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Required PHP version mentioned is wrong at system requirements
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Hello, I see a possible bug on this page at the system requirements. On this page it says "MediaWiki requires PHP 5.2.3+". I think this should be "MediaWiki requires PHP 5.3.2+" as on the main installation paragraph it says at the system requirements that it needs at least PHP version 5.3.2. So the 2 and the 3 are problably swapped by mistake. 195.241.126.132 10:04, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, indeed some documentation here appears to be messed up somehow. It is PHP 5.2.3+, except for PHP 5.3.1. I will try to rectify this. Cheers [[kgh]] (talk) 10:39, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
- A few things are messed up. This page says 5.3.2+, but this other page says 5.2.3 is okay. I just tried to upgrade my mediawiki install to 1.20, and I get an error saying that PHP 5.3.2 is required. Jars99 (talk) 06:19, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- That page needs to be updated when the final release of 1.20 comes out, as 1.20's release notes do indeed say it'll need 5.3+ Jasper Deng (talk) 07:05, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- The pages were rectified in the meantime, now that 1.20 was released. [[kgh]] (talk) 15:12, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- That page needs to be updated when the final release of 1.20 comes out, as 1.20's release notes do indeed say it'll need 5.3+ Jasper Deng (talk) 07:05, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- A few things are messed up. This page says 5.3.2+, but this other page says 5.2.3 is okay. I just tried to upgrade my mediawiki install to 1.20, and I get an error saying that PHP 5.3.2 is required. Jars99 (talk) 06:19, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Class=mediawiki dont work correct
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This post by Nemo bis was moved on 2012-08-15. You can find it at Project:Support desk/Flow/2012/08#h-Class=mediawiki_dont_work_correct-2012-08-15T10:31:00.000Z. Nemo 10:34, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Translation
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Can we make this page translatable? Nemo 13:57, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Adding links to Software bundles and hosting services
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Hi all,
I think it's a good idea to add links to Software_bundles and Hosting_services to inform users about possible alternative ways to install MediaWiki. I wanted to ask if that sound reasonable? Also, what would be a good location on the page for that? My idea was to add a "Alternative ways to install" section above Installation assistance, but it doesn't seem very visible. I imagine most people won't even go that far down in the page. Any thoughts? Mitevam (talk) 09:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
- The two links you propose are the two links already offered at "Alternative ways to install", aren't they.
- About the visibility, I agree. A sim[ple way to solve it would be to have a first paragraph in the page along these lines:
- These instructions refer to the officially supported MediaWiki installation process. If you are looking for alternatives check the pre-integrated MediaWiki software appliances or hosting services with 1-click installation products. Qgil (talk) 21:36, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, those are the two links. No objected so I added them. A first paragraph seemed like pushing it a little bit, so I moved the section up right under the latest release. Mitevam (talk) 13:05, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Discussion: Whether or not we should how to "shallow" clone the repository
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I was unsure, whether it makes sense to add in section Download#Development releases the following:
By using the depth parameter as shown in the following, you can download a "shallow" clone which saves bytes, bandwidth and time, [but can lead to problems if you are developer, because earlier commits might be required but are missing when you want update using "git pull"]:
git clone --depth 1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git
LTS version is not listed on download page
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Despite its recent release, the latest LTS version 1.19.7 is not listed on the download page. Shouldn't this be listed?
