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==The basics==
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<span id="What_are_the_differences_between_MediaWiki,_Wikimedia,_Wikipedia,_and_wiki?"></span>
===ما هي الاختلافات بين ميدياويكي ، ويكيميديا ، ويكيبيديا وويكي؟===

هذا سؤال شائع. الرجاء مراجعة {{ll|Differences between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki}} للحصول على إجابة مفصلة.

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=== I want to use a MediaWiki instance to (blank). Am I allowed to? ===
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ميدياويكي برنامج مجاني: هذا يعني أنه يمكنك استخدامه لأي غرض دون عائق قانوني. 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Furthermore, its licensing conditions apply solely to the software itself.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This means that although many wikis license their content under a permissive license, you are not obliged to license the content submitted to your wiki in any particular way.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Of course, as a project founded to support sites like Wikipedia, we encourage you to license the texts you write under a free license, but, in short, you are not required to.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you wish to alter or amend the software itself, in general, you are permitted to, but there are some restrictions and you should consult [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html the full text of the GNU GPL version 2 for details].</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Because MediaWiki is provided free of charge, there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law.</span>

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=== How do I create a wiki? ===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Creating a wiki implies installing MediaWiki on a server and having access to manage it.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There are different options, depending on your level of expertise:</span>

* <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To create a wiki on your own server, follow the [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Installation guide|Installation guide]].</span>
* <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Some hosts offer one-click installs, or allow creating a wiki on-request.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See [[Special:MyLanguage/Hosting services|Hosting services]] for different options.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This site (MediaWiki.org) or the Wikimedia Foundation does not allow individuals to create wikis.</span>

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==Installation and configuration==
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===Where do I download MediaWiki?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">[[Special:MyLanguage/Download|Download the latest stable release of MediaWiki.]] Files are supplied in a [[w:Tar (computing)|.tar]][[:en:gzip|.gz]] archive.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki can also be [[Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git|obtained directly from our Git]] repository.</span>

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===How to install MediaWiki?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Installing MediaWiki takes around 10 to 30 minutes, and involves uploading/copying files, and running the installer script to configure the software.</span>  
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Installation guide}}, where you will also find the ''minimum system requirements''.</span>

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===How do I install MediaWiki using a package?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Many Linux distributions provide MediaWiki in a packaged format for that distribution.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The MediaWiki development team refers you to your Linux distribution for assistance with installing, configuring or using them.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The individual communities and companies who maintain such packages should provide installation instructions.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Be warned that third-party distributions may be older versions, so pay close attention to compatibility information for directions and extensions.</span>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Software bundles}}''

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===Can I install more than one wiki on a server using MediaWiki?===
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It is possible to install more than one wiki on a server provided that:
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* You install multiple instances of MediaWiki (such as with a [[Special:MyLanguage/software bundles#MediaWiki pre-integrated with AMP packages|software bundle]] like the Bitnami MediaWiki Stack); in different directories &ndash; one for each wiki
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Or
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*You use a different database for each wiki
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Or
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*You use a different database prefix for each wiki (for Postgres, you can achieve a similar effect by using different schemas and users).
</div> If you want to use the same LocalSettings.php file for both, you must ensure $wgServer is dynamically set to the correct value.

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For information on the latter two options, see '''{{ll|Manual:$wgDBname|$wgDBname}}''' and '''{{ll|Manual:$wgDBprefix|$wgDBprefix}}''' respectively.
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For more information on setting up a wiki family (wikifarm), see {{ll|Manual:Wiki family}}.
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===How do I install an existing wiki, like Wikipedia or Wiktionary?===
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The main (but not necessarily the easiest) method is to import. ''See [[#Wiki importing|Wiki importing]], below.''
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(Non-MediaWiki methods, such as Xowa and Kiwix can be found at [[w:Wikipedia:Database download]]).
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===Does MediaWiki require shell access?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Shell access ([[w:Secure Shell|SSH]]) is not required for installing MediaWiki, but it is ''highly recommended''.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Without shell access, it may even be difficult for you to get a backup of your wiki, or to upgrade to a new version.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Some maintenance tasks are not possible at all without shell access.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Many major extensions work best with shell access.</span>

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===How do I install extensions?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Extensions}} for information about installing and writing extensions.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Category:Extensions}} to find existing extensions.</span>

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===How do I add extra namespaces?===
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See [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Using custom namespaces#Creating a custom namespace|Creating a custom namespace]].
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===How do I enable uploading?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">File uploads are an often-used feature of MediaWiki, but are disabled by default in all current release versions.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To enable them, first make the upload directory (default <code>images</code>) writable by the web server (<code>[[w:chmod|chmod]] -R 777 ./images</code> or allow the Apache user to write to it, etc.) then set '''{{ll|Manual:$wgEnableUploads|$wgEnableUploads}}''' to <code>true</code> in LocalSettings.php.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you get a "failed to mkdir" error when you try to upload, it probably means that there's a permissions problem.</span>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Manual:Configuring file uploads}}''

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===How do I allow uploading of additional formats?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki requires that allowed file upload formats are specified using the '''{{ll|Manual:$wgFileExtensions|$wgFileExtensions}}''' configuration directive.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Usually this directive is situated in LocalSettings.php in the root of your MediaWiki installation.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For example, to extend uploading to PDF files, add the following to LocalSettings.php:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgFileExtensions[] = 'pdf';
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To extend uploading to more than one type of file, use the following syntax</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgFileExtensions = array_merge( $wgFileExtensions, [ 'pdf', 'txt', 'mp3' ] );
</syntaxhighlight>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Manual:Configuring file uploads}}''

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===How do I enable embedded math formulas?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki allows embedded math formulas.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Extension:Math}} for complete setup instructions.</span>

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=== How do I set the timezone for my MediaWiki? ===
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:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Timezone}}</span>''

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===How do I purge a cached page?===
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To purge a cached page, such as when making changes to the navigation bar, add <code>&action=purge</code> to the end of the page's dynamic URL.
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">E.g.</span>
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Or <code>?action=purge</code> to the end of the page's short form URL:</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">E.g.</span>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Main_Page?action=purge

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Manual:Purge}}, {{ll|Manual:Parameters to index.php}}''

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=== How do I completely disable caching? ===
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Add in your LocalSettings.php file the following lines:
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<code class="mw-code mw-highlight" style="display:block"><!--
-->{{ll|Manual:$wgParserCacheType|$wgParserCacheType}} = CACHE_NONE;
{{ll|Manual:$wgCachePages|$wgCachePages}} = {{#tag:span|false|class=k}};
</code>

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==="File is corrupt or has an invalid extension"===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Some users have reported that after adding a file format to the allowed extensions list, an error is encountered.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The text of the error is similar to the following:</span>

:<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">''The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again.''</span>

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As a possible solution, set the value of '''{{ll|Manual:$wgMimeDetectorCommand|$wgMimeDetectorCommand}}'''. Under Unix or Linux, this would be
</div> <syntaxhighlight lang="php">$wgMimeDetectorCommand = "file --brief --mime";</syntaxhighlight>
:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Manual:MIME type detection}}''

