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Previous page history was archived for backup purposes at Project:Support desk/LQT Archive 1 on 2015-07-30.

Hello,

I am having trouble logging into my account on microbewiki. When I went to reset the password the first time, the password worked on logging me into media wiki but not microbewiki. I waited 24 hours to try again and this time I never received an email to reset my password and the microbewiki re-set password page is saying I have to wait another 24 hours to request a new password. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

How show and see statistics in Other stats "Words in all content pages"

Looking at mediawiki-extensions-CirrusSearch/blob/master/i18n/en.json, it would appear that the "Words in all content pages" in Other statistics from the Special:Statistics page, requires Extension:CirrusSearch.

How to make Title only Home_Page? pls i need this

Wikipedia also has a title on the main page.

Which page exactly are you talking about? It would help if you can provide the link.

I believe @Justruslan is talking about the actual <title> element on the FP of en.wikipedia.org.

yes, only home page title how to make?

I don't know and I couldn't find the answer when I looked. Maybe ask on the talk page there if no one else offers an idea here?

MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage (from Topic:U0bv4x8imbj1001t).

thank you! ♥

In edit api, how do i add section without a title to someones talk page, while using a non-empty edit summary? i'm welcoming using a script, and the {{welcome}} template already has a heading.

Please let me know if a phabricator ticket should be added about this.

You should probably just grab the contents of the page and use them in your edit. If you'd like you can create a phabricator task to have the api add a section without a heading.

When I go to my url for the virtual host it says

LocalSettings.php not found.

Please complete the installation and download LocalSettings.php.

So I click "complete the installation" and it says this

"[XA0Qik1sQDXV2zZfZex@LAAAAAY] /mw-config/index.php MWException from line 1387 of /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/parser/Preprocessor_DOM.php: PPFrame_DOM::expand: Invalid parameter type

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php(2942): PPFrame_DOM->expand(NULL, integer)

#1 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php(1293): Parser->replaceVariables(string)

#2 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php(443): Parser->internalParse(string)

#3 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/installer/Installer.php(695): Parser->parse(string, Title, ParserOptions, boolean)

#4 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(704): Installer->parse(string, boolean)

#5 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/installer/WebInstallerLanguage.php(81): WebInstaller->getHelpBox(string)

#6 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(281): WebInstallerLanguage->execute()

#7 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/mw-config/index.php(79): WebInstaller->execute(array)

#8 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/mw-config/index.php(38): wfInstallerMain()

#9 {main}"

Can anybody help please. I would greatly appreciate it.

Weird. Could you run rpm -q -a | grep ^php and tell me what it says?

Could you download an older version (1.30.1, for example) and see if you have the same problem?

Is there any thread discussions extension that works well with SQLite?

Since I'm using SQLite, I can't use Structured Discussions.

Is it able to override MediaWiki core interface messages with extension?

Yes, but it's a mess. The WikimediaMessages extension does that for Wikimedia.

How can I do that? I put messages to override on en.json and ko.json but it doesn't override messages that already exists.

You'll need to define the new key/values with a different key, and write some code hanging off the appropriate hook – e.g. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages/+/master/WikimediaMessages.hooks.php#15 is how we intercept most keys, replacing foo with wikimedia-foo dynamically.

Is is able to make phpMussel scan when a user uploads a file?

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads#Configuring_file_types says "think about enabling virus scans for uploads" but not how. :) If you find out feel free to improve the documentation, please!

Manual:$wgAntivirusSetup.

Don't know whether it will work with PHP based phpMussel or not, though.

Where is the link to contribute to the support of Wiki?

Ways to Give (Donate.Wikimedia).

I would really like to have wiki account and all of the knowledge that comes with it.

Yes , I'm having trouble signing in and I haven't ever done anything to have this type of treatment.

Nobody can help if you do not explain the "trouble". What exact steps did you do on which exact website (address) and what happened (error message?) after which step?