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.tar.gz 50.196.24.121 17:30, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
- Yep, I just added the link to the legacy releases section. Thank you for noticing. Cheers [[kgh]] (talk) 20:09, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
The connection was reset
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This post by Wargo was moved on 2013-10-13. You can find it at Project:Support desk/Flow/2012/05#h-The_connection_was_reset-2012-05-26T12:06:00.000Z. wargo (talk) 14:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
Downloads appear to be down
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I cant download mediawiki 98.195.57.200 00:38, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
- Which one? Works for me. Nemo 08:09, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Languages transcluded twice
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This page really looks bad after its transition to TUX. It will be cool if somebody removed the second transclusion of languages. I believe it comes from the embedded translatable template but do not know how to fix this. [[kgh]] (talk) 10:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Nothing to do with TUX, Template:DownloadMediaWiki's languages list had to be noinclude'd. Someone had added translate tags and I didn't want to revert but then I was forced to mark for translation in order to transclude it. Now someone needs to import the old translations (as should have been done for this page too, no idea why it was not). Nemo 14:40, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, cool I thought it must have been something trivial and I am sorry for the blaming TUX. Thanks for your help and insight! [[kgh]] (talk) 14:45, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Now Ata is importing the old translations and Ciencia Al Poder kindly fixed an error in the template that I had overlooked (blindly trusting the previous editors...).[1] Nemo 10:37, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- I guess this is online collaboration at it's best. Thanks for following up. :) [[kgh]] (talk) 12:40, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- Now Ata is importing the old translations and Ciencia Al Poder kindly fixed an error in the template that I had overlooked (blindly trusting the previous editors...).[1] Nemo 10:37, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, cool I thought it must have been something trivial and I am sorry for the blaming TUX. Thanks for your help and insight! [[kgh]] (talk) 14:45, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
scribunto error message on this page
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Hello, just downloading mediawiki to try out installing on a USB today (it sounded like fun at the time). I thought that I'd mention that there appears to be some kind of error message on this page just below the system requirements paragraph:
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module `Module:Category handler/data' not found.
Backtrace:
[C]: in function "error"
package.lua:80: in function "load"
package.lua:99: ?
(tail call): ?
mw.lua:493: in function "executeModule"
mw.lua:764: in function "loadData"
Module:Category_handler:249: in function "categoryHandler"
Module:Message_box:484: in function "setBoxParameters"
Module:Message_box:625: ?
(tail call): ?
mw.lua:518: ?
[C]: in function "expandTemplate"
mw.lua:313: ?
(tail call): ?
mw.lua:518: ?
Cheers. -77.96.94.164 21:08, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Remove PHP4 mentions?
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- Should we really remove all PHP4 mentions now? It's ancient... siebrand (talk) 16:32, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
- + 1 [[kgh]] (talk) 16:50, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
- It is done. siebrand (talk) 17:09, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Git: not just for devs
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For some time now I have been using git to grab particular releases (wmf.x) for my corporate wiki. As far as I can tell, I am basically doing what the biggest users of this software are doing (on a rather smaller scale) and gaining the benefit of getting arguably the best supported version at a point in time and the most functionality.
I've pretty much got updates to the: *yawn*, do it (whilst having a glass of wine) with minimal downtime.
I have pretty complete docs for installation and updating using git (--depth=1) and a system of symlinking to avoid nasty surprises and make switching from one version to the next very rapid whilst providing a way back.
Anyone have any problems with me pushing git installs on this page as a reasonable way to install the software beyond simply for development? Gerdesj (talk) 00:24, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
- No, at least I do not have any issues with this. Perhaps you could create a dedicated subpage describing your process and link to it from here just to avoid this page to get crowded. [[kgh]] (talk) 01:12, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, a subpage would be a good idea. Gerdesj (talk) 02:16, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
- I'd say go for it! :) [[kgh]] (talk) 23:48, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
- User:Gerdesj/GIT Install - work in progress. When I've dusted down the basics I'll move it into place Gerdesj (talk) 12:03, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Verifying downloads with signatures
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It says there are signatures to verify the downloads, but there are no instructions about how to do the verification.
I found this link helpful: https://httpd.apache.org/dev/verification.html
I'm not sure if it would be good to add it to the page or not. Ideally we should write basic instructions so they can be translated. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 21:47, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah, a very good idea. This would help enable a wider audience to do this.
- Composer found a smart way of verification. [[kgh]] (talk) 22:14, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
- Please this is a waste of time John sizoro (talk) 06:12, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Answer this Question Please ! Because I want to Install Mediawiki 1.30.0
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I Can Download Mediawiki 1.30.0 without Paying Money ? Because I have no money for Mediawiki 1.30.0 Simple Lang Ako (talk) 12:20, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- Quoting Download:
- MediaWiki is free software licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Because MediaWiki is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Read the full text of the GNU GPL version 2 for details.
- (Emphasis mine) —Mainframe98 talk 12:25, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- And, you should download MediaWiki 1.31, not MediaWiki 1.30. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:33, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
Is 1.31. an LTS release?