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===Initial user was not created by installer or it is not an administrator===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Sometimes, the installer fails to create the default user, or the user table is lost for some reason.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There are a couple of options for solving this:</span>

====maintenance/createAndPromote.php====
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*Execute {{tmpl|0=<code>{{ll|Manual:createAndPromote.php|maintenance/createAndPromote.php}} --username &lt;$1> --password &lt;$2></code>|new user name|password for that user}} from the shell.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Append <code>--bureaucrat</code> to command line if you want that user to become a bureaucrat, in addition to becoming an administrator.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This will create a new user and promote them to an administrator.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For help, run the script with the parameter <code>--help</code>.</span>

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====Alter the database====
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*Register a new account using the regular method ([[Special:UserLogin]]).
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*Check the user ID [[Special:MyLanguage/API:Userinfo#Example|via API]].
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*Execute the following SQL statement against the database:
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**<code>INSERT INTO user_groups ( ug_user, ug_group ) VALUES ( ''&lt;id>'', 'bureaucrat' ), ( ''&lt;id>'', 'sysop' );</code>
::<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><code>''&lt;id>''</code> above should be replaced with the appropriate user ID which you can see on the user's preference page.</span>
::<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Note: if {{$wg|DBprefix}} is defined in LocalSettings.php, prepend its value to the table name.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For example, if {{phpi|$wgDBprefix}} is "XYZ", then the table name to use is <code>XYZuser_groups</code></span>

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====Temporarily let everyone assign rights to promote your initial user====
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{{Warning|1=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You should not let outsiders access your wiki while you do this, if you use this method.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This method may leave your wiki temporarily vulnerable to attack while you do the procedure.</span>}}

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This method essentially involves letting all users temporarily modify user permissions in order to promote one user
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*Register a new account using the regular method ([[Special:UserLogin]]).
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Be logged in using that account.</span>
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*Add the following line to the bottom of LocalSettings.php
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** <code>$wgGroupPermissions['user']['userrights'] = true;</code>
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*Go to [[special:userrights]] and add the user you just created to the ''Administrator'' and ''Bureaucrat'' groups.
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*Remove the <syntaxhighlight lang=php inline>$wgGroupPermissions['user']['userrights'] = true;</syntaxhighlight> line from your LocalSettings.php.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This step is '''very important''', as until you remove it anyone can alter permissions, which is bad.</span>

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===How do I reset a user's MediaWiki password?===
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: ''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Resetting passwords}}</span>''

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===How can I create interwiki links in my wiki?===
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: ''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Interwiki}}</span>''

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===How do I make my base URLs shorter?===
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<sup><span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">(i.e. /wiki/Article_Name as opposed to /w/index.php?title=Article_Name)</span></sup>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Short URL}}</span>''

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=== How do I organize pages into subdirectories like /wiki/subdir/PageName? ===
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:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages}}{{int|and}}{{int|word-separator}}{{ll|Help:Subpages}}</span>''

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===Is downloading and using all of MediaWiki.org free?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Yes, it is free in the sense of [[w:Free software|Free software]].</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Project:Copyrights}} for licensing issues regarding the written content of this site.</span>

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===How do I administrate/manage user rights?===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:User rights}} for general information.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Preventing access}} for methods and strategies for restricting access.</span>

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====How do I stop anonymous users from editing any page?====
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The recommended method is by changing the value of the <code>{{ll|Manual:$wgGroupPermissions|$wgGroupPermissions}}</code> configuration option.</span>  
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Edit <code>{{ll|Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php}}</code> and add the line:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you use {{ll|Extension:AbuseFilter}}, any admin can also disable IP editing temporarily as needed.</span>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Manual:Preventing access#Restrict anonymous editing|2=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Preventing access</span>}}, {{ll|Manual:User rights}}''

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====How do I stop anonymous users from reading any page?====
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*Add this to the bottom of LocalSettings.php:
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$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also {{ll|Manual:$wgWhitelistRead}}.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Preventing access#Restrict viewing of all pages|Manual:Preventing access#Restrict viewing of all pages]] for more information.</span>

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====How do I restrict account creation?====
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*Add this to the bottom of LocalSettings.php:
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<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
</syntaxhighlight>

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See [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Preventing access#Restrict account creation|Manual:Preventing access#Restrict account creation]] for more information.
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====How do I require an email address be specified at registration?====
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:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit}}</span>''

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===How do I put MediaWiki into ''Read Only'' mode?===
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{{MW 1.5|and after}}
:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:$wgReadOnly}}</span>''

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=== How do I change default user preferences? ===
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{{MW 1.4|and after}}
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The MediaWiki default user preferences are in {{ll|Manual:MainConfigSchema.php|MainConfigSchema.php}}</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Don't edit that file, just use it for reference.</span> 

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Say if you want to hide minor edits in recent changes by default.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">DefaultSettings.php says:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang=php>
public const DefaultUserOptions = [
        ...
	'hideminor' => 0,
        ...
]
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To change the preference, put this in your LocalSettings.php:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang=php>
$wgDefaultUserOptions["hideminor"] = 1;
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To change the default namespaces to be searched, in any version of MediaWiki, set {{ll|Manual:$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault|$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault}} in LocalSettings.php to an array mapping namespace indexes to boolean values.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For example, to search the main namespace and the category namespace, use:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang=php>
$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = [
    NS_MAIN => true,
    NS_CATEGORY => true,
];
</syntaxhighlight>

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In some cases, after you change a default user preference, you may also want to change the user preferences of all existing user accounts.
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If so, use the {{ll|Manual:userOptions.php|userOptions.php}} script in the <code>maintenance</code> directory.</span>  
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Use the <kbd>--dry</kbd> option for the first run, assess the impact and go from there. (<kbd>--dry</kbd> does not write the database.)</span>

 php userOptions.php --dry --nowarn hideminor --old 0 --new 1

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Also, always backup your database before making these kinds of changes (you do not need to if you are just using <kbd>--dry</kbd>).</span>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span>'' {{ll|Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions}}

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===How can I make MediaWiki run faster?===
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:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See:</span> {{ll|Manual:Performance tuning}}''

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===How do I enable a drop-down list of search suggestions?===
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:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Enabling autocomplete in search box}}</span>''

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===How do MediaWiki and GDPR go together?===
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:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See [[GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and MediaWiki software]]</span>''

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==Upgrading==
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:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Upgrading}}</span>''
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==Moving==
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===Is it possible to move my wiki to a different machine?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Yes.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">It should be.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">In essence, you will be backing up your old installation and then "restoring" it onto the new machine.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Finally, you will have to make additional modifications to update the wiki configuration so that everything points to the new location.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I move my wiki to a different server?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Follow the instructions at {{ll|Manual:Moving a wiki}}.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==Changing the interface==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I change the logo?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
The logo that appears in the top left of each page is determined by the {{ll|Manual:$wgLogo|$wgLogo}} configuration line in the {{ll|Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php}} file.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
There are two ways to change the logo:
</div>

# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Upload a picture to your wiki using the normal file uploading interface.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This allows the logo to be replaced easily, so you may want to protect the page if you use this method.</span> 
#: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Then add the $wgLogo line to ''LocalSettings.php'', for example:</span>
#: <syntaxhighlight lang="php">$wgLogo = "{$wgUploadPath}/6/62/mylogo.png";</syntaxhighlight>
# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Upload an image to your server by other means (such as FTP).</span>
#: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Add the $wgLogo line to ''LocalSettings.php'', for example:</span>
#: <syntaxhighlight lang="php">$wgLogo = "{$wgScriptPath}/mylogo.jpg";</syntaxhighlight>
#: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">(In this example, the image is in the same folder as the LocalSettings.php file.)</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you want to change the logo in only specific pages, override #p-logo css's background-image property or use third party extension like {{ll|Extension:LogoFunctions}}.</span>

{{caution|1=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Do not simply overwrite the default logo installed with MediaWiki</span> (<code>/resources/assets/wiki.png</code>); <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">this file will be overwritten when you upgrade.</span>}}
{{tip|1=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">A good size for a square logo is 135x135px or 150x150px, but the logo need not be square, especially if it contains text below an image.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The maximum logo size in Vector is ~160x160px, while MonoBook's is ~155x155px.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">A logo that is too large will be cut off.</span>}}

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I edit the wiki's CSS?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You shouldn't edit the CSS files (such as common.css) directly, because it will make upgrading harder if you need to apply your customizations each time you upgrade the software.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Instead you need to edit a wiki page called [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] if you want to apply your CSS changes for all skins, or a wiki page called [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]] if you want to apply the customizations only for the Vector skin.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
The content of the MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.css pages always overrides the default CSS styles specified in the skin files.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I hide the left vertical navigation toolbar?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
In other words, how do you make the main content div take up 100% of the display, hiding the logo, toolbox, navigation and search engine?
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To hide it permanently, copy and paste the following into the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] page:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
#column-content { margin: 0 0 .6em 0; }
#content { margin: 2.8em 0 0 0; }
#p-logo, .generated-sidebar, #p-lang, #p-tb, #p-search { display:none; }
#p-cactions { left: .1em; }
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To instead hide the toolbar when the user presses F11, enter this in your wiki's [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
document.onkeydown = function( e ) {
	if( e == null ) e = event
	if( testKey( e, 122 ) ) { //F11
		appendCSS('#column-content {margin: 0 0 .6em 0;} #content {margin: 2.8em 0 0 0;} #p-logo, .generated-sidebar, #p-lang, #p-tb, #p-search {display:none;} #p-cactions {left: .1em;} #footer {display:none;}');
		return false;
	}
}

function testKey( e, intKeyCode ) {
	if( window.createPopup )
		return e.keyCode == intKeyCode
	else
		return e.which == intKeyCode
}
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I hide the categories at the bottom of each page? ===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
You can hide display of the categories on each page by modifying your [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] and adding:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">.catlinks { display: none; }</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I customize the link-URL of the site-logo in the top left corner of all pages that activates when the site-logo is clicked upon?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">By default, clicking the site-logo takes you to the main site-page.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you want to change which internal site-page is the "main" site-page, edit [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]].</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To make the link of the site-logo link externally to any other arbitrary URL, you can use jQuery code within MediaWiki:Common.js:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang=javascript>
$("a.mw-wiki-logo").attr("href", "http://www.example.com");
$("a.mw-wiki-logo").attr("title", "Go to example.com website");
</syntaxhighlight>


<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I change the icon in the browser's address line (favicon)?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*Simply upload your favicon.ico to the root of your domain/subdomain, make sure file name is in lower case and its name is favicon.ico
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*Alternatively edit the {{ll|Manual:$wgFavicon|$wgFavicon}} setting in LocalSettings.php and add
</div> <syntaxhighlight lang=php inline>$wgFavicon = "$wgScriptPath/path/to/your/favicon.ico";</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See {{ll|Manual:$wgFavicon}} for more details.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
''Tip: The favicon image should be either 16 x 16 pixels or 32 x 32 pixels.''
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
====Rewrite Rule====
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you are using a rewrite rule in .htaccess to remove "index.php" from the URL, you will also need to add an exception for .ico files.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Simply add the following rule to your .htaccess:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="apacheconf">RewriteRule .*\.ico$ - [L]</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
This rule must appear ''before'' the index.php rule.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
====Case sensitivity====
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">When uploading the favicon file, be sure the filename is in lowercase. (That is, "favicon.ico", not "Favicon.ico".)</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">A lot of servers (e.g., those on UNIX-like operating systems) will not be able to find the file unless its name is in lowercase.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I customize the navigation bar?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The contents of the navigation bar which appears to the left of each page using the Vector or the Monobook skin are determined by the '''[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]''' page there on your wiki.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For information on customising these, please see {{ll|Manual:Interface/Sidebar}}.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I put a text message (sitenotice) on every page?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Put a text in the '''[[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]''' page. It will be displayed on top of every article page.
</div>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You can also add text to '''[[MediaWiki:Anonnotice]]''' to create a message that only displays for logged-out users.</span>  
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">It is often a good idea to transclude the site notice on the anon notice to make sure that logged-out users still get the information on the site notice.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I change which page is the main page?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">By default, MediaWiki looks for a page with the title ''Main Page'' and serves this as the default page.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This can be changed by altering the contents of '''{{ll|Creating a MediaWiki page|MediaWiki:Mainpage}}''' to point to a different title.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If this does not change the 'Main Page' link included on the sidebar at install time, edit '''{{ll|Creating a MediaWiki page|MediaWiki:Sidebar}}'''.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I change the Main Page title?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Simply click on the "Move" tab, and move the page to the desired page title.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Usually you also want to [[#How do I change which page is the main page?|change which page is the configured as "main page"]].
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I hide the main page title?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==== MediaWiki 1.38+ ====
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
The displayed title of the main page can be changed using the MediaWiki messages {{blue|MediaWiki:mainpage-title}} and {{blue|MediaWiki:mainpage-title-loggedin}} (for logged-out and logged-in users respectively). The main page title can be hidden by setting both messages to empty (or only either of them if the title should still be displayed to logged-out or logged-in users).
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==== MediaWiki 1.37 and below ====
</div>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki does not have a built-in option to hide the main page title (see {{phabricator|T8129}}), but you can use CSS to hide the title.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Alternatively, you can use the {{ll|Extension:NoTitle|nsp=0}} extension.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Add the following to {{blue|MediaWiki:Common.css}} on your wiki:</span> 

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
body.page-Main_Page.action-view h1.firstHeading, body.page-Main_Page.action-submit h1.firstHeading { display: none; }
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If your main page uses a localized name or you have renamed the main page you need to change the <code>page-Main_Page</code> part. You can find a correct parameter by viewing HTML source of the main page and searching for the <code>body</code> tag.
</div> 

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
For example, if your language is Lojban, the body tag looks like this:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<body class="mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr ns-4 ns-subject page-uikipedi_as_ralju skin-vector action-view">
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Therefore you should put this line in your {{blue|MediaWiki:Common.css}} instead:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
body.page-uikipedi_as_ralju.action-view h1.firstHeading, body.page-uikipedi_as_ralju.action-submit h1.firstHeading { display: none; }
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you would like to hide the title of a "Main Page" in a specific namespace like "Help:Main_Page" add the following to {{blue|MediaWiki:Common.css}} on your wiki:</span> 

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
body.page-Help_Main_Page.action-view h1.firstHeading, body.page-Help_Main_Page.action-submit h1.firstHeading { display: none; }
</syntaxhighlight>

Note the difference: <code>body.page-Help_Main_Page</code> in comparison to <code>body.page-Help:Main_Page</code>. The latter will not work.

