Manual talk:FAQ

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Previous page history was archived for backup purposes at Manual talk:FAQ/LQT Archive 1 on 2015-07-10.

I am getting tired of Fandom, how do I make wikis on this?

See Hosting services if you do not want to set up your own server

Do you need to have a hosted website accessible before downloading the software? If yes, how does the software interact with the hosted website?

I want to create a wiki where I have all the user rights on it because I created a wiki on Fandom and it only made me an administrator and bureaucrat.

You'll have to host it on your own server. Once you have a server (or your own computer), see Manual:Installation guide.

Other hosts offer more freedom than Fandom. See Hosting services

Is this working on Windows? --197.207.150.111 16:52, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

hello there. i am trying to make a wiki but there is not an option on the left bar to let us make a wiki so can you show me how?

I've created a new entry to answer your question: Manual:FAQ#How do I create a wiki?

now what?

Follow the steps provided in that answer

How can I import a pdf-file to a mediawiki page (inclusive bookmarks)?

Special:Upload on your wiki and install Extension:PdfHandler ? ~ Seb35 09:41, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

PdfHandler only show me the documents. But I need the documents as wiki pages, because we want edit this pages directly in browser.

This is quite difficult, there is no such functionality as it. Perhaps you can look at Extension:Proofread Page (used on Wikisource), but it’s not exactly what you want. This extension can retrieve text layer of DjVu files (and there are tools to convert pdf to djvu), but this is quite complicated.

Looking at the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Still_no_luck._Where_can_I_ask_for_help? section:

The link for "(try and search the archive first)" points to a domain that times out.

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki

The subscribe page for the maillist at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l points to a different URL:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/

Which is the correctlink?

GMANE was a list archive that offered search functionality. However, it has disappeared since.

The official list is https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/

It seems that many mediawiki pages / api tend to timeout and this is a frequent question and sometimes mistaken for a bug. It would be good to add something like this :

Why...

... is a page not opening within seconds?

A special page, api or page may timeout if it can't be generated within minute. While this is expected behaviour in many cases, sometimes this can be caused by software issues either with the site or with the browser.

Hi, what's definitely missing in the FAQ is an point about cookies. Due to (but not only) some of us (MedaiWiki users) lives in the EU we have to respect GDPR. That's why the FAQ IMHOhas to give answers to the following questions:

• Is MediaWiki (not the homepage mediawiki.org!) using cookies?
  • If so, are there any alternatives (to prevent using cookies)?
    • If so, where can I manage that?
  • If so, what kind of cookies does the MediaWiki use? Functional only? Tracking? Third party?
  • Is there any opportunity to inform (my) Wiki users GDPR-compliant about using cookies?

So far, I couldn't found that much information about.

• Yes and no, this article convey that it's possible to use MediaWiki without cookies. Here it is stated that different scripts have different solutions, there is no unity.
  If I log in on my Wiki and looking for cookies in the meantime, Firefox isn't show me any cookie from my site. But durig I'm writing this sentence and beeing logged in here, cookies were set.
  • see above
    • see above
  • I couldn't found anything about that.
  • Extension:CookieWarning

Do I overlooked the decisive site/article?

Best, Semmelrocks - 22:02 (21.2.2021)

There's no way to prevent cookies from being set, unless you configure your server to filter any Set-Cookie header. Then, you won't be able to login or edit pages. Those are essential cookies not used for tracking.

Also see GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and MediaWiki software for all and any GDPR related stuff

@AKlapper (WMF): Thanks for link to the GDPR site. It helps a lot! @Ciencia Al Poder: Thank you, too. But why it's not documented anywhere?

how can i upload my work in mediawiki ?

@Josephjacob esther This is too vague to be an FAQ item... Please ask on Project:Support desk and be way more specific what's the problem with your personal MediaWiki installation and what blocks you from uploading work in it. Thanks.

Please use the support desk for support questions.

(Questions moved to support desk)

@RIT RAJARSHI Hi, see the side bar: "Please do not post support questions here." Please read existing documentation (e.g. for installation) and feel free to open threads on the Support Desk instead. Thanks.

@AKlapper (WMF) No, these aren't "support" questions. These are learning related question. ~~~~

Can we know all the wikis that use mediawiki on the Internet ? Like, out from wikimedia foundation. There should be some interesting ones !

WikiApiary is a project that aims to collect information about wikis powered by MediaWiki

About the instrution to use body.page-Main_Page.action-view h1.firstHeading, body.page-Main_Page.action-submit h1.firstHeading { display: none; }, it is wrong.
My Mediawiki <body> have only "invalid page" classes: sitedir-ltr, ..., mw-special-Badtitle, page-Especial_Título_inválido, rootpage-Especial_Título_inválido.

There are no replacement for "page-Main_Page" as stated by instruction.

Do you mean every page on your wiki has mw-special-Badtitle ? That would be a bug