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I just need something to create a wiki, that anybody can edit, just like Wikipedia. Could you help me with that? I'm using a mobile device that runs Android, could you help me with that? それを手伝ってくれますか？ ~2025-36392-66 (talk) 22:02, 24 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@~2025-36392-66 We do not offer hosting for wikis, we just make the software that runs them. You might want to look at Professional development and consulting for someone to assist you professionally with this. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 19:59, 26 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

I'm a person who is a broadcaster in my school. Are there free wiki farms for me to create a wiki, for the 2^nd time? 私は学校で放送委員をいるひとです。2回目のためにウィキを作る無料ウィキファームはありますか？ ~2025-36392-66 (talk) 02:54, 10 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello

I am not sure if this is the right place, but I was sent here by the LSJ.gr website when I clicked its Help link. It is currently not working properly, but it does not have its own Contact that link I can find. When I do a word search and it returns more than 20 results and I try to view them it returns "Secure Connection Failed". It has been doing that for over a month or two now. perseus.tufts.edu has similar ongoing problems with its search that are botched / fixed by deleting extraneous text within the address of the following result pages. There seem to be some posts about LSJ.gr being hacked, but nothing about this effecting being able to view search results.

Is there a similar botch / fix for this, is it an ongoing problem at their end that time and patience will eventually fix, or is it some sort of stupid firewall / security / cookie problem at mine? All help, information or redirections gratefully received.

Thx

Nobbo69 (talk) 10:08, 28 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Nobbo69 It is not really the right place, we are just the support forum for the mediawiki software, not the projects that are built with it. I did find: https://lsj.gr/wiki/LSJ:About#People, which you maybe can look into to find support. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 15:43, 31 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

I know from Project:Support_desk/Archive_24#Is_Manual:$wgAutoCreateTempUser_still_"experimental"? that this setting is no longer considered experimental, but I am on MW1.43 so wonder whether it would be OK to enable the setting on my wiki. Thanks. Jonathan3 (talk) 11:51, 29 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

I would personally consider it to be 'stable' starting from 1.45. wgAutoCreateTempUser will work mostly starting from 1.43, but it might not be reliable, still not provide the correct tools for administrators etc. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 10:09, 1 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. I'll hold off on this one for now then. Jonathan3 (talk) 13:47, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_br.asp

Edit source, e.g. Wikipedia needs <br> (break line) to create a new line (not a paragraph: 2 new lines), just a new line is not interpreted: still 1 line.

Why? It's not WYSIWYG... Jebez1 (talk) 14:13, 31 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

The primary answer to that would be.. To change it now, would break everything that was written before. As to why it is not a configuration option (the logical next best thing) is that there are actually LOTS of places inside the parser where this is an assumption, so even making that configurable is a pretty difficult process that probably few people want to pick up as a side project. If this is something you would like to see for you OWN wiki, i might suggest hiring a professional company to make such a thing a configuration option for your wiki. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 15:40, 31 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

It's related to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Help_talk:Editing#%3Cbr%3E_works_not_well.

I understand it would break that was written before, if someone source wrotes new lines e.g.

hello

magic

world

& want rendered hello magic world in 1 line as actually: no, 3 lines as the source.

My question is: why this someone source writes new lines as above, why not he source writes in just 1 line?

What is the purpose of not interpreting the new lines, <br> needed? Jebez1 (talk) 16:15, 31 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

So two reasons. 1. In HTML which of course is the spark of something like wikimarkup, a line break has no 'meaning'. That's a very technical reason. But 2, the point of wikis was to write prose. To write in paragraphs. So to encourage that, a parapgraph was essentially the only desirable output when people were writing. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 09:49, 1 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

If you only want to change things in specific places, you could use Extension:Poem. Jonathan3 (talk) 13:47, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

wiki.archlinux.org has not this extension, & I'm not the boss of this web site...

If I'm, better just interpret the new lines, no need <br> ... Jebez1 (talk) 20:17, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello! I have a question about pywikibot. What is the module in pywikibot, what can undo changes? Julius 12345 (talk) 15:36, 31 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

I am sorry if this section is on wrong place. Julius 12345 (talk) 15:37, 31 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Maybe Manual:Pywikibot/revertbot.py? Jonathan3 (talk) 13:46, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, i am currently installing mediawiki on my domain because i wanted to, and while things were going well, i got a internal error for some reason in the middle of the installation, the Name part to be exact. I can't get to the next part of the installation, and i am having problems.
I am using SQlite, and the error message is: [aX5IvnJDOhv6BHdyIcwRMwAAAAE] /mediawiki-1.45.1/mw-config/index.php?page=Name Error: Failed opening required. Do you guys have a fix for this?
I am also using the current version of MediaWiki, which is 1.45.1. Orsomeburger (talk) 18:32, 31 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

