Project:Support desk

Welcome to the MediaWiki Support desk, where you can ask MediaWiki questions!

(Read this message in a different language)

See also

• Other places to ask for help

Before you post

• Check the basic How does MediaWiki work? guide.
• Check the FAQ and Errors and symptoms .
• If your question is about a specific feature, check the relevant technical manual , end-user help or extension page and consider asking on its talk page .
• For issues about the mediawiki.org website, report to Village Pump instead.
• For trying out wiki editing, use the Sandbox instead.

Post a new question

1. To help us answer your questions, please indicate which versions you are using, as found on your wiki's Special:Version page:
   • MediaWiki version
   • PHP version
   • Database type and version
2. Please include the web address (URL) to your wiki if possible. It's often easier for us to identify the source of the problem if we can see the error directly.
3. To start a new thread, click "Start a new topic".

After installing the media wiki script, a few questions will be asked during the registration that the name of Wikipedia is mentioned. Shouldn't this name change the name of the site?

For example, I started WikiDM, instead of asking questions about WikiDM, it asks questions about Wikipedia.

Please see "Post a new question" in the sidebar.

The install should never ask any questions about wikipedia at all. Although it might use the phrase "your wiki" (wiki being a generic noun).

What is the exact text it is asking you think should be changed?

You can go to wikidm.org, and check in the registration section that all questions are related to Wikipedia. I would also like to say that this happens in Persian, I did not study in English.

Did you set up and run wikidm.org? If so, which steps where (URL) did you follow?

Why is extension:WikimediaMessages installed on this wiki?

Would I be able to ask someone to write an article for our group we just don’t have the know how and it’s a very good potential article I just need help to write it

This is not the place to ask. You could try asking at w:WP:Teahouse or somewhere like that, but its unlikely someone will just write an article for you.

Please also be aware of w:WP:COI

I seem to run into an issue where templates nested to a certain depth don't display... what is that number, and can I change it? (i.e. if its default is set to 3, can I go to 4?)

ex:

Page>All Items for sale > each item > each item details

Manual:$wgMaxTemplateDepth. Default is 100 so maybe your issue is something else? If you view html source there should be a comment saying all the limits.

Thanks. It was all the onlyinclude/includeonly tags messing things up. I think I've got it sorted out now.

I have a template that includes a 'citation' parameter. That parameter might contain {{cite web|title=website}} or {{cite book|title=book}}.

I would like to use this parameter two different ways in the template. First, I want to display the text exactly as it is: {{cite book|title=book}}. Secondly, I would like to actually invoke the cite template to format the citation as a citation.

I can't figure out how to get it to display exactly as entered in the parameter: {{cite book|title=book}}. Ideally, I would prefer it to display as code using the <code> tag.

Its not possible. At best you could (with scribunto) load the wikitext of the original page and try to find the template invocation (i dont reccomend this).

You could of course make the parameter be not a template and just the template name.

See also phab:T322513

Whenever I try to log into any mediawiki hosted wiki, I receive an "incorrect username or password" error. I have verified that I am using the correct username and password, it persists across browsers, it persists in incognito mode, it persists across devices.

Any assistance is welcome.

How did you verify that you have "correct username and password" in the first place.

Typed to separate notepad, pasted both here and the wikis in question. Worked here, did not work at the wikis.

What is the wiki in question?

When a user doesn't have the correct permissions to edit a page on my site a 'permissions error' shows. How do I edit the text for this permissions error?

Add ?uselang=qqx to the url where you are seeing the error message. In place of the error message, you'll see a string like "user-permission-denied". That tells you that you can use the page MediaWiki:user-permission-denied on your own wiki to change what that message says.

Eu não entendi, uselang=qqx?

Dear Support, I'd either like to change my username or delete my editing account and create another with my new desired user name. Thanks, Terry.

Please follow instructions at meta:Changing username

Dear Ciencia AI Poder, I'll follow the link, thank you very much. Kind regards, Terry ;-)

according to the manual : "DPL lists are automatically updated whenever said data changes." but I have to edit and save a page with DPL pattern to force all DPL lists to update.

In the DPL3 page on this wiki : "by default all output is cached for a period of one hour to reduce the need to rerun the query every page load"

Is it possible to force DPL3 to refresh lists when users add or edit pages ?

I see this question in this support desk, in the DPL3 talk page and in other forums from almost 7 years without seeing an answer. I don't see any counter-indications on a small wiki that doesn't allow public editing

I run a bot through paws. How can I set it to run automatically every day or every week? Thanks!

You should use Toolforge. Read Toolforge quickstart

@Ammarpad Can this be done using paws? I don't like using Toolforge...

In you original post you said you're already using PAWS to run a bot. So what are you asking now?

PAWS does not currently provide cron or other scheduling engines, so your only option there is manual execution. As Ammarpad has suggested, Toolforge would allow scheduled jobs using wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Jobs framework.

I am getting this error when I try to upload a file to my CentOS8 server. I have tried setting the path in LocalSettings as below and on both instances it does not work. All other images are rendering properly as intended, only uploads not working.

User apache has read and write rights to the temp folder

$wgEnableUploads = true;

$wgFileExtensions = array('png','gif','jpg','jpeg','ogg','mp3','svg','bmp');

$wgUseImageMagick = true;

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

$wgTmpDirectory = false;

-------Second configuration tried-------

$wgEnableUploads = true;

$wgFileExtensions = array('png','gif','jpg','jpeg','ogg','mp3','svg','bmp');

$wgUseImageMagick = true;

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

$wgTmpDirectory ="/var/www/html/w/images/temp";

Product	Version
MediaWiki	1.37.1
PHP	7.4.33 (fpm-fcgi)
MariaDB	10.3.28-MariaDB

For the second config, does /var/www/html/w/images/temp actually exist and is writable by webserver (and selinux is not preventing writing?)?

Yes apache has full read and write and even execute, see below;

drwxrwxrwx.  2 apache apache  41 Mar  2 10:34

A reboot for me solved this issue