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If this doesn't work, you may be using a skin that doesn't support this, or you moved your main page without updating [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]], or you have a really old MediaWiki version.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If the skin uses a different element for the title than a <code>h1</code> element with class <code>firstHeading</code>, you'll need to find the appropriate CSS selector to apply for that skin.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How can I hide the table of contents?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The table of contents ([[TOC]]) is automatically shown once there are four or more headings in the article.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There are multiple ways to hide it.</span>

; <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For one page</span>
: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Place the magic word <code>'''<nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki>'''</code> in the page's wikitext.</span>

; <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For all pages</span>
:<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Install {{ll|Extension:NoTOC}}</span>
:<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">''or''</span>
: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Add the following rule to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]:</span> <syntaxhighlight lang="css">.toc, #toc { display: none; }</syntaxhighlight>

; <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Per user</span>
: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Users can add the same CSS rule to their [[Special:MyPage/common.css|common.css]] [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/Stylesheets|personal stylesheet]].</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I change the interface text?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Interface text is altered using the MediaWiki namespace.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For each deviation from the default in the site language there is a page MediaWiki:''Englishmessagename'', and for each deviation from the default in each other language a page MediaWiki:''Englishmessagename''/''languagecode''.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">(Since release 1.9 there are no pages for messages equal to the default.).</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">On creation of a page the edit box autofills with the default.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">When creating a page to override the default it is useful to first save the default version, to allow diffs with it.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also {{ll|Help:System message}}.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*For a list of system messages, see '''[[Special:Allmessages]]'''
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*To switch ''off'' the MediaWiki namespace, see the {{ll|Manual:$wgUseDatabaseMessages|$wgUseDatabaseMessages}} configuration setting
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*To remove the ''Privacy policy'' or ''Disclaimers'' links at the bottom of each page, set the content of pages '''[[MediaWiki:Privacy]]''' or '''[[MediaWiki:Disclaimers]]''' respectively to a single hyphen (<code>-</code>).
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I edit error messages? ===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
[[Special:Allmessages]] contains a complete list of messages (error or otherwise), that can be edited.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
You may also add ?uselang=qqx or &uselang=qqx to a URL which will display the name of each messages in the interface.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I change the interface language?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To change the default interface language, alter the value of <code>{{ll|Manual:$wgLanguageCode|$wgLanguageCode}}</code> in <code>LocalSettings.php</code>, for example
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgLanguageCode = "fr";
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
You may also need to [[w:Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache|bypass your browser's cache]] to see the changes.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
The new default interface language will be applied to all users who haven't ever customised it.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If you want to provide users the possibility to create and choose pages and interface elements in languages other than the default one of the wiki, you need the {{ll|Extension:Translate|nsp=0}} extension, which can make your wiki multilingual.
</div>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you want to change the language settings for all existing users, use the {{ll|Manual:userOptions.php|userOptions.php}} [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Maintenance scripts|maintenance script]].</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For instance, to have all users with English set use French instead, run:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
php userOptions.php language --old en --new fr
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I remove the article/edit etc tabs?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
''For a little more control see: [[User:Subfader/Hide_page_tabs]]''
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Edit [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] on your wiki, and add this:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">li#ca-edit { display: none; }</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See the page source for the various #ca-* ids used in the content tabs.</span>

{{note|1=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This will only work for Monobook and derived skins such as Modern and Vector (the default skin), and doesn't actually stop people from editing.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To do that, see {{ll|Manual:User rights}}.</span>}}

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I add/remove tabs throughout my wiki?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See {{ll|Manual:User group CSS and JavaScript}} or write your own extension (See: {{ll|Manual:Hooks/SkinTemplateNavigation}}):
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
For example, to remove the talk tab and then add a tab that always goes to the main page you would save this code in
</div> <code>extensions/AR-Tabs.php</code>:

{{MW 1.21|and after}}
<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
<?php
if( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ){
	die( "This is not a valid access point.\n" );
}

$wgHooks['SkinTemplateNavigation'][] = 'replaceTabs';
function replaceTabs( &$skin, &$links) {  
	// Remove the talk action
	unset( $links['namespaces']['talk'] );
	$maintitle = Title::newFromText( wfMessage( 'mainpage' )->inContentLanguage()->text() );
	// Add an additional link
	$links['namespaces']['main'] = array(
		'class' => false, // false or 'selected', defines whether the tab should be highlighted
		'text' => wfMessage( 'sitetitle' )->text(), // what the tab says
		'href' => $maintitle->getFullURL(), // where it links to
		'context' => 'main',
	);
	return true;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">and then add</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">require_once("extensions/AR-Tabs.php");</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
to the bottom of LocalSettings.php
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
====How do I remove a tab on only one page?====
</div>
{{MW 1.9|and after}}
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For example, to remove the Discussion (talk) page tab from the Main Page, on the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] page add:</span> 
<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
body.page-Main_Page li#ca-talk { display: none !important; }
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To modify [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] you must be an {{ll|Manual:interface administrator|nsp=0}}.</span>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Manual:Hide page tabs}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
====How do I remove a tab on all pages====
</div>
{{MW 1.9|and after}}
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For example, to remove the Discussion (talk) page tab on all wikipages, on the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] page add:</span> 

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
#ca-talk { display:none!important; }
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Other tabs to remove are '''#ca-history''',  '''#ca-viewsource''', '''#ca-view''' (Read tab), '''#ca-nstab-main''' (Page tab).
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Other drop down menu items you can remove are '''#ca-watch''', '''#ca-move''', '''#ca-delete'''.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To modify [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] you must be an {{ll|Manual:interface administrator|nsp=0}}.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I remove the "Talk for this IP" link at the top right (e.g. when {{ll|Manual:$wgDisableAnonTalk|$wgDisableAnonTalk}} is true)?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
One option is to hide the link using the following CSS in the wiki page ''MediaWiki:Common.css'' in your wiki:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
#p-personal #pt-anonuserpage {
    display: none;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Another option is, inside your LocalSettings.php file, to use the PersonalUrls hook to remove the link to the talk page of anonymous users:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang=php>
$wgHooks['PersonalUrls'][] = 'lfRemoveAnonUserpageLink';
function lfRemoveAnonUserpageLink( &$personal_urls, $title ) {
	unset( $personal_urls['anonuserpage'] );
	return true;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I remove the "Create an Account or Login" link at the top right of the screen?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To remove the login / create account links from the personal_urls you can use this code in your {{manual|LocalSettings.php}} to hook in and remove them:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang=php>
$wgHooks['SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal'][] = function ( $skinTemplate, &$links ) {
	unset( $links['user-menu']['login'] );
	unset( $links['user-menu']['login-private'] );
	unset( $links['user-menu']['createaccount'] );
};
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How can I suppress actions and special pages?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
There are two different ways:
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
====Using .htaccess file====
</div>

