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 v  •  d  • e  This page is for questions relating to the MediaWiki software.


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Welcome to MediaWiki.org's Support desk, the central on-wiki place to ask MediaWiki questions!

The greater purpose of this page is to make our Manual and other available help so good that you do not have to come here to ask questions, or making them easier to find.

There are other ways for of communication as well (IRC, Mailing lists etc.). Read more here.

Before you post

 * Please read through our technical manual and end-user help.
 * Project:Current issues is where you should discuss issues about the mediawiki.org website itself.
 * If your question is about an extension, consider posting your question at that extension's talk page instead.
 * Project:Sandbox: Test wiki editing.

Post a new question
1. To help us answer your questions, please always indicate which versions you are using:
 * MediaWiki (reported by your wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP (likewise)
 * Database (likewise, e.g. MySQL 4.1)

2. Please include the URL of your wiki unless you absolutely can't. It's often a lot easier for us to identify the source of the problem if we can look for ourselves.

3. To start a new thread, click "Start a new discussion".

Archiving topics

Topics are automatically archived when they have been inactive for three weeks. If a question you have asked is approaching this limit and still has not been answered, please 'bump' it to prevent it being archived. However do not 'bump' for other reasons.