Questions tagged [mediawiki]
MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. Use this tag when asking for extensions to be used on a MediaWiki site.
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What libraries are available for interacting with Wikipedia, Wikidata, or MediaWiki in Ruby?
What libraries are available for interacting with Wikipedia, Wikidata, or other MediaWiki servers in the Ruby programming language?
I can search GitHub for recently updated repositories with this ...
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Content management system to which I could migrate from MediaWiki
MediaWiki maybe too "open" for me.
All of its "management" webpages are open for crawling by crawlers; noindex isn't enough because I want to prevent their crawling altogether, not ...
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Mediawiki plugin to add markdown support?
Is there a good, maintained mediawiki plugin that supports markdown? The mediawiki syntax is somewhat alien after you're spending your entire day writing Markdown.
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Side-by-side bilingual Wikipedia reading app
I need a Wikipedia app that shows articles in both Japanese and French at the same time.
I know that many Wikipedia reading apps (including the official app) allow switching between languages, but it ...
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What MediaWiki-oriented or forked CMS will you recommend?
I have an all-core MediaWiki website and I think to try an architecturally-similar yet simpler CMS but with these features:
Easy migration path between the two CMSs.
More control over locking down ...
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Ontology backed Wiki for Linked Open Data / RDF?
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We have research projects that involve generating and curating Linked Open Data.
We used to have the ontology and instance data as a collection of Turtle or N-Triples files in a Git ...
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To sync a desktop wiki software with a MediaWiki wiki
Is there a desktop wiki software that can be sync on a MediaWiki wiki (private)?
I have my own wiki, hosted in a wikifarm, and I was wondering if I could use a desktop wiki software as a local editor....
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API to create entries in wiktionary
I am looking for an API with documentation for writing entries in Wiktionary.
I wish to create entries for new words from a local database.
Preferably in python
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Is there a HTML to MediaWiki Converter?
I've been looking for a while and I can't seem to find a HTML to MediaWiki Converter.
I'm looking for somewhere where I can type something like:
HTML Code:
<a href="https://mediawiki.org">...
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Is there a way to import bilingual wordlists from wiktionary, omegawiki or wordnet online?
I would like to import bilingual wordlists from wiktionary, omegawiki or wordnet but without using php, python, mysql beacuse I am not an expert in this tehnologies. I would like to query it online or ...
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dump a mediawiki from external
There are some possibilities how to backup or dump your Mediawiki when you have server access. But is there a tool, that I can use to dump a complete MediaWiki Instance from external? I know, there is ...
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Online Content Management Database for Media and Literature
As part of research project, I'm looking to manage media (images, video, sound) and literature (a screenshot with DOI or links to the source) I collect into an online database for myself and others to ...
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Is there a mobile app to cache the content of a private MediaWiki instance?
I'm a webmaster at an organization that has a private wiki. We have a MediaWiki instance hosted on a GoDaddy shared hosting environment. My supervisor is asking that we have an app for our employee's ...
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Is there a program to emulate a MediaWiki editor?
What I'm looking for would basically look like this, with previewing and preferably export to PDF.
This would basically be something like a TeX engine, but using MediaWiki markup.
It would also need ...
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Code editor, or editor plugin, that can highlight and prettify wikitext
The source code for templates in Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and all MediaWiki is usually written in a congealed lump like this:
<includeonly>{{#if:{{{2|}}}|[[{{{1}}}#{{{2}}}]]|[[{{{1}}}]]}} - [http:...
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Convert PDF files to wiki?
I'm looking to convert a very messy* set of reference PDFs to wikitext. Ideally, I'd like to make this process a simple one-and-done application, but understand that such a tool may not be available. ...
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Recommendations for a visual Wikipedia table editor?
I am looking for a visual Wikipedia table editor that generates the markup code to be placed directly into a Wikipedia page.
Requirements:
Offline support
Chrome app or native Linux (Ubuntu) app
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Can you recommend a MediaWiki extension for visualizing the Wiki's links?
I'm preparing to launch a Wiki. Now, at the beginning, it is quite important for me to visualize how the the first pages I add are connected to each other. I found an extension called WikiViz that ...
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MediaWiki video extension with programmatic seeking
I would like to create a page on a MediaWiki wiki to instruct users how to complete a procedure using a piece of software.
Instead of taking lots of screenshots, I thought it would be better to have ...
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Backup MediaWiki site hosted by 3rd party?
We use MediaWiki hosted by ibiblio. We are not admins on the server, so we have limited access to the server (we are wiki sysops and Bureaucrats (or maybe Bureaucrats and Administrators)). I'm a ...
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Google Chrome extension for MediaWiki / WikiMedia notifications
Not so long ago the official WikiMedia wikis introduced a notification feature.
You'll see a little box to the right of your username at the top of the page when you're logged in. It will turn red ...
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Reliable Wikimedia Commons uploader
When uploading pictures to Wikimedia Commons, I usually use the online Upload Wizard, but it has several problems:
You have to select files using your browser's file selection dialog, which is very ...
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MediaWiki extension that allows me to insert adsense code into every wiki page
I'm looking for an extension that will allow me to insert Google AdSense code into every wiki page. I know there is an extension out there that puts the code on the left side bar, but that's not what ...
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Map of Wikimedia Commons pictures
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While doing tourism, I use the Wikimedia Commons app to send pictures of monuments to Commons (a repository of free media).
Most minor monuments are not on Commons, but the Eiffel Tower has ...
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Android app to edit MediaWiki wikis (browser loses data when kicked out of memory)
Let's say I edit a Wikipedia article, and receive a phone call before publishing it. After the phone call, I go back to the browser, and unfortunately it has been kicked out of memory, and I have to ...
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Reorder columns of a MediaWiki wiki table
A MediaWiki wiki table looks like this:
{|
|a1
|b1
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|a2
|b2
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|a3
|b3
|}
It renders as:
a1 b1
a2 b2
a3 b3
Wikipedia editors often need to reorder columns (for instance alphabetically), ...
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Mediawiki extension that allows me to confirm user contributions before they are applied to the actual wiki
I am running more of a informational wiki. I keep registrations open for users who want to edit the pages that are not in English, however I am having a problem with spam. I am looking for an ...
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CAPTCHA for MediaWiki [closed]
I read this about ReCaptcha:
Unfortunately, as of 2011, some spammers appear to have figured out a way to bypass it, either through character recognition or by using humans. For that reason, it ...
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