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Page Linking Help Needed
Hi, is there a plugin that automatically links key words to other Wiki pages? At the moment I am manually creating links but I'm sure there must be another way?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Mediawiki Appliance Version 1.13.20 Problems
Downloaded rPath Mediawiki Appliance, Running it on VMwear PLayer but can't find the localsettings.php file to edit.

Can't find much documentation. Any help or documentation would be great!

Extension Licensing Guidelines
I was wondering if there were licensing guidelines for extensions. I am combined several extensions with MediaWiki and noticed that some of the extensions have licenses that are incompatible with other extensions (e.g. Affero v.3 with a majority of extensions under GPL v.2). There are also several extensions that have no license indicated--is there a default license if you are coding for combination with MediaWiki? I was wondering if there was already guidance or if there could be some written on these topics. Thanks.

What have I do?
I had to start new MediaWiki 1.15.0rc1 Installation but received:


 * Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list.


 * Checking environment...

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.


 * PHP 5.2.6 installed
 * Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite
 * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
 * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * Session save path (/var/lib/php/session) appears to be valid.
 * PHP's memory_limit is 32M.
 * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
 * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
 * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * Installation directory: /usr/local/www/name_of_site.com/www
 * Script URI path: Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function taint in /usr/local/www/name_of_site.com/www/config/index.php on line 1905


 * You have files from two different versions, or something has defined function istainted but not taint. – Nikerabbit 17:07, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

mySQL database username

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5.1.33

I am configuring MediaWiki, except the one part I am having problems with is when it is asking me for a database username and password and confirm password. Below that is the superuser account, which is root.

>>>''Granting user permissions... Query "GRANT DELETE,INSERT,SELECT,UPDATE,CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON `wikidb`.* TO 'username'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' " failed with error code "Can't find file: 'user' (errno: 2) (localhost)".'' <<<<

But it will not let me continue the configuration unless I specify a user and password since it will not let me leave it blank.

I am installing on Windows XP, just need some help with this issue. I am not very familiar with databases, i know the root user account info, but it is asking for a username and password and confirm password.

Any help would be much appreciated.

homerm@rosedale.ca

What server variables are needed
My neywork admin needs to set server variables to allow the upload to be successful...

Trying to load to www.high12.org,

current php and all info can be seen at www.high12.org/phpinfo.php

currently receive "?"s when attempt to load php is made...admin requesting server settings needed

attempted to register for the forum but never receive conformation email...so hear i am.

Problems with MediaWiki 1.15.1 and ParserFunctions Extension
Hello, I just installed MediaWiki 1.15.1 on my server. Then I installed the ParserFunctions Extension following instruction at Extension:ParserFunctions (using the REL1_15_1 branch). Now the problem is that ParserFunctions is not working (the statements are printed and not interpreted) and Special:Version gives me 500 internal server error. What's the problem? What should I do? Thanks very much. --Dom De Felice 12:53, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * See how to debug. Max Semenik 08:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

How to get an Infobox OS in a wiki page ???
I don't get working the template Infobox OS on my wiki http://sys-linux.yi.org/wiki/index.php/SYS error: template loop detected

This Infobox OS is on all wiki pages about Linux distros, p.ex on the wiki page of Slackware, Debian etc.

I had an article in the oficial wiki where was such an Infobox, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYS_(operating_system)

The article long time was good, Today however a troll / auto-denominated 'editor' messed up the article completely. I block now wikipedia / redirect it to softpedia in all browsers for the users of that distro, in /etc/host the new 'snapshot' install-DVD and future versions of the distro, and I setted up my own wiki about the distro..

However, I have that problem with the templat Infobox OS what don't work. Perhaps someone can fix this.

W.L.
 * Manual:FAQ. Max Semenik 08:13, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Template Newbie
99.253.86.157 20:34, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I am a owner of the MediaWiki software and I am looking to know how to create templates?
 * Is it at all possible to copy someone else's templates Example: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates#Copying_from_one_wiki_to_another?

Database requirements
Can I use SQL 2005/2007 that is being used for Sharepoint on tha same server instead if MySQL? Or is MYSql required for MediaWiki?

—67.211.234.98 20:24, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * MSSQL support is currently under development, not ready for practical use. MySQL and Postgres are recommended for 1.15.1. It also supports SQLite and Oracle, but they have some rough angles that will be fixed in 1.16. IBM DB2 is also supported, but I don't know how well it works in practice. Max Semenik 20:41, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Config/LocalSettings.php

 * MediaWiki version: MediaWiki 1.15.0
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version: PostgresSQL 8.4
 * URL:

I am trying to run MediaWiki 1.15.0, but I keep on receiving the message:

Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file to the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.

You should change file permissions for LocalSettings.php as required to prevent other users on the server reading passwords and altering configuration data.

What am I supposed to do now? Please explain this to me in layman terms.

—RJSegel 08:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You should do exactly what it says: move LocalSettings.php from config/ to its parent directory (where index.php and api.php reside). Max Semenik 08:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Installation instructions for Fedora are out of date

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

The installation instructions for Mediawiki on Fedora suggest that recent versions of Fedora do not provide an installer for mediawiki-math and they go on to provide alternate instructions. That information is obsolete. FC10 and FC11, at least, provide mediawiki-math. In fact, if you just execute

yum install mediawiki

you will also get mediawiki-math and mediawiki-nomath along with it (they will be "installed for dependencies").

—207.224.38.246 16:44, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Jim