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I can't create an account because I'm asked to solve a CAPCHA but there is nothing there. what do I do? I'm using an older computer which sometimes has trouble with newer stuff.

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Всем привет, пытаюсь установить Wikimedia:

http://10.157.5.1/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect

any help?

(UbuntuServer LTS)

Hi team, I just a new user for mediawiki. And I just start up mediawiki system in a linux server. And it can be access, but seems can't find "in other languages" section in the sidebar on the left side of the page. Please let me know if there is something I missed, thanks!

On Wikimedia wikis, this is provided by the Wikidata extension and relies on Wikidata. Please elaborate on your use cases and underlying problems you want to solve.

Hi Malyacko, could you provide the extension page link? thanks! I can't find the extension you mentioned.

Extension:Wikibase

There is also an older system built into core that requires less setup - interwiki links that have the language code as the link name help:interwiki

Hi Bawolf, I've installed Wikibase extension, and also can find the "in other languages" section. However, it seems need to install other extensions to support multi languages wiki site? could you please provide the extension link for that can enable multi languages wiki site? many thanks!

hi Bawolff, Many thanks!

Thanks for your answer! I will research the Wikidata extension, thanks!

How do I submit this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Drednm&oldid=1047182969 as an entry on Wikipedia. I can't figure it out. It seems to only show up in my profile.

Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:New_user_landing_page&page=Edward+Lorusso and follow the instructions.

I've never seen this before and it looks very off-putting. Probably that's deliberate :-) The conclusion is:

"When you create your draft, it will not be seen by external search engines. However, when you finish, you'll be able to submit it to be reviewed by our volunteers. Reviews can take a long time, so please be patient and rest assured that your draft will be reviewed in due course. This may take 7 weeks or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order."

I need help with my wiki.. I recently import some templates from wikipedia.. And some of the imported page has link from wikipedia. example below Wikipedia:How to post, Is there a way i can access all of them so i can update it to mine.

There's an "allpages" special page you could use, if I understand the question correctly.

I Have a lot of mirror link to Wikipedia. is there a way to find all the mirror link linked to other wiki

Do you mean that in the imported templates there are links to Wikipedia, and you'd like to replace them with links to your own website?

What about searching for the links using the search box? What about Special:RecentChanges or Special:Newpages? What about Extension:ReplaceText to search for the text (and probably also replace)?

Hello I dont know why if i try to import xml file above 250kb I always get

403

Forbidden

Access to this resource on the server is denied!

Check if you have a WAF or apache mod_security installed.

Check also for limitrequestbody directive in your apache config.

Your apache error log might have more info.

where do i see apache.. cause i cant find any file .....I am on hosting

That depends on your host and operating system, so it's a question for your hosting.

I want to limit a certain user account only to fix typos and add symbols such as (CONTENT), [URL LINK_TEXT] [[INTERNAL_LINK]], {{TEMPLATE_CALL}} and so forth.

I assume that in my particular website, limiting the that user account up until 500 characters per edit would be enough.

Is there any way to do so without installing any extension and without any JavaScript limitations?

Is this question different from Topic:Wil0u07fcqbxi336?

Because here I focus only on characters.

I think the answer is still No, unfortunately.

Is there a way to change the words "Content is available under..." at the bottom of the page for my wiki? I would like the words to say something else for my copyright disclaimer.

Edit `MediaWiki:Copyright` page on your wiki.

Hi. In the context of a user script, I'm wondering how I can determine if the current view is in edit (VisualEditor or source) mode. The mw.config.values.wgAction seems only partly useful when I load the editor using the User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/VisualEditorEverywhere.js (EN wiki) which loads veaction=edit and not action=edit. Thanks for any help!

Hope all are well.

Wondering if there is a page i can find extensions, specifically for version 1.31.10? Seems like all the extensions i want (i.e. wikieditor) are not compatible due to this old version and i do not want to update this version and lose all my work.

WikiEditor is definitely compatibe. You might have to download the REL1_31 branch directly from github though. https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikiEditor/archive/refs/heads/REL1_31.zip

However we strongly encourage upgrading and upgrading does not delete any data.

can you please provide me instructions on how to update? is it just simply taking a newer version of mediawiki and extracting its contents in to my server? Is there anything i would have to do to protect my content?