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It says so on the version lifecycle page. I didn't yet dare to include it on the download page, where there is only legacy, stable OR LTS (not stable AND LTS). Zabien (talk) 13:24, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
- It is an LTS. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 00:15, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- but why doesn't [[Download]] say that it's an LTS? DonPaolo (talk) 11:34, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Done Shirayuki (talk) 12:10, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
"Installing some external dependencies (e.g. via composer) is required."
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It is quite common for web hotels to only handle zip archives. We only provide gz compressed tar archives, thus the archives has to be recompressed before uploading. This souldn't be much of a hurdle, but it seems like some archive tools occasionally fails to include all files in large archives. This happen at least in Ubuntus fileroller, but reports it might imply it also happen to other tools. When this happen the vendor folder is left out, leaving the user with a rather non-explanatory error message "Installing some external dependencies (e.g. via composer) is required."
Without a proper investigation, only assumptions, it seems like some of the gui tools tries to select the actual files when an archive is created. For a gui tool this makes sense. This selection is then feed into the actual archive command. Between the actual selection and the archive operation there can be a race condition, as the selection isn't quite done and archive operation is started. This will happen if the pending selection is large enough, our archive contains ~14k files, and then the created archive will be incomplete. In our case this will typically lead to a missing or incomplete vendor folder.
Check the zip archive before it is uploaded to the web hotel, and verify that it includes the vendor folder. If not recreate the zip archive, and give whatever gui tool necessary time to select all files.
A quite simple fix could be to provide the archive in several formats. That would avoid the extraneous recreation step, and less people would stumble into this "bug". Jeblad (talk) 04:57, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Which version of mediawiki can be intergated with visualeditor easily?
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Now, I can download 1.33.0 stable or 1.31.3 LTS. But I also want to use visualeditor plugin, Could anyone can tell me how to choose a proper version for me? I am a newer and I am using win10 as my local server with xampp. Thanks a lot. . 103.90.76.112 (talk) 08:53, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
- VisualEditor should work with either version. If this is just on your local server, I would probably use 1.33 for now. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:32, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
Why isn't there a version of Mediawiki installer available with Visual Editor 'preinstalled'?
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Hi
I would like to help set up a wiki for a charity and being a regular Wikipedia editor I know how useful Visual Editor is. However the instructions to install Visual Editor all kinds of complicated and scary compared to installed MediaWiki. Would it be possible/how much extra work would it be to providea version of the MediaWiki installer which included VE?
Thanks :) John Cummings (talk) 19:45, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- The instructions are 'scary' because it is complicated. In a few years it might be simpler, but that is not likely any time soon, sorry. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 20:11, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- That's a disappointing perspective. I'm sure if enough people are frustrated they will make downloading it simple. John Cummings, do you have/know a contact inside Wikipedia who could change the downloading process? It didn't download for me, either.
2604:6000:1412:416C:181E:D417:7A7A:EB7E (talk) 15:49, 4 December 2019 (UTC)- The instructions aren't just "scary," they're lacking, vague on specific steps necessary to get it all to work. WhitWye (talk) 20:16, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
The Download entries are to .sig files
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Please fix the links so as to download the installation files, not the signatures. WhitWye (talk) 20:14, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
- I have worked on the page to make things more clear - hopefully. [[kgh]] (talk) 07:44, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
1.33 is not a LTS
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In the section "To users of MediaWiki versions 1.30 and earlier" it says "MediaWiki 1.33.2 (download) - long-term support (LTS)". As of Version_lifecycle this is not true. Can somebody fix that please? Osnard (talk) 06:53, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Good catch. Thanks for the note. Done. [[kgh]] (talk) 07:32, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
PHP >7.4.2?
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I see where 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 is not compatible, but I'm about to upgrade from 7.0.33 to 7.4.5. Can someone verify PHP >7.4.2 is good? Lorenmaxwell (talk) 20:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
- 7.4.3 works ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 21:23, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Extracting a .tar.gz on Windows
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- Using 7zip for extracting the downloaded .tar.gz does not work. I ran into this issue myself and found a thread by someone who had the same problem: Project:Support desk/Flow/2020/06#h-Extract_tar.gz_on_Windows-2020-06-29T14:26:00.000Z Using the tar command that was brought over to Windows 10 a few releases ago did work, though. This download help page should be updated accordingly. Itschotsch (talk) 17:49, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- thanks @Itschotsch!
