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MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

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IT Documentation with MediaWiki

We are looking for ways in which to further enhance our documentation and our ability to allow easy access to the information as well as editing the information. With these ideas in mind, we created an internal wiki based upon the MediaWiki…
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MediaWiki slow save of edited pages

I have MediaWiki 1.16.2 on a the following LAMP platform, which performs quite good for other apps on a 16 GB RAM dual processor machine: CentOS 5.7 (64-bit) Apache 2.2.3 MySQL 5.0.77 PHP 5.1.6 It seems to depend somewhat on the used browser, but…
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What tips do you have for speeding up (performance of) a MediaWiki installation?

We have a MediaWiki installation and are getting complaints that it is becoming slower. How can we increase the speed / performance? I have one tip (which I'll add below) but I'm really interested in hearing more. Preferably one tip per answer.
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How to reset/flush a MediaWiki?

I have a fresh MediaWiki installation that I would like to make some mass import tests on from another wiki. I will expect that my first tries will fail, and I end up with I have inserted 500 pages with broken images and such. Question So is there a…
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MediaWiki on MS SQL Server

I've been doing some digging on running mediawiki on sql server instead of MySQL, but haven't come across any concrete information. All of our servers are running SQL Server so I'd like to stick with that. I've tried Screwturn wiki, which is an…
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PHP/Apache POST limit?

I'm trying to edit large (200KB or so) articles on my MediaWiki install, but doing so gives me this error: Request Entity Too Large The requested resource /path/to/my/wiki/index.php does not allow request data with POST requests, or the amount of…
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What is the optimum way to secure a company wide wiki?

We have a wiki which is used by over half our company. Generally it has been very positively received. However, there is a concern over security - not letting confidential information fall into the wrong hands (i.e. competitors). The default answer…
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HSTS header not being sent though rule is present and mod_headers is enabled

We enabled HSTS in httpd.conf in the Virtual Host handling port 443. We tried with and without the : Header set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=10886400; includeSubDomains" But the…
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Need help trouble shooting high CPU usage by PHP-fpm

There is a problem that is driving me crazy. After the day I tried to fix the CPU usage problem of my VPS, the CPU load has grown from 60% to 150%, and I have no idea what causes the problem. Please help me. I had installed a copy of mediawiki on a…
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MySQL export tables with prefix from Unix command line

I want to export certain tables from one database and import them to another. The tables in question are used for my MediaWiki installation and are prefixed with "wiki_". I do not have access to phpMyAdmin, but I am able to connect to the server via…
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How to make MediaWiki search work better?

The basic search capabilities of MediaWiki (at least, the version we're running - 1.7.1) are pretty poor. I'd like to improve them with an extension, but there are a lot of options and I'd like to have a good starting point. For what it's worth, the…
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Multiple instances of MediaWiki on one server

We need to run several MediaWiki Wikis, that need totally separate user accounts, on the one server. What would be the better solution: Use separate source code and use namespaces in the database. Use the same source code along the lines of this,…
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How to properly backup mediawiki database (mysql) without messing up the data?

I want to backup a mediawiki database stored in a MySQL server 5.1.36 using mysqldump. Most of the wiki articles are written in spanish and a don't want to mess up with it by creating the dump with the wrong character set. mysql>…
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Is it possible to mirror a MediaWiki article from another wiki?

I have two MediaWiki installations on two different domains, both on the same server but with different databases. Is there a feature or extension that will allow me to automatically mirror the contents of one wiki to the other, and have the…
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MediaWiki not displaying style -- "Internal error"

I just upgraded a MediaWiki installation from version 1.25.x to 1.26.1, but now the styling information is not displaying. Hence, the page displays all text-like without the links column at the left. When I view the source of the page and click on…
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