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I have this problem with ee.pl. Nobody can help me?—B3t 10:24, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

two navigation bars AND custom image in the navigation bar

 * MediaWiki version:i cant find the version number but i downloaded it a month ago
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

hi, am a very new to wikipedia... its a simple question :-) how to get two navigation bars on wikimedia? one left and one right? regards, ar

second question: i would like to add a image to the sidebar like: bild:seitenbanner.jpg
 * navigation
 * Spezial:Alle_Seiten|Alle Seiten
 * mainpage|mainpage-description
 * portal-url|portal
 * currentevents-url|currentevents
 * recentchanges-url|recentchanges
 * randompage-url|randompage
 * Index|Index
 * helppage|help
 * SEARCH
 * TOOLBOX
 * LANGUAGES

the preview shows the image but when i save the sidebar, the picture does not appear. what can i do?

—78.55.33.253 09:22, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * For the second question see here. — Matěj Grabovský 20:31, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Novice user needs help backing up Wiki site

 * MediaWiki version: Don't know how to find this out
 * PHP version: Don't know how to find this out
 * MySQL version: Don't know how to find this out
 * URL: Intranet site

Dear colleagues,

I have been ordered to back up a Wiki site used internally on my employer's intranet site.

I found the following link to back up a Wiki :

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Exporting_all_the_files_of_a_wiki

And a link on this page taking me here :

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages

Can anyone advise on what I need to fill in on this link? It asks for "Display pages starting at:" and "Display pages ending at:". What do I put in these fields? I tried inserting the url for my wiki site but this did not work.

Unfortunately I have no knowledge whatsoever about Mediawiki so have no idea how to back it up. None of the terminology means anything to me. I don't even know how to find out which version of Mediawiki I'm using! Any help appreciated.

—129.230.248.1 11:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)


 * To find out the version of MediaWiki that you're using, go to Special Pages in your wiki and then choose the page Version. To backup your database, check Manual:Backing up a wiki. Hamilton Abreu 19:39, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

How do I convert a Mediawiki page to HTML
How do I convert a mediawiki page to HTML? 71.100.1.71 12:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * See Extension:DumpHTML. — Matěj Grabovský 20:23, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Saving pages in Wiki; possible statistics

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.26
 * URL:


 * Is it possible for user to save different Wiki articles as one pdf-file or other file for printing? Or how to do it possible in MediaWiki?
 * Is it possible to make user specific statistics, e.g. to see from which country the changes were made?

Thank you!

—193.103.148.88 09:26, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * For the first part, I think you may want Extension:Collection; for the second part, you'll need to use a web analytics software such as Piwik with Extension:Piwik Integration. i Alex  12:23, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

WMF branch sync with trunk

 * MediaWiki version: 1.16wmf4 (r65931)

What's up with the WMF branch? When are updates to the trunk moved to the WMF branch? I see that there are issues fixed in the trunk for a couple of weeks now, but still not in effect in the WMF branch. (Referring to the English wikipedia here.)

Thanks, -Nageh 08:29, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Only few revisions from trunk are merged in the WMF branch (generally important fixes). You will have to wait until next full software update to have these fixes live on Wikipedia (don't ask me when this will happen; I don't know). i Alex  12:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Red_Hat_Linux

 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

The advice on the above page is about useless, RHL hasn't been around for years having beeen replaced by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and CentOS) and Fedora.

A document that does not cover installing mediawiki and keeping SELInux enabled isn't going to get it installed as securely as it might be.

Documentation addressing RHEL 4,5 and the forthcoming 6 (and CentOS), plus Fedora 12 (11 will become unsupported shortly) and 13 (nearing release) would be useful

—58.6.192.22 07:14, 16 May 2010 (UTC) John Summerfield j20100516@js.id.au