{{note|1=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki is not designed for this kind of usage!</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Not all servers support .htaccess file.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Note also that this system is not foolproof, it's just one step further than hiding the links (see above).</span>}}

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Suppressing actions and special pages can be useful when you want to create the illusion of a static website via a particular URL or VirtualHost, but also have an 'internal' view that is a true wiki.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">i.e. if you have an inward facing 'view' of your wiki that users can edit, and an outward facing 'view' that should appear like a static website (no history, no discussion, etc., etc.).</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">After hiding all the appropriate links (see above), if you are using the Apache web server, you can disable actions and special pages using the following [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html rewrite rules]:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="apacheconf">
# Lock down the site (disable MediaWiki commands)

RewriteEngine On

#RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log

#RewriteLogLevel 9

## See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php#Actions

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*action=.*)
RewriteRule .* http://www.my.domain.com?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php/Special:Search
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^(.*Special:.*)
RewriteRule .* http://www.my.domain.com?

## Catch a trick...
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*Special:.*)
RewriteRule .* http://www.my.domain.com?
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Above, a request for <code><nowiki>'http://www.my.domain.com/wiki/Page_name?action=edit'</nowiki></code>, for example, will be simply rewritten to <code><nowiki>'http://www.my.domain.com'</nowiki></code>.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Similarly any page in the Special namespace (except for Special:Search) will be rewritten to <code><nowiki>'http://www.my.domain.com'</nowiki></code>.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Alternatively, you may also serve a "403 Forbidden" for all such requests using: <syntaxhighlight lang="apacheconf" inline>RewriteRule .* - [F]</syntaxhighlight>.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">'''Remember''', this is only a hack, and isn't intended as a solution for a secure CMS.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Note that you will need to adjust the above rules to match your specific URL naming schema.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Other issues to consider when trying to lock down a site like this is the API and POST requests for the wiki content (rather than GET).
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
====Using LocalSettings.php====
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To disable a specific special page (such as Special:SpecialPages), you may use:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgSpecialPages['Name'] = DisabledSpecialPage::getCallback( 'Name', 'message' );
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
where <code>Name</code> is the canonical (English) name of the special page to disable, and <code>message</code> is the message to be shown to users when they try to access the special page.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To disable an action (such as edit), you may use:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgActions['edit'] = false;
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See {{ll|API:Restricting API usage}} to disable an API module.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
This is only the basic usages. Usually you may want to disable special pages, actions or API modules conditionally.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I change the footer?===
</div>
:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See:</span> {{ll|Manual:Footer}}, {{ll|Manual:Configuration settings#Copyright|2=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Manual:Configuration settings#Copyright</span>}}''

{{Anchor|powered-by-mw-image}}
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How can I edit / remove the Powered by MediaWiki image (and possible other images) from the footer?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
You can hide the Powered by MediaWiki image by adding the following to your wiki's [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
#footer-poweredbyico { display: none; }
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you want to remove it completely, you can use {{wg|FooterIcons}} to remove it using this in your {{manual|LocalSettings.php}}:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang=php>unset( $wgFooterIcons['poweredby'] );</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Note that this will also remove ''other'' powered-by icons, e.g. also the one coming from BlueSpice.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If you wish to change the icon images, urls, alt text, or add new icons please see {{wg|FooterIcons}}' documentation.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I add a reply link to default signature tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) template?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
You can customize signatures in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] / [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]].
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
For example, changing the entries to <code><nowiki>[[{{ns:user}}:$1|$2]] ([[{{ns:user_talk}}:$1|talk]])</nowiki></code> will put a link to users' talk pages and <code><nowiki>[[{{ns:user}}:$1|$2]] ([{{fullurl:{{ns:user_talk}}:$1|action=edit&section=new}} Reply])</nowiki></code> would give a more direct link.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Users can change their signature in their preferences.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How can I change what the {{tag|title|open}} of each page is? Where do I make changes?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Most of the text that you want to change can be found in the namespace of MediaWiki.
</div>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">In order to change titles, texts, announcements, etc., go to [[Special:AllMessages]], where you will see the text associated with the pages you wish to change.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You need to log in as an administrator to edit the protected entries in the MediaWiki namespace.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you want to change the title in your browser, you need to edit [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]].</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Go there and edit it just like you would any other page in your wiki.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
In recent versions of MediaWiki, [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]] is <nowiki>$1 - {{SITENAME}}</nowiki> by default. If <nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki> is producing the wrong text for you, you need to set {{ll|Manual:$wgSitename|$wgSitename}} in your LocalSettings.php.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Don't forget to clear your browser cache after you change your settings.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===Does MediaWiki automatically capitalize the first letter of $wgSitename?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Yes.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This can be changed using the {{ll|Manual:$wgCapitalLinks|$wgCapitalLinks}} configuration setting.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I make external links open in a new window?===
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget}}</span>''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How can I suppress MediaWiki from formatting URLs, tags, etc?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Put "{{tag|nowiki|pair|content=}}" tags around the URL or tag.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
''Example:''
</div>

 <nowiki>svn co <nowiki>http://svn.example.com/myproject/</nowiki></nowiki>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">''Produces:''</span><br/>
svn co <nowiki>http://svn.example.com/myproject/</nowiki>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How can I force users to preview before they save?===
</div>

: ''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See:</span> {{ll|Manual:Force preview}}, {{ll|Extension:ForcePreview}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I add more buttons on the edit page?===
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See:</span> {{ll|Manual:Custom edit buttons}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How can I get more special characters or tags clickable on the edit page?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
For adding more selectable special characters, etc., below the edit field, see {{ll|Extension:CharInsert}}.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How can I use a different skin on my wiki? ===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See {{ll|Manual:$wgDefaultSkin}} for more information on configuring your default skin.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I disable external links from showing in the printable version of a page? ===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Edit the page [[MediaWiki:Print.css]] on your wiki and add the following code there:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
#content a.external.text:after,
#content a.external.autonumber:after {
	content: none;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This will override the styles defined in the CSS files coming with the MediaWiki source code.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">For more information, see {{ll|Manual:CSS}}.</span> 

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If instead you want to have the external links ''underlined'' in the printable version, then also add the following code:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
#content a.external {
    text-decoration: underline !important;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I print footnotes at the bottom of each printed page? ===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Try this StackOverflow solution: [https://stackoverflow.com/a/23622470 Printed HTML per-page footnotes]
</div>

{{anchor|How do I change the text of the tab of my wikis main page?}}
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I change the text of the article (page name) tab of my wiki's main page?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To change the text of the tab, as one example used in Wikipedia, you first open the page "<code>MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab</code>".
</div>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">After you've done that, click Edit and type in the edit box the text you want to be seen later on the main page - that's it.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Don't forget to save the page as well.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I change the background color? ===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
To change the background color of the MediaWiki interface outside of the page content and tabs, add the following CSS to the MediaWiki page <code><nowiki>[[MediaWiki:Common.css]]</nowiki></code>:
</div>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
/* Changes the background color of the bottom and left of each page, up to behind half of the logo: */
body {
  background: red;
}

