Manual:$wgUseTrackbacks

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$wgUseTrackbacks enables blog-style [http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec trackback] support if set to true in .

When MediaWiki receives a trackback ping, a box will show up at the bottom of the article containing a link to the originating page.

The link format can be customized by editing MediaWiki:Trackbackexcerpt.

However, MediaWiki does not support sending trackback pings.

Form MediaWiki version 1.18 to 1.19 one also needed to 1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:User rights|assign relevant user groups the "trackback" right to enable this feature.