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Existing pages with table code doesn't work in mediawiki 1.13.2

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a
 * URL: localhost

I have upgraded mediawiki version 1.10.0 with 1.13.2. I have executed update.php and refreshLinks.php. But the pages which have table code has broken. The data is in text table. All the pages are working good with 1.10.0 version. But doesn't work with 1.13.2.

So, I have edited the page which was not working on 1.13.2 and copied the data from other system where it is working with 1.10.0 and saved the changes. but the page is not saving properly and it is removing the '|' and also placing some extra characters to the data.

Even the table format is good also the page is not getting displayed in tabular form.

It works good when i create a new page with table format.

Please help me that what's wrong with version 1.13.2 that doesn't support existing page table code? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.88.84.10 (talk • contribs) 20:49, 31 December 2008. Please sign your posts with ~ !


 * I really need your help in finding this problem. Actually, it looks like there is some encoding problem some where with mediawiki version 1.13.2. This is corrupting the page display. If you are already aware of the problem then please let me know what could be the solution? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.88.85.100 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 13 January 2009. Please sign your posts with ~ !

nowiki tags appear

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.5
 * MySQL version: 5
 * URL:

Hi all,

I have a certain issue which makes  appear on the results of an mssql query below are the source



Fixed Issues
The table below lists all issues fixed since the last release.

include a path and transfer a excel table

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.0-8+etch13 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch8-log
 * URL:

Hello I'm trying to include the path on the top of a site (example wiki>help>diskussions>). Are there a command? I'm looking for a tool to transfer excel tabel in a wiki table? Thanks for help

Problem with ordered list and an indented table

 * MediaWiki version: 1.11.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.9-2 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.24a-community-nt
 * URL: http://wiki.smarthome.com/index.php?title=Remotely_Setting_the_Ramp_Rate_for_an_X10_Scene_Address

1) Cannot resume numbering of an ordered list (using # character at beginnig of line), after a table. Is there a way to do this without using HTML?

2) Content after the second indented table is not returning the left margin. List item numbers 4,5 and 6 should be flush left with items 1,2 and 3. The table between list items 4 and 5 should be flush with the first two tables. After each table, I restart list item numbering with the HTML ol tag. As you can see, this seems to work for the first part of the page, but after the second table everything gets indented further. NOTE: the large table on this page is actually 3 tables embedded in another 3-cell table.

Can anyone help me fix this?"

—198.173.162.2 17:11, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * There's no wikimarkup way of starting an ordered list at a number other than 1; as you've found, the solution is to use the    tag directly. Try adding a linebreak between the end of the table and the  ; that should reset the indentation. Happy ‑ melon 21:42, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I would suggest: Use ONE ordered list with HTML tags from the beginning and don't indent the tables (they are indented by the list - at least with my FF 1.5). The following code (just simplified)

 Text Text Text {| border="0" cellpadding="2" width="50%"

Text
 * }
 * }

Text Text 
 * gives the following result:

 Text <li>Text <li>Text {| border="0" cellpadding="2" width="50%"



<li>Text
 * }

<li>Text <li>Text </ol>
 * If you want to indent the tables more than this, add something like style="margin-left: XXpx;" to the tables' heads.
 * Concerning resuming numbering of lists with wiki markup, see also above . -- JörgM 90.179.238.201 20:32, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Alternative to MediaWiki:Talkpagetext for all non-Talk edit pages?

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67
 * URL: n/a

Just a quick question. I want to post a link to my "article guidelines" page on each non-talk edit form in my wiki. I already found MediaWiki:Talkpagetext which does this for the talk edit forms, but I haven't found a similar page for the non-talk edit forms yet. Does it exist and if so, what's it called? Thanks! —78.20.48.49 14:57, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You can make your own editnotices for any namespace: MediaWiki:Editnotice-0 for the mainspace, MediaWiki:Editnotice-2 for userspace, etc. So you just need to put a copy of (or a template containing, make sure it's protected!) the guidlines, in the editnotice for each even-numbered namespace. Happy ‑ melon 21:27, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for! —81.82.72.97 20:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipage Background

 * MediaWiki version:1.15alpha (r48892)
 * PHP version:5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version:5.0.51a-community-nt
 * URL: Still localhost

i want to make a wikipage got an background color like the light purple at the manual pages. how do i do this? :)

—84.27.52.84 14:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The background colour here on mediawiki.org is set in our MediaWiki:Common.css file, which applies CSS to all wiki pages. For the Manual: namespace, we have


 * You may need to look up the syntax of CSS in order to understand what this code is doing. Hope this helps, Happy ‑ melon 16:02, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

RecentChanges Filtering

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.8
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL:

Hi, we're using MediaWiki for organisation of our campus group. I added " " to our mainpage so that every user is advised of new topics. My problem is that that articles of a certain category are changed much more frequently than others. It doesn't make sense to get informed about changes in this categories' articles. How can I filter this category? On the RecentChanges Page itself it is possible with "$wgAllowCategorizedRecentChanges" but I don't know how to use it on our mainpage.

Thank you!

—Trop 18:39, 11 June 2009 (UTC)