/* Changes the background color behind the top half of the logo and at top of each page: */
#mw-page-base {
  background: red;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This will change the background color outside of the tabs, search, and page content to <span style=color:red>red</span>.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:CSS}} for more information.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I load external fonts? ===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This example refers to Google Fonts, a repository of free open-source fonts that you can use with MediaWiki.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Go to https://fonts.google.com/, find fonts that you like, and select them by clicking the "plus" (+) icon.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Select one or more fonts to be added.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Click the tab for the pop-up notification, and then select "@IMPORT". Copy and paste the resulting CSS into <code><nowiki>[[MediaWiki:Common.css]]</nowiki></code>. The examples below use [[w:Noto Sans|Noto Sans]] and Noto Serif. They are default fonts for Android operating system and have good support for [[w:Unicode|Unicode]] text.</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
@import url( 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Sans|Noto+Serif ');

/* Changes the default font used for MediaWiki to Noto Sans (does not include headings or monospaced text): */
body {
  font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif;
}

/* Changes the default font used for MediaWiki headings to Noto Serif: */
#content h1, 
#content h2 {
  font-family: "Noto Serif", serif;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

===How to hide the "Your edit was saved" notification?===

Edit the wiki page <code>MediaWiki:Common.css</code> on your wiki to include the line <code>.postedit {display: none;}</code>. See [[Manual:Interface/Stylesheets]] for more information.

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==Basic usage==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I edit a page?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To edit a page, simply click the '''edit''' link that appears on each page.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Using the default Vector skin, this is in the form of a tab at the top of the page.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">A form will appear, containing the existing markup.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">When you have finished making modifications, click the '''Save''' button to commit your changes.</span>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Help:Editing pages}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I create a new page?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
There are several ways to create a new page:
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*Create a link to the page on another page, then click on the red link which appears
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*Browse to the intended location of the page, e.g. <code><nowiki>http://www.example.com/index.php?title=New_page</nowiki></code> and click on the "'''Edit'''", "'''Create'''" or "'''Create source'''" link.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
On some wikis, a failed search for a page will contain a link which allows you to edit that page.
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Help:Starting a new page}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I delete an old version of a page?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Old versions of page data are retained in the database and can be accessed via the page history features.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This is useful for reviewing changes and correcting or reverting undesirable ones, but in some cases, administrators might want to make this information unavailable, for legal reasons, or to reduce the size of the database.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*Administrators can delete an old revision of a page by deleting the page, and then selectively undeleting revisions to be kept
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*For newer MediaWikis (1.14+), you can enable the core {{ll|RevisionDelete}} feature that allows privileged users to remove single revisions from page histories.
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*The <code>maintenance/{{ll|Manual:deleteOldRevisions.php|deleteOldRevisions.php}}</code> [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Maintenance scripts|maintenance script]] can mass-delete all old revisions of pages and their associated text records.
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|Manual:Removing embarrassment}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I use oversight/delete revisions in the page history?===
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See:</span> {{ll|RevisionDelete}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
You can also delete a page, and then restore only the revisions you want.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===Are there any editing tutorials available?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There are several editing tutorials available, mostly on Wikimedia sister projects, such as Wikipedia.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There are also markup references, etc. available on ''Meta''.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*The page {{ll|Help:Editing pages}} on this site
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*The ''[[:en:Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]'' guide on the English Wikipedia
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I view the printable form of a page?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
MediaWiki includes stylesheets which automatically style a page appropriately when it is printed; using the print or print preview function within your browser ought to render the page in a printable form.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
You can also view this printable form using the ''printable version'' link in the sidebar under ''Toolbox'' or ''Print/export'' if using the {{ll|Extension:Collection|nsp=0}} extension.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I use templates? ===
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Help:Templates}}</span>''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===Can I use media (images, video, audio, etc.) from [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Commons|Wikimedia Commons]] in my installed version of MediaWiki?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Yes, this is encouraged through the use of {{ll|Manual:$wgUseInstantCommons}}.
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span> {{ll|InstantCommons}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I use a template as a signature?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">When you look at your preferences, you see a check box for "raw signature."</span>  
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">But the field will only take a certain number of characters.</span>  
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">What if you want more?</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You will need to create two pages, possibly in your userspace.</span>

#<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Create the first page (FIRST PAGE)</span>
# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Go to your preferences, check "raw signature" and put <nowiki>{{FIRST PAGE}}</nowiki> in the signature.</span> {{int|saveprefs}}
#<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Create a second page (SECOND PAGE) (possibly a sub-page of the first)</span>
#<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Go back to the first page (FIRST PAGE) and do <nowiki>{{SECOND PAGE}}</nowiki></span>
#<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Go to the second page (SECOND PAGE) and place the code you wish to have for your signature.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you don't have this structure, you will still be inserting all your signature code into the raw code wherever your signature is used, because the software will insert "SUBST" in your preferences.</span>  
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You may not mind this, in which case you only need one page.</span>  
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you want the raw code to only display <nowiki>{{FIRST PAGE}}</nowiki>, which looks a lot cleaner, then you need to use the two-page structure.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I add the sandbox functionality to my installation of the wiki? ===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">In wiki terms, a ''sandbox'' is simply a "play pen"; a page which users can mess about in.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This is an ordinary page created in the normal manner, and can be located wherever you like.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There is no special sandbox functionality built into MediaWiki.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Users often inquire about the Wikipedia sandboxes, which seem to be self-emptying.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This is not quite correct; there are a number of volunteers who run [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Bots|bots]] to clean these up and return them to a certain state at regular time intervals.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See also: [[Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SandboxLink|Extension:SandboxLink]] which will add a link to user's personal sandbox (i.e. a subpage of personal user page)  to personal tools menu.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I add a "Sandbox" link to personal tools (top right)? ===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
You need to install the {{ll|Extension:SandboxLink|nsp=0}} extension.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I make my wiki serve all languages? ===
</div>
* To allow user to switch the language of the interface, see {{ll|Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector}}
* <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To allow translation of pages and of the custom interface (like the sidebar), use the {{ll|Extension:Translate|Translate}} extension; there's [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate|extensive documentation]].</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==Wiki importing==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===Importing from MediaWiki XML dumps===
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See:</span> {{ll|Manual:Importing XML dumps}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===Importing from other types of wiki software===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
This section lacks information - please feel free to add it.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===Importing from other types of files===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
There are a variety of tools available to help convert content from HTML (and other formats) to MediaWiki markup.
</div>

