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I have been working on my Miraheze Maimai Wiki, and I'm currently configuring interface visuals.

I've edited MediaWiki:Copyright-footer, but it affects all skins including Citizen which the wiki is also using. I want the content in MediaWiki:Copyright-footer to show fully on Vector 2022, but only show the license line on Citizen (hiding the additional Sega disclaimer).

How can I set skin-specific styles or footer content so they don't affect each other?

Here's an example of what I'm trying to achieve: https://ibb.co/Pvy3sSbC.

Thanks.—Chernobox (talk) 09:55, 18 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Oh, I've found the solution, THX — Chernobox (talk) 10:46, 20 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

For posterity, the answer was to enclose the text in a span tag then hide it per skin by CSS. See and https://maimai.miraheze.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Citizen.css. Jonathan3 (talk) 20:19, 20 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. Chernobox (talk) 01:12, 27 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

I'm an editor on AllTheTropes.org which is part of Miraheze and on MediaWiki 1.46.0 (93bcca0).

Miraheze updated to the new version yesterday. We use Extension:Subpage Fun heavily because of the format of our wiki, and it's suddenly no longer working: it's transcluded in, among other things, our Recapfooter template, and I realized around midday today that when you save a page that includes that template, Template:TOPLEVELPAGE is coming up redlinked as Template:TOPLEVELPAGE. StarSword (talk) 03:06, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Update, Miraheze has now fixed the issue internally. StarSword (talk) 18:01, 5 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

on the mobile page the infoboxes are collapsed by default and cannot be expanded in any way. how can i fix this? it only happens on mobile and it didn’t happen before Frenkino (talk) 12:18, 28 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

I was going to edit Himouto! Umaru-chan Wiki as usual, but unable to do due to a message appear like this:

[bc3a0d5b7f9d6fc98273eb7b] 2026-09-28 15:22:50: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError"

I don't know where's the place of the problem, and please don't tell me that the solve is in LocalSetting.php. I only had a phone and edit the wiki with it all the time. — Quokrom (talk) 15:58, 28 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Quokrom You need to contact the maintainers of that wiki so they can fix their issue. See Manual:How_to_debug to get a stacktrace for that exception. Malyacko (talk) 08:24, 10 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, I already do that btw. Also, the wiki is gone now. — Quokrom (talk) 22:41, 10 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

i want to use parsoid in a PHP file. Can you show me how to? For example ~2026-52165-08 (talk) 04:53, 29 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

My wiki stays at 1.46.0 for the time being. No help needed. This is just a heads-up.

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Fatal error in EditPage.php: Call to a member function getPage() on null during action=submit (MediaWiki 1.46.1)

Description:

After performing a fresh installation and upgrading from MediaWiki 1.46.0 to 1.46.1, editing existing pages or creating new pages fails completely. Clicking "Save changes" (action=submit) triggers a fatal exception.

Environment:

• MediaWiki Version: 1.46.1 (upgraded from 1.46.0)
• PHP Version: 8.3.33 (Running via fpm-fcgi on a shared hosting environment)
• Database: MySQL
• Extensions: None installed (Vanilla MediaWiki core configuration)
• Skins used: Vector-2022 / Timeless

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open any page or attempt to create a new page in edit mode.
2. Enter content and click on "Save changes" (or Preview, triggering action=submit).

Expected result:

The page edits should be submitted and saved to the database successfully.

Actual result:

The application crashes instantly with a fatal exception. Downgrading the core files back to 1.46.0 immediately resolves the issue using the exact same database and configuration.

Error Stacktrace:

text

Error: Call to a member function getPage() on null

Backtrace:
from /wb/includes/EditPage/EditPage.php(2521)
#0 /wb/includes/EditPage/EditPage.php(2291): MediaWiki\EditPage\EditPage->getPostMergeChecksRunner(MediaWiki\Content\WikitextContent, string)
#1 /wb/includes/EditPage/EditPage.php(1736): MediaWiki\EditPage\EditPage->internalAttemptSave(array, bool, bool)
#2 /wb/includes/EditPage/EditPage.php(661): MediaWiki\EditPage\EditPage->attemptSave(array)
#3 /wb/includes/Actions/EditAction.php(55): MediaWiki\EditPage\EditPage->edit()
#4 /wb/includes/Actions/SubmitAction.php(29): MediaWiki\Actions\EditAction->show()
#5 /wb/includes/Actions/ActionEntryPoint.php(753): MediaWiki\Actions\SubmitAction->show()
#6 /wb/includes/Actions/ActionEntryPoint.php(511): MediaWiki\Actions\ActionEntryPoint->performAction(MediaWiki\Page\Article, MediaWiki\Title\Title)
#7 /wb/includes/Actions/ActionEntryPoint.php(145): MediaWiki\Actions\ActionEntryPoint->performRequest()
#8 /wb/includes/MediaWikiEntryPoint.php(180): MediaWiki\Actions\ActionEntryPoint->execute()
#9 /wb/index.php(44): MediaWiki\MediaWikiEntryPoint->run()
#10 {main}

Additional Notes:

The issue seems to be located within getPostMergeChecksRunner in EditPage.php on line 2521, where the page context object evaluates to null during specific background POST requests under PHP-FPM environments. ~2026-53179-49 (talk) 22:06, 2 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

I tried applying the 1.46.1 update to my 1.46.0 installation and ran into the same error. I've taken everything back to 1.46.0 for now. Huwmanbeing (talk) 13:08, 6 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Same error here (running PHP-FPM). Ralfk (talk) 07:02, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Why would you want to upgrade to 1.46.1? 1.46.2 has been out for a week and fixes phab:T439973. Malyacko (talk) 08:23, 10 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, thanks for that hint (even though 1.46.2 was not officially announced via mailing list yet). 1.46.2 works. Ralfk (talk) 08:40, 10 October 2026 (UTC)Reply