How to cancel MediaWiki's password reset’s email count? [closed]
If you use Special:PasswordReset more than once for the same username/e-mail address, then https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordReminderResendTime dictates you’ll get "A password reset...
View ArticleHow can I modify categories on a Wikipedia Talk page?
I was looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_logos and noticed one article already had the logo. So I tried to remove the category from the talk page but couldn't figure...
View ArticleHow can I find the pageview count of all articles in a Wikipedia category?
I'm trying to find the most popular pages in the logos requested category and add them.
View ArticleWhat is the easiest way to fix multiple dead links a article Wikipedia?
As I've started editing Wikipedia I've noticed that some older articles will have many dead links with no archived url attached. What is the best way to handle this besides manually finding the...
View ArticleMediaWiki: activate Visual Editor for all NameSpaces by default
I would like to activate the extension VisualEditor by default to all available and future Namespaces by default in MediaWiki. In particular see section Changing active namespaces of the VisualEditor...
View ArticleTransclude a page from another language or another project
In Wikipedia, to copy the content of another page (called "transclusion"), you just need to add {{:SourcePageName}} in the destination page.Is it possible to transclude a page from:Another language ?...
View ArticleIs there an API for querying the size of a Wikipedia article, given its...
I'm writing a browser extension that attaches the wikipedia article length next to movie titles on lists from imdb.com. Hopefully, longer articles indicate better movies. Getting the length in words...
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How can you search meta-data tags in Media Wiki / Wikipedia?
I'm not sure if meta-data tags / name-value pairs is what I'm referring to or not, but I'd like to be able to search Wikipedia's sidebar tags such as the ones displayed in the screenshot below:
View ArticleHow to export all pages from MediaWiki to hierarchy of HTML files
I'm in the process of starting my bachelor project and needs a documentation system. Currently it looks like MediaWiki fulfills my requirements. All pages of a particular MediaWiki-project is stored in...
View ArticleHow can I embed the contents of the "What links here" link in a Mediawiki theme?
I want to be able to see the list of pages which link to the page I'm currently viewing. Is there an extension or snippet which allows this? Searched but only found old links.
View ArticleHow can I add a link on a MediaWiki message page?
At our company, we have an internal wiki, the access to which is restricted to a specific group. If someone from outside that group attempts access, they will be diverted to the special MediaWiki...
View ArticleHow to add a UNC URL to a MediaWiki page
In a MediaWiki page, I'd like to add an URL to a file on a file server. The path is an UNC one(\\fileserver\project\...\SPECIAL.ext), and I already have tried following "path...
View ArticleSearch within a category page on a MediaWiki site
I'm trying to search for text on a category page of a MediaWiki website. But the search seems to only work on article pages. How can I also search on category (or all) pages on a MediaWiki website?This...
View ArticleIs there a tool to clean up Wikipedia articles where there are duplicate...
Sometimes when editing Wikipedia I find an article where references have been duplicated.Is there a tool that makes it easy to merge all those references to the same url into just one reference?Here is...
View ArticleIs it possible to do basic transformation of text in a MediaWiki template?
I have created a template on my MediaWiki wiki which shortcuts linking to some frequently used book titles. One of the parameters controls whether the shortcut template points at my wiki or another...
View ArticleCustom Namespaces How To [closed]
I understand that MediaWiki cannot have subwikis, rather custom Namespaces would be the closest one could get (source).In order to test this I created a Namespace as per Manual:Using custom...
View ArticleHow can I get rid of Dark Mode from MinervaNeue on Desktop Wikipedia? [closed]
I am a logged-in user on Wikipedia, and I began to use the MinervaNeue theme by changing my user preferences the last time I logged onto Wikipedia. This was for the purpose of using dark mode. However,...
View ArticleDoes MediaWiki support multiple levels of auto-confirmed users? [closed]
I want to enable a „low auto-confirmed“ level (leaving common auto-confirmed users intact).Those users (and IPs) must comply with the following criteria.3 or more edits (in different articles) from...
View ArticleLine by line display of author responsible for contribution on MediaWiki page
Is there a way to show "who contributed to this line" of each line of a page of Wikipedia or of a MediaWiki site?It would show per page and would be similar to the subversion blame tool.
View ArticleIs it possible to search Wikipedia including deleted text?
It is possible to perform search on Wikipedia, which includes history along with current page content.It would be especially good to search in deleted articles or deleted passages of articles.(If no,...
View ArticleIs there a way to download a list of all Wikipedia categories? [closed]
Is there a way to download a list of all Wikipedia categories?
View ArticleCan I get all contributions by users and export them in a csv file in...
From my MediaWiki site, I would like to get all the contributions by users in the last month in a csv file format. Is there any extension for this? Can I query the database and get this information?
View ArticleMediaWiki - sort simple list
I have a basic MediaWiki installation with several categories (which is sorted automatically). In each category I have several links to articles. These links are listed in a simple star (*) list, which...
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"Template:Template other" is on the top of the page despite the fact I didn't...
If it helps, I'm using Miraheze as my host of choice. As you can see from the above, it says Template: Template other despite the fact the page source begins with:{{Infobox|image =...
View ArticleFind when a phrase was added to a Wikipedia page
Is there any way to find when a specific word or phrase was added to a Wikipedia page? I want to find a way to determine the first revision that contains a match.For example, the first occurrence of...
View ArticleHome directory showing-up twice in Mediawiki links
I recently installed Wikimedia for a tiny non-profit organization, as I am the technical person on the board. With this fresh installation links are showing the home directory twice. Example: (our...
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Can I remove Mediawiki namespaces from the dropdown on Special: pages?
I feel like this should be easy, so bear with me please.On all manner of Special: pages, like Special:All Pages, you get to decide in which namespace to look, like so:However, most of the default...
View ArticleMediawiki Sesion lockout [migrated]
After restarting my computer and trying to log in to my wiki, I got the following message:There appears to be a problem with your login session. Your operation has been stopped as a precaution against...
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What is the proper way to create an internal link in wikitext?
Our goal is to create an internal-facing hyper link such that....the text people see with their eyes says "hot dogs"The page on mathematical strict total orderings is the destination page that people...
View ArticleHow do we convert this table into wikitext format? [closed]
The following table is incorrectly formatted.{| Left<br>Column || Middle<br>Column || Right<br>Column | -| (UP, LEFT) || (UP, ) || Data 2 |-| Row header 2 || Data 3 || Data 4 |}In the...
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