; <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Developer and SysAdmin tools</span>
* [http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-WikiConverter-MediaWiki HTML::WikiConverter::MediaWiki] - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">a Perl module for converting from HTML to MediaWiki markup.</span>
* [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikificator|Wikificator]] - <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">a JavaScript MediaWiki extension that converts XHTML to MediaWiki markup.</span>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* The {{ll|Manual:Edit.php|Edit.php}} and {{ll|Manual:importImages.php|importImages.php}} [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Maintenance scripts|maintenance scripts]] can be used to import text and images into MediaWiki.
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; <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">End-user tools</span>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* [[w:User:Cacycle/wikEd|wikEd]] - a text editor for MediaWiki that can import HTML (including Microsoft Word-generated HTML.)
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;<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Instructions</span>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*[http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/language/wiki/wikimedia/wkm07-MediaWikiImport/ar01s04.html Brief notes on converting from Microsoft .chm help files to MediaWiki]
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<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/Converting_documents_to_mediawiki_markup#Word_Documents Notes on converting from Microsoft Office formats to MediaWiki]
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== Templates imported from other wikis (such as Wikipedia) don't work for me ===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You probably need to install some extensions used on the source wiki, such as {{ll|Extension:Scribunto|Scribunto}}, {{ll|Extension:TemplateStyles|TemplateStyles}}, {{ll|Extension:ParserFunctions|ParserFunctions}} or sometimes {{ll|Extension:Cite|Cite}}.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Also, make sure that you copied all [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/Stylesheets|site CSS]] and [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/JavaScript|JavaScript]] required by the template.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==Customising further==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===I want to have multiple wikis, but only require registration once===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*If you're starting from scratch or you're switching from one wiki to multiple, you can use {{ll|Manual:$wgSharedDB|$wgSharedDB}} and {{ll|Manual:$wgSharedTables|$wgSharedTables}} to have all wikis share the user table of the "main" wiki.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You can share other tables as well, as long as they don't contain any data dependent on non-shared tables or data specific to one wiki.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:Shared database}} for examples and more information.</span>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*If your wikis are already established and you want to switch to a single sign-on, you can use the {{ll|Extension:CentralAuth|CentralAuth}} extension.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">It has a few more features than a shared user table, but it's more difficult to configure and it's tailored toward a Wikimedia-style setup.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">However, it is easier than attempting to completely merge multiple user tables into one.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How can I allow use of HTML tags?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See {{ll|Manual:$wgRawHtml}} as well as {{ll|Manual:$wgGroupPermissions}}{{int|and}}{{int|word-separator}}{{ll|Manual:Preventing access}}.
</div>

{{caution|1=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This can be easily abused to attack users</span>}}

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See {{ll|Extension:Secure HTML}} and {{ll|Extension:HTMLets}} for ways to make this safer.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I fix problems or add features to MediaWiki?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
The basic steps to improving MediaWiki (that is, [[Special:MyLanguage/How to become a MediaWiki hacker|becoming a MediaWiki developer]]) are:
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Install [[Special:MyLanguage/Gerrit|Git]]
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Download the Git "clone" of the MediaWiki source code
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Get a server, a database, and PHP running on your computer (this can be annoying, so please ask for help if something isn't working)
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Get MediaWiki running on your computer off that Git checkout (can be annoying as well, so, ditto)
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Fix the problem or add the feature you were thinking of
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Edit the source code of the relevant file(s) to fix the problem
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Follow {{ll|Gerrit/Tutorial}}
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I run a bot? ===
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See:</span> {{ll|Manual:Bots}}''
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You might want to use the {{ll|Manual:Pywikibot|Pywikibot}} framework.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I change noindex nofollow ===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Set <code class="mw-highlight">{{ll|Manual:$wgNoFollowLinks|$wgNoFollowLinks}} = {{#tag:span|false|class=k}};</code> in {{ll|Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php}}
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I create a small [[w:Wiki farm|wiki farm]]? ===
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See:</span> {{ll|Manual:Wiki family}}''

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== How do I add [[w:Meta element|meta tags]]? ===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The OutputPage class includes an addMeta method which can be used to add meta tags.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The {{ll|RequestContext}} can be used to get the relevant OutputPage object.</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang=php>
$out->addMeta ( 'description', 'This is a meta description.' );
</syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==Why...?==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…is the Help namespace empty?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The Help namespace currently ships in a blank state.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">It's up to you how much or how little help you give to your site visitors and whether this relates to other aspects of your site.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Obviously you can easily link your visitors to help resources elsewhere.</span> 

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">We don't currently have a clean, internationalised set of help pages under a free license.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">However, if you want to copy in some help information onto your site, about how to use a wiki (a MediaWiki powered wiki) you are free to copy the {{ll|Help:Contents}} from this wiki.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This set of pages have been deliberately created for this purpose, with wiki-neutral information, and no license restrictions.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Project:PD help}}.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">More help is available at the Meta-Wiki [[m:Help:Contents|MediaWiki Handbook]].</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…are some of my images not showing up after an upgrade?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Several users have reported that, following an upgrade or a moving of their wiki, several images fail to be shown inline.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The files exist, and the image description pages show a MIME type of <code>unknowncode>/unknown</code> and, in some cases, a warning about potentially dangerous files.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To fix this, run the <code>maintenance/rebuildImages.php</code> script from the command line.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This will set MIME information for each file in the database.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki 1.21 and newer implements [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgResponsiveImages|responsive images]].</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Due to [[phab:T181987|a bug]], if the server locale is set to one that uses commas instead of dots for representing a decimal point, images may not render on some browsers/devices.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This can be confirmed by inspecting a thumbnail of a medium or big image on a page with the browser tools, looking at the HTML code, and see if the <code>srcset</code> attribute contains commas instead of dots when representing the <code>1.5x</code> value.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…are all PNG files not being turned into thumbnails?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">After upgrading to a more recent version of PHP, it is possible a different MimeMagic.php function is being used to detect file MIME types, particularly the built-in PHP function mime_content_type, which fails to detect PNG files.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Search the web for ''mime_content_type png'' for information on fixing this bug at the PHP level, possibly by editing your magic.mime file.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See [[#"File is corrupt or has an invalid extension"|File is corrupt or has an invalid extension]] for more info.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…can't I download MediaWiki {{padright:{{#expr:{{MW stable branch number}}+.01}}|4}}?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki {{padright:{{#expr:{{MW stable branch number}}+.01}}|4}} is in a development state at present, and has not been packaged into a general release.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The code can be [[Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git|downloaded from Git]] if desired.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Or, if you want the latest development version packaged as an archive, get it at {{MW alpha branch link}} (GitHub).</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…doesn't this work? It works on Wikipedia!===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Wikipedia and other Wikimedia web sites use the current version of the code in development; at present, this is MediaWiki {{CURRENTVERSION}}, pulled from the current development branch.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Coupled with the use of several extensions, this means that functionality between these wikis and your particular setup may differ.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*To obtain the current development code, read [[Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git|Download from Git]]
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*To check what version a Wikimedia wiki is running, as well as what extensions are installed, visit the [[Special:Version]] page for that wiki
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* You may also be missing several {{ll|Manual:Extensions|nsp=0}} that are installed on Wikipedia, see [[#Templates imported from other wikis (such as Wikipedia) don't work for me|#Templates imported from other wikis (such as Wikipedia) don't work for me]]
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…do I get a '''403 Forbidden''' error after setting permissions on my Fedora system?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Fedora enables {{ll|SELinux}} by default.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Instructions for setting SELinux permissions for MediaWiki [[Special:MyLanguage/SELinux|are available]].</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…do I get ''Installing some external dependencies (e.g. via composer) is required''?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Many hosting providers only handle zip archives, and we only provide gz compressed tar archives, thus the archives has to be recompressed before uploading.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This should not be a hurdle, but it seems like some archive tools occasionally fail to include all files in large archives.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">When this happen the vendor folder is left out, leaving the user with the rather non-explanatory error message.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Use a command line tool when recompressing the tar archive into a zip archive.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…do I get logged out constantly?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
This is probably related to cookies or session data. See [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Logging in#Log in problems|Log in problems]] for information.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If this is happening constantly to all users, it probably means that caching is misconfigured. Setting <code>$wgSessionCacheType = CACHE_DB;</code> can be used to determine if caching is the cause of the problem. If that solves the problem, you should still investigate what is wrong with your caching configuration.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…is it a good idea to keep user accounts?===
</div>
{{outdated|1=<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Manual edits to rev_user fields in the database; MediaWiki uses the {{ll|Manual:actor table|actor}} table now</span>}}
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">At many times you just want to remove a user account out of the wiki either because it belonged to a spammer account or you just feel like it.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The appropriate choice is to block the account or rename it if needed.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Here is why:</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
''Do I just remove this row from the {{ll|Manual:user table|user}} table?''
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
[[mailarchive:wikitech-l/2007-June/031566.html|Rob Church posted the following]] regarding this issue on the wikitech-l mailing list:
</div>

