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Mediawiki and mySQL collations. MySite with Wikipedia (Thanks, mediawiki, get content) MediaWiki Importing fails with error. Main Page. MediaWiki Help? Mediawiki Home Page Help. Mediawiki categories. I concur about the lack of support at - are they just overloaded or what?

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If they'd open the support wiki to be a little more lenient to contributors like you and I, there's be way more support stuff. Messy? Sure. Helpful? ONLY if there's tons of information! Categories in Mediawiki are not automated in any way. I'm not sure what you want, but I want self building automatic "table of contents" pages (by category) that grow as new pages in the categories they refer to grow. ** special:allpages | Article index** special:allpages/Category: | Category index** special:allpages/Talk: | Discussion/talk index I of course had to manually type in something identifying like ...[ [ category:blah-blah-blah ] ] in at the bottom of the text area for all article pages I then want to be listed in [ [ special:allpages/Category: | Category index ] ], and for me, it's not the same category for each article.

Subpage List 2 automatically creates a list of the subpages of a page Martin Schallnahs, Rob Church. MediaWiki namespace. Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace[edit] Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace now is a redirect to Help:MediaWiki namespace.

MediaWiki namespace

This might be due to some merges with this or other articles. This is a bad idea, since "Wikipedia" namespace is for general information (and other things), while "Help" namespace is for technical help.In Help:MediaWiki namespace is some general information which should be moved (for example the history section. There might be more on other relevant "Wikipedia:"-pages (like guidelines regarding talk pages) or in the history of the redirects. How to add to mediawiki? Mediawiki-l. Communication. There are several ways to get in contact with other MediaWiki users or to get instant help.

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Landing These are good first steps: Register and add some info about yourself in your user page.Follow the News and our social media channels.Subscribe to wikitech-announce to receive email notifications about new activities.Join #mediawikiconnect IRC channel and perhaps more.Make sure you have an email confirmed and email notifications enabled in your mediawiki.org preferences. "Watch" (click the star icon of) the pages you want to follow and perhaps contribute to.All the better if you find a MediaWiki Group that matches your location or interests! Chat #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net is the around-the-clock IRC channel for realtime communication. Please read the FAQ before asking.State your problem immediately and wait for a response. If you don't get an answer, this could mean one of a number of things: Nobody was around at the time of day you chose. Mailing lists Get in contact! Blog Newsletter Websites.

Mediawiki:HELP. From Mediawiki:HELP Template:TutorialTOC Template:Tutorial Talk pages are a key feature of the wiki, offering the ability to discuss articles and other issues with other users .

Mediawiki:HELP

Talk pages If you want to ask a question about an article, or you have a concern or comment, you can put a note in the article's talk page . You do that by clicking the "discussion" tab at the top of the page. Don't worry if the link shows up in red; it's ok to create the talk page if it doesn't already exist. When you post a new comment, put it at the bottom of the talk page. You should sign your comments by typing ~~~ for just your username, or ~~~~ for your username and a time signature (see the example discussion below). You can get a username by creating an account (it's free).

User talk pages Every user has a user talk page, on which other users can leave messages. You can reply in either of two ways. Indenting Indenting can improve the layout of a discussion considerably, making it much easier to read. Hi. Wikipedia's Wiki Engine. MediaWiki. MediaWiki Forums.