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Mediawiki for personal use [closed]

I need to setup a mediawiki like wiki for some personal projects. Access control is absolutely essential. I should be able to approve when new users create an account on the system. Therefore, i ...
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How do I set up ZScreen to upload images to my mediawiki?

I've set up a mediawiki with all the correct settings and enabled image uploading. When I do this manually this all works OK. I want to be able to upload screenshots automatically into my mediawiki ...
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IE9 randomly blocks the cursor from moving up a row in text boxes on wikis

Ever since "upgrading" to IE9, I've been having a super-annoying and very inconsistent problem. While editing wikis, every now and then, I can't move the cursor to the previous row. Pressing the up ...
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Removing non-existent links in mediawiki for non-logged in users in Mediawiki

I made some change in the Includes/Linker.php to remove non-existent links to anonymous users of my wiki site. The code just shows the text and no link. It used to work fine in older version, but in ...
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What software can I use to scrape (download) a MediaWiki wiki?

I want to scrape an entire wiki that uses MediaWiki software. The amount of pages are pretty small, but they have plenty of revisions, and I'd like to preferably scrape revisions as well. The wiki ...
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How to use pandoc to convert a block of text in Emacs from Markdown to Wiki text?

How to use an external program such as pandoc to convert a block of text in Emacs from Markdown to Wiki text (as used by Mediawiki), and substitute the content in situ?
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MediaWiki: Branch an Article

Let me first state that I've tried searching MediaWiki's Website , Google, superuser, and stack overflow stackoverflow. In addition I've tried searching for a MediaWiki centric site, and the closest I ...
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MediaWiki like wiki, but with user management?

I really like the syntax of MediaWiki, and that it doesn't use a rich editor, but I would very much like if it had user management. As far as I can tell, the page is either locked or open for anyone ...
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Unable to get Mathjax extension to work in Mediawiki

I am trying to install Mathjax on a mediawiki installation. From the official page for the extension, I followed all the steps. Downloaded the latest zip distribution, uploaded and extracted it to ...
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Advice on platform for web-help? [closed]

We have a web-based software product that has a growing user-base of around 200+ people. We used to have our help sent out with the product as PDFs, and then last year we offer both the PDFs and also ...
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How do I restore the images from a MediaWiki backup?

I'm having trouble restoring the images folder from a backup of my MediaWiki. I made a backup of my MediaWiki (MediaWiki 1.15.1, PHP 5.3.2, and MySQL 5.1.41), reformatted my computer, and reinstalled ...
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MediaWiki + OpenID extension issue

I have installed mediawiki 1.16.5 on ubuntu I have followed installation procedure Now when I click on Login with OpenID page goes blank , I checked the log it shows some of the files couldn't ...
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Can Mediawiki serve data embedded in page content? [closed]

I'm looking for something like: Source of /?FooData: <data id="abc"> .......... .......... .......... </data> And then be able to point to it directly with something along the lines of ...
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How do I change the UI in MediaWiki v1.16.4?

I'm probably overlooking something obvious, but I cannot seem to find any information about changing from the default UI in MediaWiki. I want to use the newest 1st party UI (seen on ...
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MediaWiki editor with instant preview?

Are there any editors for writing MediaWiki markup that gives an instant preview? Preferably not web-based. Ideally I would be looking for a window with a horizontal divider. In the upper half ...
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MediaWiki - how to redirect directly to a media file

When clicked, "[[Media:spreadsheet.xls]]" successfully loads the spreadsheet in Excel. However, a page containing "#REDIRECT [[Media:spreadsheet.xls]]" just goes to the ...
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How to 'code collapse' wiki syntax on Notepad++ (or any other text editor)?

I'm familiar with Notepad++'s code collapse for certain programming languages but recently I've been working with a plain text file that uses with Wiki syntax. For example: ==Heading1== Content ...
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Converting MediaWiki to something more portable

I was hosting a local MediaWiki using XAMPP on a Windows machine. Recently, I've begun using multiple machines and realized that having the wiki run locally on a Windows machine might not be the ideal ...
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Export to MediaWiki (.txt)

How do I export to MediaWiki (.txt) format from OpenOffice 3 Writer (under Windows 7) ?
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Ubutun Enterprise Cloud - Mediawiki [Connection to instance-FAILED]

I am able to install and setup Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud accordingly. D/led and used Hybridfox to launch instances (Mediawiki) successfully. However, the problem is that after the instance is ...
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MediaWiki: increase session timeout

I have a small MediaWiki wiki in a hosted website. It works pretty well, except that I can't find where to configure the session timeout. Right now, my session expires while I'm editing pages. I've ...
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migrate HTML based knowledge base to MediaWiki

In our company we have a large "Knowledge Base" in HTML form so on a general website. I have been implementing a MediaWiki based system as it is faster cleaner and want to allow all users ability to ...
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Why has MediaWiki still no WYSIWYG editor? [closed]

After almost 10 years, MediaWiki still has no support for a WYSIWYG editor. The metapage explaining various info about this topic states that The problem is that any WYSIWYG editor would have to ...
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Best Light Software to Manage Large Amounts of Data?