- btw, tar is on board since Windows 10 build 17063 [1] (so since 21 Dec 2017[2])
- [1]: https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/use-tar-on-windows-10/
- [2]: https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-build-17063-pc-everything-you-need-know Berot3 (talk) 18:54, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for this comment, I came here to do the same.
- It's disappointing to discover that no action has yet been taken on something so fundamental.
- I have wasted two days trusting the instructions as they stand. Aunk05 (talk) 08:47, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
"MW stable release number" (when 1.36) isn't "stable, current long-term support"
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I've made one change, to Template:DownloadMediaWiki (see Project:Support desk/Flow/2021/05#h-LTS_version?-2021-05-30T16:43:00.000Z) but there are other parts of the Download page to change too. I apologise if I didn't do the edit correctly. Jonathan3 (talk) 22:29, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
No Signature download link for 1.35
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There is no link in the signature download section for MW 1.35 and the MW 1.36 is marked as Stable LTS which is incorrect Hcadby (talk) 20:22, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
What this media all about
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MediaWiki what is all about? Ufs.ac (talk) 05:57, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- See What is MediaWiki? – Ammarpad (talk) 08:03, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- Manual:What is MediaWiki?* Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 14:06, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
Statistic
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How often has been Mediawiki downloaded until now. Is there somewhere a page with information about that. I currently want to get a overview about how much software that is partly developed by volunteers is used. Hogü-456 (talk) 21:45, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
- I don't know if download counts would give you meaningful information about software usage. Note some hosting companies offer one-click installs and other solutions offer bundled software. Also, it may be available from linux distros.
- WikiApiary has stats of live wikis using MediaWiki. https://wikistats.wmcloud.org/ may also be useful to get numbers on wikis inside wikifarms. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:14, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
1.35 not available
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I can see that there is no link to download 1.35, but the link for 1.39 appears twice. The parapgrahps under the links doesn't make sense neither:
- MediaWiki 1.39.1 (download .zip, download .tar.gz) - stable
- MediaWiki 1.38.5 (download .zip, download .tar.gz) - legacy
- MediaWiki 1.39.1 (download .zip, download .tar.gz) - long-term support (LTS)
To users of MediaWiki versions version 1.36, 1.37 and 1.34 and earlier: These versions are no longer supported. Please update to a newer version of MediaWiki.
I think that the third link (second time refering to 1.39.1) should point to 1.35.5 as the LTS, right? 94.73.32.14 (talk) 22:28, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
- lol we had this wrong since the release of 1.39 it seems...
- I think I've fixed it Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:00, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
- It is fixed (I am the original user). Thanks! 37.29.154.197 (talk) 06:40, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
1.39.x status
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1.39.4 is labeled "legacy", but according to MediaWiki 1.39, "MediaWiki 1.39 is the current long-term support release of MediaWiki." (emphasis mine). I tried changing it myself, but there were so many nested templates that I had to give up😔 Sebastian Berlin (WMSE) (talk) 09:23, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
- Done. Apparently only Template:DownloadMediaWiki needs to be updated, commenting / uncommenting the relevant lines, to avoid invalidating translated texts. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 15:08, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
how to install
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I am looking for basic instructions on how to install MediaWiki. I downloaded Mediaiwiki 1.41.1. Now what? I am using a PC with windows. 174.86.64.132 (talk) 19:40, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
OH MY GOSH
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I finally succussed after 3 months of failure! I am so happy now. Acnh Player (talk) 05:34, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
206 partial content on the download server
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It is very disappointing that the seemingly *only* official source for MediaWiki releases, releases.wikimedia.org, requires client to support 206 partial content downloads.
Any client that cannot handle such chunked downloads will result in a truncated (=garbage) download.
I would like to see this configuration changed so that minimal clients could download MediaWiki releases. 2405:AA00:0:3001:0:0:0:1 (talk) 10:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- A 206 response code should only be sent if your request contains a Range header. If you're seeing a 206 response code without sending a Range header, that's a bug, and we will need more details in order to isolate it. Tim Starling (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2024 (UTC)