3600, Object(Closure), Array, NULL)
#6 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/user/User.php(562): WANObjectCache->getWithSetCallback('global:user:id:...', 3600, Object(Closure), Array)
#7 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/user/User.php(480): User->loadFromCache()
#8 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/user/User.php(417): User->loadFromId(0)
#9 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/session/UserInfo.php(88): User->load()
#10 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/session/CookieSessionProvider.php(119): MediaWiki\Session\UserInfo::newFromId('1')
#11 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/session/SessionManager.php(488): MediaWiki\Session\CookieSessionProvider->provideSessionInfo(Object(WebRequest))
#12 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/session/SessionManager.php(191): MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager->getSessionInfoForRequest(Object(WebRequest))
#13 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/WebRequest.php(750): MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager->getSessionForRequest(Object(WebRequest))
#14 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/session/SessionManager.php(130): WebRequest->getSession()
#15 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/Setup.php(851): MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager::getGlobalSession()
#16 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/includes/WebStart.php(77): require_once('/opt/lampp/htdo...')
#17 /opt/lampp/htdocs/karaxas/index.php(39): require('/opt/lampp/htdo...')
#18 {main}

I'll admit I don't entirely know how to work with extensive php code or anything like that so I'm a bit stumped. Thanks. Analogandrobot (talk) 22:35, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Check localsettings.php to ensure that your database credentials are correct Examknow (Lets Chat) 23:11, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Thumbnails sometimes not saving?

How to impliment VisualEditor/Citation_tool

I have been reading the docs on implementing the citation tool and I am way over my head. Can someone explain how to create citation templates and set everything up? Looking at wikipedias templates dont make any sense as they just link out. This might not be the right place but I have have been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. DovAlp (talk) 18:20, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

How to edit the pages's index.

Hi there. I'm new to MediaWiki and would like some help on editing the index on the left that organizes the pages. For example in this website there is the category 'Main page' that contains 'Get MediaWiki','Ge extensions' and the remaining subcategories. I don't know how to add more subcategories in the wiki I'm working on. Thanks. Isaec.spadotto (talk) 19:29, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

This should help: Manual:Interface/Sidebar. Jonathan3 (talk) 23:35, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, will take a look. Isaec.spadotto (talk) 18:38, 2 May 2019 (UTC)