I'm guessing it is an issue with the current version. Orsomeburger (talk) 21:50, 31 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Still showing the same error, and i am still using SQlite. Does anybody have a fix for this yet? Is it an issue with my domain, mediawiki itself, what is happening? Orsomeburger (talk) 00:25, 4 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Update: I tried installing MediaWiki via the command line, and put a link to my domain. Basically, the installation with the command line worked, and i did put the LocalSettings.php in the files but for some reason now it shows "MediaWiki internal error." and a bunch of code. Does anybody know how to fix this now? Orsomeburger (talk) 00:57, 4 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Here is the error code. Original exception: [aYKZoQ16urqfA4qjyqPxEgAAAAU] /wiki/ Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnectionError: Cannot access the database: Connection refused (127.0.0.1) Orsomeburger (talk) 00:58, 4 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

That sounds like your database connection is broken. Malyacko (talk) 08:34, 4 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Nevermind, it is fixed now. All i had to do is move the mediawiki files to the main domain. There are no errors now. Yes, i am still using SQlite Orsomeburger (talk) 01:11, 5 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

My wiki is version 1.33.1. I've been using it for the past five years without much issue. However, at some point during this past month, certain characters began displaying as garbled text (•) - examples being bullet points (•), runes (ᚨ), and certain apostrophes (’). I haven't manually updated anything lately and I'm fairly tech illiterate when it comes to Mediawiki's inner-workings so I'm not sure why exactly this is happening. If anyone has an explanation that'd be greatly appreciated.

Here's a link to a page where the issue is fairly noticeable - johnisdead.withinhubris.com/Videos ~2026-73279-2 (talk) 18:33, 2 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Sounds like invalid encoding - did you change anything? Also you do need to upgrade - 1.33.1 is quite outdated by now. Leaderboard (talk) 15:18, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Found the issue - turns out one of my extensions, LinkTarget, was being loaded in a strange way in my LocalSettings.php.

For some reason I was using require_once "$IP/extensions/SimpleTooltip/SimpleTooltip.php"; instead of wfLoadExtension( 'LinkTarget' );. Making that change fixed the issue.

Also yeah, I probably should. Just now updated to 1.35.0 and will try to get a newer version put in place soon. Thanks. ~2026-73279-2 (talk) 17:36, 5 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I've recently met the error while migrating DB while updating the Wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk/Archive_24#h-DBQueryError_while_migrating_table_'categoryLinks'_on_PostgreSQL-20251226155200

After no answer to that ticket I've tried to fix the broken 'categoryLinks' migration script myself excluding empty "AND ()" from that query (if $ns is null then don't include the condition into the query). The fix worked and I've finally updated the Wiki from 1.44.2 to 1.45.1 with no errors. But since the update almost all Category pages are empty but some contains very few page links. Maintenance scripts "rebuildall" and "refreshLinks" doesn't help. How can I fix the categories?

Also I tried to create new page with category link but it didn't show in the on the Category page. Categories are broken in general? MidnightLG (talk) 13:36, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I had a similar problem on upgrading from 1.39 to 1.43 in that a lot of pages were uncategorised and those maintenance scripts didn't help. The obvious differences are that you edited the update script and categorisation now doesn't seem to work for you at all.

Anyway, what I did was use AWB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser) to null edit every relevant page. I think alternatively you could use pywikibot to "touch" all pages. Jonathan3 (talk) 13:44, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Editing the page manually like mixing the Category links order in the end of the page and saving it doesn't help. Then I guess that touching pages with the bot won't help either. I also have few Categories that contains some page links but not all the pages that must be linked there. MidnightLG (talk) 13:56, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Problem was caused by invalid value in field linktarget.lt_namespace with value 0 instead of 14 for categorylinks that linked to lt_id of this table. So, error was caused by broken migration scripts. Solved by deletion of the invalid rows in both linktarget and categorylinks tables, then launching refreshLinks and recountCategories scripts. Topic can be closed. MidnightLG (talk) 17:31, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I've filed this as phab:T416413. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 23:00, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I've tried to improve the documentation on the use of Redis for MediaWiki sites, though I do hope others more knowledgeable than me can jump in and have a better look at it.