I have seen suggestions like TiddlyWiki for storing data that you want to sort out, but I like solutions like MediaWiki but I don't like how heavy it is and I don't mind if I host it up on a webserver ...
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SMILES extension for MediaWiki? [closed]

I have a wiki about chemistry and I am looking for a MediaWiki extension to parse simplified molecular input line entry specification (SMILES). Is there such an extension available? Thanks. Oh, I ...
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What is the default location of the MediaWiki extensions directory?

I recently install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 10.04 using all the default settings. I'm looking to install an extension. Where is the extensions directory located by default?
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Offline Mediawiki editing / syncing?

I run a private mediawiki site for research and study, but its a catch 22 situation of I have the most time to organise it when I'm on the road and not online! Aside from getting a 3G dongle ...
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Checkbox in Mediawiki syntax?

Is there a way to insert an HTML checkbox in Mediawiki syntax? <input> doesn't appear on their list of blessed tags, so I can't just insert it. (FWIW, this is for a private documentation page ...
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How do MediaWiki and Confluence compare in a corporate setting? [closed]

My question is less about features are more about your real world experiences. Has anyone used both MediaWiki and Confluence in a business environment and can comment on how they worked? So although ...
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MediaWiki alternatives for small business?

Are there any good alternative wiki's to MediaWiki out there for a small business? Mostly we are just wanting to use it for documentation. MediaWiki is a fine (and slightly outdated) piece of ...
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Export Firefox Bookmarks to Mediawiki Wiki

Anybody know how I can convert my Firefox Bookmarks to a Mediawiki Wiki page? I've tried exporting the Firefox Bookmarks to HTML and then entering that HTML into the wiki page that markup isn't ...
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How do I set the icon for the url in wikimedia [closed]

I want to have a nice little icon displayed when users surf my site like Google for example: I also, specifically, want my Rss feed to generate such an icon. My Rss feed page has a php extension ...
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mediawiki - How do I configure mediawiki to show heading numbering/lettering in the document?

When the table of contents is generated, it numbers sections based upon their heading. section 1 section 2 2.1 section 2.1 2.2 secttion 2.2 section 3 and so on. I would like these section numbers ...
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mediawiki - assign Ctrl-S to save page (edit mode)

Mediawiki: I'd like to change the key combination alt-shift-s to be ctrl-s for saving a page that is currently being edited.
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How to change the column count in “Pages in category x” in MediaWiki? [closed]

I have a MediaWiki installation and pages listed on a category, and when I access the category it displays "Pages in category x" and then a 3-column list of pages. What I want is to change the column ...
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MediaWiki: restricting access to view/edit

Can MediaWiki combine with a Windows domain server, so people logged in with a domain account can view/edit pages? Or at least has an account control mechanism so reach the above requirement.
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Mass Rollback on MediaWiki

So, I have a personal wiki that I use to document code and programming practices and all that good stuff over at StackOverflow. I linked to one of the pages on an SO answer and BOOM! Spam Bots. ...
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MediaWiki and Mercurial (Hg) Integration

Context: Our availability requirements are pretty loose. If our Virtual Private Server goes off-line, I need to be able to replace it within a few days. That's no problem because the data and logs ...
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Pre-built templates in MediaWiki?

Hopefully this won't be too confusing, because I am not to familiar with the terminology. I'll try to explain what I'm looking for: I have a local install of Media Wiki, and there is a type of page ...
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Recommendation for Wiki that supports WYSIWYG?

Currently we use a MediaWiki installation for writing documentation, but several of us find the markup format horribly arbitrary and awkward, with a mixture of Wiki tags and XML in the text, and the ...
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Converting HTML to MediaWiki .txt format not working in OpenOffice?

I been trying to convert my HTML file to MediaWiki format by exporting it using OpenOffice. I keep getting this error message though: Error saving the document <filename>: Write Error. The ...
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DokuWiki - How to show the edit buttons on section headers

In DokuWiki, is there any plugin compatible with the latest stable release (2009-02-14), that can show the edit buttons on section headers (like Wikipedia or MediaWiki) instead of showing them at the ...
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Easily host a MediaWiki locally?

Is there a simple Wiki that doesn't use a database, but which uses syntax like MediaWiki? (eg. like Wikipedia) I want to host it locally on my PC, but have it hosted as an HTTP webserver on a ...