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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...