{{quote|text=
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If the user has made edits, then removing rows from the user table cause theoretical loss of referential integrity.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Now, to be honest with you, I can't think of any conditions where this would cause an actual problem; "undefined behaviour" is the phrase we use.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
What I'd suggest doing, to be on the safe side, is running a couple of quick updates against the database:
</div>

:<syntaxhighlight lang="sql">UPDATE revision SET rev_user = 0 WHERE rev_user = <current_user_id></syntaxhighlight>
:<syntaxhighlight lang="sql">UPDATE archive SET ar_user = 0 WHERE ar_user = <current_user_id></syntaxhighlight>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
What this will do is cause MediaWiki to treat the revisions as having been made anonymously when generating things like page histories, which should eliminate any problems caused by these routines attempting to check user details from other tables.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If the user has caused log entries, i.e. rows in the logging table, or uploaded images, then the situation becomes trickier, as you'll have to start mopping up all the rows everywhere and it could become a bit of a mess, so if the user's done anything other than edit, I would strongly recommend just blocking them indefinitely.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If the username is offensive or undesirable, then you could consider renaming it using the {{ll|Extension:Renameuser|RenameUser}} extension.
</div>
}}

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Another option is to give Admins the {{ll|Manual:User rights|'hideuser'}} right, and indefinitely block the user with the ''Hide username from edits and lists'' option selected.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
{{ll|Extension:UserMerge}} is also useful.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===…is the number of pages so low on Special:Statistics?===
</div> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">[[phab:source/mediawiki/browse/master/includes/DefaultSettings.php|By default]], {{ll|Manual:$wgArticleCountMethod|$wgArticleCountMethod}} is set to <code>link</code>.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This means the number of "Content pages" on the [[Special:Statistics]] page only counts pages which include at least one internal link.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This can be changed by setting {{phpi|$wgArticleCountMethod}} to <code>any</code>.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Afterwards, run {{ll|Manual:UpdateArticleCount.php|updateArticleCount.php}} and/or {{ll|Manual:InitSiteStats.php|initSiteStats.php}}.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">(On Wikimedia websites, <code>initSiteStats.php</code> is run on the 1st and 15th of each month.)</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There might still be wrong behavior, see for example [[phab:T212706]].</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==Anti-spam==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===How do I use $wgSpamRegex to block more than one string?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">{{ll|Manual:$wgSpamRegex|$wgSpamRegex}} is a powerful filter for page content.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Adding multiple items to the regex, however, can be awkward.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Consider this snippet:</span>

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgSpamRegexLines[] = 'display\s*:\s*none';
$wgSpamRegexLines[] = 'overflow\s*:\s*auto';
[...]
$wgSpamRegex = '/(' . implode( '|', $wgSpamRegexLines ) . ')/i';
</syntaxhighlight>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This example code allows convenient addition of additional items to the regex without fiddling about each time.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">It also demonstrates two popular filters, which block some of the most common spam attacks.</span>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See also:</span>'' {{ll|Extension:SpamRegex}}

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===Are there additional ways to fight spam?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See '''{{ll|Manual:Combating spam}}''' for an overview of anti-spam measures such as Captcha, content filtering and restricting edition.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==Anti-vandalism==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See '''{{ll|Manual:Combating vandalism}}''' for hints and suggestions on how to deal with wiki vandalism.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
==Where now?==
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===I've found a bug or have a feature request. Where do I post it?===
</div>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Bugs and feature requests should be posted on {{ll|Phabricator}}.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See [[Special:MyLanguage/How to report a bug|How to report a bug]].</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===I'm getting a strange error. What now?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*See if it is covered by {{ll|Manual:Errors and Symptoms}}
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*Try to find out more about the problem, see {{ll|Manual:How to debug}}
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*See the [[#Still no luck. Where can I ask for help?|section below]] for information on how to contact [[Special:MyLanguage/Developers|developers]] and other knowledgable users.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
=== I tried that but it didn't work ===
</div>

:''<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">I had a problem, I came to this page and it told me how to fix it.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">But it didn't work, the problem is still there!!!!</span>''

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Nine times out of ten this is because you didn't [[#How do I purge a cached page?|clear your cache]].</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The simple test for this is to request a page that hasn't been requested before.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Select the part of the URL in the address bar that contains the page title (e.g. Main_Page).</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Twiddle your fingers on the keyboard for a while, hit enter.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Check if the problem is on that page too.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">MediaWiki uses both a server-side cache and a client-side cache, so clearing your browser cache is often not enough.</span> 
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See the [[#How do I purge a cached page?|relevant entry above]] for more details.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
Here are some other things to check:
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Were you editing the right file? Try inserting some garbage into the file you edited, does it break anything?
</div> 
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
** A great debugging tool in this case is to create a file called phpinfo.php, containing only <syntaxhighlight lang=html inline><?php phpinfo() ?></syntaxhighlight>.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Upload it into your web directory and invoke it with your browser.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Check the document root and the path to php.ini.</span> 
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* Were you editing the right part of the file?
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Did you create a duplicate entry in php.ini?</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Add new settings to the end of LocalSettings.php, not to the beginning.</span> 
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* If you created a .htaccess, are you sure AllowOverrides is on?
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Ask your hosting provider.</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===I have a question not answered here. Where do I go next?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
If you've exhausted the FAQ above, please try the following:
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*Check the [[Special:MyLanguage/Project:Help|other sources of help]] on this site
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*[[Special:Search|Search]] the rest of this site
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*Search the web
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
* [[Special:MyLanguage/How to become a MediaWiki hacker|Dig into the source]]
</div>
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
*See the [[#Still no luck. Where can I ask for help?|section below]] for information on how to contact developers and other knowledgeable users.
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
===Still no luck. Where can I ask for help?===
</div>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
See the support venues listed on {{ll|Communication}}.
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===See also===
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*{{ll|Books about MediaWiki}}

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