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MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others, it is used to run all of the projects hosted by the Foundation, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons.

MediaWiki (MW) is a free and open-source wiki application licensed under GPLv2+ that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. It is written in PHP and is run on an Apache server with a SQL relational database management system, usually MariaDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL. These pieces of prerequisite software, when installed together on a Linux operating system, like Ubuntu, are often referred to as a LAMP stack.

MediaWiki also has several extensions that can be used to extend its functionality, including several that come bundled with the latest releases of the software such as:

  • Cite, which adds citation functionalities and footnote capabilities.
  • Gadgets, which enables users to add JavaScript and CSS-based "gadgets" to the Wiki, for example, wikEd.
  • ImageMap, which allows users to insert pieces of text (potentially hyperlinked text) into images, such as annotations.
  • ParserFunctions, which adds parser functions as {{#if:}} and other conditionals.
  • WikiEditor. WikiEditor changes the edit interface, that is, what users see when they edit Wiki pages. It adds several tools to aid users in editing Wiki pages.

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MediaWiki export in OpenOffice.org 3

I've just recently found an article that describes some default functionality in OpenOffice.org 3 that isn't present in my install on 10.04 - This entry details that the Export functionality post 2.4 should have MediaWiki listed - but I only see…
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Where can I find the Ubuntu wiki theme?

Does anyone know where I can get hold of the source code to Ubuntu's current mediawiki theme, 'light'? There don't appear to be any links under the artwork and themes section of the wiki itself.
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Is it possible to download the arch wiki docs for offline reading?

On an arch I could simply run: pacman -S arch-wiki-docs. But I would like to read the arch wiki docs from my ubuntu laptop. Is there any package that provides that?
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 removed my MediaWiki installation, how do I get it back?

I've upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and I've found that there's no mediawiki package, because Debian dropped it in December 2015 for being out-of-date and nobody wanted to maintain it. I had a working MediaWiki installation yesterday, and after…
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Where is my Imagemagick installed?

I tried to locate it with locate imagemagick My result is this…
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PECL extension in Ubuntu 11.10

I was installing Mediawiki on my local development machine and in the configuration, it told me that I will have to make do with slower loading tradition php pages because I dont have a PECL extension installed. Does installing PECL really speed up…
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How do I configure Mediawiki on EC2 if anonymous browsing is disabled?

So I have new MediaWiki instance install on a brand new Amazon EC2 instances. All is going swimmingly, until I have to log in via the web browser to configure it. Since I'm running on a hosted server, I can't hit…
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Mediawiki doesn't send any email

My mediawiki installation (1.28.0, PHP 7.0.13) doesn't send any email and yet there is no error emitted. I checked using Special:EmailUser page. What I have tryed: 1) A simple PHP script to send a mail using PHP's mail() function. It works. 2) I…
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How do I edit MediaWiki articles from LibreOffice Writer?

The LibreOffice extentions page says that the Wiki Publisher is included as a standard feature in 3.3. This was not true for me although I am running LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m19 (Build:401) tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1, Ubuntu package…
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Configuring apache2 for mediawiki

For mediawiki to work on apache2 a file /etc/apache2/conf/mediawiki is required. Where can I find it?
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How can I create a debian package for MediaWiki 1.25.1?

I would like to create an easily installable debian package (.deb file) for MediaWiki 1.25.1 as I know from personal experience that for web programming noobs like myself, installing MediaWiki can seem like an impossible task. I have read some…
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How to backup *and restore* a mediawiki server

I have a typical local installation of mediawiki in Ubuntu 10.04. And I am going to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.04. How can I quickly backup the wiki content and afterwards restore it back? All sites I found mention the sqldump command to dump…
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How can I determine the PHP version MediaWiki is using?

Running Ubuntu 19.10 with MediaWiki 1.31.1 installed. I have a wiki that worked well under Ubuntu 19.04 but says MediaWiki 1.31 internal error Installing some PHP extensions is required. Required components You are missing a required extension to…
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Quick Method to wget my local wiki... need advice (without dumping mysql)

I need advice. I have a webserver vm (LAN, not on the internet), it has 2 wikis: http://lanwiki/GameWiki http://lanwiki/HomeworkWiki I want to wget only the homework wiki pages, without crawling into the GameWiki? My goal is to just get the .htmls…
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Install MediaWiki with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL

I need to install MediaWiki with PostgreSQl as database backend on an 10.04 server. I would prefer to install MediaWiki via apt-get/aptitude but I don't know how to configure the installation not to install the unneeded MySQL. Is it possible to…
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