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A place to talk about tech related to a Wikimedia wiki.

Have a technical wiki question? Ask here. This can include, for example:

• requests for new tools, scripts, and bots;
• help with CSS or JavaScript;
• API help;
• and data collection help (including database queries).

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How do you make a wiki?

I don't know how to make a wiki that is powered by MediaWiki. I have looked all over the wiki. Can someone help me please? XxMeepsterxX (talk)

Nevermind. I did some more looking around the wiki XxMeepsterxX (talk)

Bonjour, Je voudrais inserer ces liens dynamiques dans une page wiki et voir les memes resultats comme sur les pages web HTML:

http://tableau.aho.afro.who.int/views/TheHealthSysthemDW-Copy2/1_AntenatalCC1VperR?:embed=y

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tableau.aho.afro.who.int/javascripts/api/viz_v1.js"></script><div class="tableauPlaceholder" style="width:1908px; height:897px;"><object class="tableauViz" width="1908" height="897" style="display:none;"><param name="host_url" value="http%3A%2F%2Ftableau.aho.afro.who.int%2F" /><param name="site_root" value="" /><param name="name" value="TheHealthSysthemDW-Copy2/1_AntenatalCC1VperR" /><param name="tabs" value="no" /><param name="toolbar" value="yes" /></object></div>

Comment y proceder ?

S'il vous plait veuillez m'apporter un appui.

Jadice.

Hallo! I just "created" a new Wiki using MediaWiki latest version. My question is: is there a software (app) running under Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite that can allow me to create and/or edit wiki articles OFFline and then sync them to ONline version? Something like MarsEdit for blogs, just to be clear...

Some years ago there was http://solowiki.sourceforge.net/ Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

about text font in arabic language

Hi, I would like to notice that the actual font make wikipidia text unreadable in arabic language, I highly recommend to use "Tahoma" font for arabic text, whit a size of 1em.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 41.251.104.224 (talk) 19:25, 20 January 2015‎

Which font do you dislike? Please report your issue against mw:ULS. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Inserimento link

Salve. Vorrei inserire un link che indirizza a sito esterno in un testo. Ho già provato più volte ma viene considerato come indirizzo pubblicitario. Come risolvere?

il link è questo: http://bandadicropani.jimdo.com ho provato a creare una pagina anche ma non mi accetta i link. testi e link sono originali e non sono usati a scopo pubblicitario.

Is it possible to download a raw dataset of all world government organizations (city, state, province, etc.)?

If there is not a data value indicating it's a government organization, are all URLS in a table so that I can programmatically deduce which URLs are government, therefore indirectly indicating all government organizations?

thanks,

Alex Glaros

اقتراح لوكبيديا

لماذا لايكون هناك عدد مشاهدين و معجبين و وصفحات كتاب ويكبديا بتويتر شهرة

Re-Print Book

I have edited a Book titled Clearing the Hemp Smoke. This project was completed, printed and received on July 30th, 2014. I am now wishing to do a re-print in a larger quantity.

How to I access the material and then re- order.?

Please respond via EMail....chester.curling@gmail.com

Thank You

Chester W. Curling

Try pediapress.com. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

How to get started to contribute to open software here

please guide me i am begginer

How do u do ? Am here by asking hw can i join this company

mw:How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

hi i have a problem with vector theme

how can i change the bg image ?

one of my devices is not compatible with one of my applications, can anyone help?

Connection terminated as request was larger than 10485760

Client call Weservice. An error occurred when the client uses MTOM to transmit more than 10M. { fepacdb.client.MTOMServerDeal hs = s.getPort(new QName(strNm,strPort), MTOMServerDeal.class); SOAPBinding binding = (SOAPBinding) ((BindingProvider) hs).getBinding(); boolean mtomEnabled = binding.isMTOMEnabled(); binding.setMTOMEnabled(true); } Server has opened MTOM. { @javax.xml.ws.soap.MTOM //@BindingType(value=javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPBinding.SOAP12HTTP_MTOM_BINDING) @WebService() public class MTOMServer } How to set up wildfly-8.2.0.Final?

Professional translators

I am a professional translator and I have read the tamil translation and it could have been translated better( if any one likes I am happy to translate the texts for if needed and remuneration adequately. I ham happy render my service free for 3 months, should any one interested pl.let me know. Thanks sathiya

Our experience with professional translators is that they do a very poor job compared to volunteers. So please become a volunteer and help us for free like every other editor of the millions who contributed to Wikimedia projects. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Those browsers (Mozilla, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer) issuing message "Can not load page" when I trying to open Wikipedia

Please advice. Those browsers (Mozilla, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer) issuing message "Can not load page" when I trying to open Wikipedia. Since half an year ago I could not open Wikipedia page. Cannot Load Page message. The browsers are the last version. What I can do? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.90.100.232 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:43, 15 October 2015‎.