Because information on using cronjobs for the job runner is few and far between, I hesitantly gave ChatGPT a try and one of the suggestions it gave surprised me. My impression, as was that of others, is that you need both redisJobRunnerService and redisJobChronService to run in the background. What ChatGPT suggested, however, is that you can use one or the other: either redisJobRunnerService if you can ensure it runs continuously, or redisJobChronService if you run it every 2 minutes or so. https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-services-jobrunner does not make that claim but then it does not say anything to the contrary either, merely that those services are available and what they do.

Any clarification would be welcome! Rand(1,2022) (talk) 11:44, 4 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

composer update --no-dev fails:

• - Root composer.json requires phpunit/phpunit 9.6.21 (exact version match: 9.6.21 or 9.6.21.0), found phpunit/phpunit[9.6.21] but these were not loaded, because they are affected by security advisories ("PKSA-z3gr-8qht-p93v"). Go to https://packagist.org/security-advisories/ to find advisory details. To ignore the advisories, add them to the audit "ignore" config. To turn the feature off entirely, you can set "block-insecure" to false in your "audit" config.
• Problem 2
• - Root composer.json requires johnkary/phpunit-speedtrap ^4.0 -> satisfiable by johnkary/phpunit-speedtrap[v4.0.0, v4.0.1].
• - johnkary/phpunit-speedtrap[v4.0.0, ..., v4.0.1] require phpunit/phpunit ^7.0 || ^8.0 || ^9.0 -> found phpunit/phpunit[7.0.0, ..., 7.5.20, 8.0.0, ..., 8.5.52, 9.0.0, ..., 9.6.34] but these were not loaded, because they are affected by security advisories ("PKSA-z3gr-8qht-p93v"). Go to https://packagist.org/security-advisories/ to find advisory details. To ignore the advisories, add them to the audit "ignore" config. To turn the feature off entirely, you can set "block-insecure" to false in your "audit" config.
• Running update with --no-dev does not mean require-dev is ignored, it just means the packages will not be installed. If dev requirements are blocking the update you have to resolve those problems.

i overcame with the following though isn't good idea in production: composer install --no-dev --no-security-blocking, but i will set up crom scratch

MW: 1.45.1, PHP 8.3.30

Composer version 2.9.5 2026-01-29 11:40:53

PHP version 8.3.30 (/opt/plesk/php/8.3/bin/php)

any ideas ? ~2026-83879-3 (talk) 10:27, 7 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

this error occurred when i tried to add WikiBase extension --- see Wikibase/Installation - MediaWiki ~2026-83879-3 (talk) 10:42, 7 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I need help with creating and inserting a "Featured Article" box into my Fandom box on my Wiki Fandom page. I also need help inserting a Discord Server on my wiki, along with a star that goes along with my Wiki Fandom

ER98765 (talk) 16:51, 8 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, does anyone know where the pre-1.19 versions of the CheckUser extension are? this is the earliest version I can find. ~2026-87581-7 (talk) 20:48, 8 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Disregard that, I found them here. ~2026-87581-7 (talk) 21:01, 8 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

fighting since 1 hour: I check Special:NamespaceInfo here on mediawiki.org but all NS are in english; please where do I find that the NS "Help" is translated as "Aide" (in french)  ? Thanks. --Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 13:13, 9 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

You can see that on French Wikipedia: fr:Spécial:NamespaceInfo, or any wiki where French is used as content language. – Ammarpad (talk) 18:03, 10 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I just set up my wiki recently Version: 1.45.1 and I don't seem to have the special page account security. ~2026-89092-6 (talk) 18:32, 9 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

It's provided by Extension:OATHAuth. – Ammarpad (talk) 18:08, 10 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@~2026-89092-6 were you expecting it because something in the new wiki you setup linked you to that page ? Or because you saw that page on another wiki, or read it somewhere in the documentation ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 11:05, 12 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I was looking up how to add 2FA to my page and everything I kept finding said it would need to be setup in Special:Account Security. No one said it wasn't just part of the wiki. Thank you for letting me know I will add the extension. ~2026-89092-6 (talk) 16:12, 12 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Followed all of the instructions exactly, and getting error:

Mail object returned error: Failed to connect to smtp.gmail.com:465 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: Network is unreachable (code: -1, response: )]

The one possibility thought of is that I'm trying to set things up so that my user account's personal email (set in preferences) is different from the site email ($wgPasswordSender).. perhaps MediaWiki doesn't support this? (i.e. is it required that the initial sysadmin user account have the same email address as the internal site email?) ~2026-92410-1 (talk) 23:11, 10 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I changed Translations:Template:Main page/ca. But the Main page (or MediaWiki) page doesn't refresh when the language is the Catalan (MediaWiki/ca does it). Can you refresh it? Thank you very much. Jmarchn (talk) 07:58, 13 February 2026 (UTC)Reply