You are probably using an extremely outdated operating system which breaks HTTPS. Please update your device, for your personal safety. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Number of rows in pagelinks table

Hello,

I've been on a quest to find out the number of rows roughly inside the pagelinks.sql table. Does anyone have a rough estimate that I could use?

Thanks!

Try quarry.wmflabs.org. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Downloading maps of capital cities

Hey, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but...

On the Wikipedia page for any country capital (Tirana, for instance), there's a picture of the country with a red dot where the capital is. But the red dot is not a part of the image; it's another tiny image on top. If you click on the image, it will open up a bigger original version, with no dot at all.

Is there any way to download the big version of the image, which includes the marker for the capital? Thanks!

Known issue, filed a summary at phabricator:T120809. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Incoerências no texto sobre "Moisés"

O texto sobre Moisés, em: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mois%C3%A9s está incoerente. Diz que foi posterior a Aquenáton (r. 1352-1338 a.C.), no entanto, diz que tinha "Aos quarenta anos (1552 a.C.)", "Quarenta anos depois (1512 a.C.)" e "Durante quarenta anos (segundo a maioria dos historiadores, no período entre 1550 a.C. e 1510 a.C.)", anterior a Aquenáton, pois. É incoerente também com o que está mais abaixo, no quadro "Identidade de Moisés", onde diz que: "Localização Temporal: 1250 a.C.".

Thanks, please click "edit" and fix. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Wrong parentid values in enwiki XML dumps

Hi,

I'm working with the enwiki-20151002 dump [1], and have noticed many cases (around 170k) where the parentid value in a revision is wrong.

Easiest example to verify this: In file enwiki-20151002-pages-meta-history14.xml-p003920011p003924999.7z (16MB), you may find this:

   <revision>
     <id>263728646</id>
     <parentid>246108841</parentid>
     <timestamp>2009-01-13T02:52:26Z</timestamp>
     ...
   </revision>

However, by inspecting the pages history [2], you may see that 246108841 is not the correct parent, but rather there are two other revisions that happened between 246108841 and 263728646.

Thx, ealmansi

You should probably report this issue on the phabricator:. Ruslik (talk) 18:52, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Before reporting, make sure you understand what rev_parent_id is for: mw:Manual:Revision_table#rev_parent_id. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

urgent !!! How to realize multi-language in one wiki site

Dear all,

Plz help me ...

right now , I have created EN WIKI for my products. But I'm wondering to know how can I add Chinese options in the same WIKI site?

I don't like two sites for different languages.

Could anybody tell me how to do it ?

Localisation is automatically available in 350 languages, no need to do anything. If you want to run a multilingual wiki, see mw:MLEB; if you want to make your wiki Chinese, see mw:Manual:$wgLanguageCode or redo the installation. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Windows 10 Store App Source Code?

Greetings and Happy Holiday!

I want to create a Universal Windows Store App for Windows 10 of my wiki like the one for Wikipedia on the Store. I found this github link. I just want to make sure this is the compatible source code for Windows 10. Thanks friends!--75.73.139.70 01:13, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Probably nobody tested the app with Windows 10 (are you sure you want?). It's your opportunity: let us know what happens. Nemo 10:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

something wrong about MediaWiki

I am an administrator of cdo wikipedia. I find something wrong with the namespace "MediaWiki". It should be displayed as "MediaWiki" instead of "媒體維基" (error example). I don't know where (which page) to fix it. Can you tell me?--el caballero de los Leones (talk) 09:35, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi, if "媒體維基" is an incorrect translation of MediaWiki, you should either use a correct translation of the word or then default namespace name, that is "MediaWiki". You should then follow instructions on Requesting wiki configuration changes. --Stryn (talk) 11:11, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Two factor authentication

Will wikimedia and wikipedia particulary support this technology? Is it in todo list? Some accounts (administrators e. g.) are more valuable and must be secured stronger. Yanpas (talk) 09:06, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

@Yanpas: Good suggestion. In fact, this topic has been brought up several times in different venues. It's not currently possible to enable it on SUL-enabled wikis, however, because the relevant extension (mw:Extension:OATHAuth) is still immature and does not support CentralAuth wikis. If you want to try it out, please do so on wikitech: which has the extension enabled (Note that it's not SUL-enabled, so you'll have to create a separate account there). Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 09:34, 26 December 2015 (UTC)