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Your article States they are no longer in the US....however, for past three yrs they are in the southern tier of NY.

Periodically I want to import a page from another wiki and choose to include templates in the export so that I don't have to manually go fetch a whole chain of things. A common use would something like Template:See Also, which brings over like 20 pages and modules along with it.

The problem is that these imports often overwrite changes to pages that I've modified (e.g. corrected wikipedia specific links). Sometimes they effectively undelete pages I've already deleted.

Is it possible protect a page against import?

Anyone?

PHP Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\includes\profiler\SectionProfiler.php on line 99

PHP Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\includes\profiler\SectionProfiler.php on line 99

PHP Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\includes\profiler\SectionProfiler.php on line 100

PHP Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\includes\profiler\SectionProfiler.php on line 100

PHP Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\includes\profiler\SectionProfiler.php on line 101

PHP Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\includes\profiler\SectionProfiler.php on line 101

Refresh can load it correctly.

When I post changes the connection will reset, even on localhost.

Please include the contents of LocalSettings.php (minus any passwords or secret keys)

How to remove personal identifiable information from a given user.Is there any extensions similar to Extension:RemovePII . How to get the RemovePII for mediawiki 1.39, the default download is compatible only with mediawiki 1.41.

1. How to remove page history older than 2 months?@Osnard

See Suppression.

By default this feature isn't enabled but it is builtin, so you have to gove admins additional user rights

@Bawolff could you please explain how?

1. How to remove page history older than 2 months?

I don't think one can do that. But there is Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php. Be very careful with this, as it will actually remove data. Make a backup before running anything like this.

i activate numbering of paragraphs in my user preferences. Then when displaying the page itself numbering is:

Sommaire
1 2 Welcome to MediaWiki.org help pages
2.1Reading
2.2Editing
2.3Advanced editing
2.4Collaboration
2.5Personal customization
2.6Wiki administration

Strange: There is nothing between level 1 and level 2 on first line and all is under level 2.

Then making modify source + preview with a forced TOC, all is under level 1:

Sommaire
1Welcome to MediaWiki.org help pages
1.1Reading
1.2Editing
1.3Advanced editing
1.4Collaboration
1.5Personal customization
1.6Wiki administration

Can someone analyse and correct the display ? Thanks. --Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 09:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I was trying to find out if it was possible to insert notes instead of citations in VisualEditor instead of having to just do hidden comments from readers. I would like to have it like Wikipedia where you are given the option to easily use templates such as Template:Refn without having to manually do it each time within the wiki editor.

Thanks

I already complained about that, made the ticket and everything. Yet, no solutions were presented.

The tool keeps flagging every single stretch of the text as having 100% to 96% unmodified text, thus blocking the publication of the article. Almost every translation keeps giving me the false-positive of it being an earlier version of the article, thus also impeding the publication of the same.

The tool never saves the infobox, thus forcing me to remake it every time I open the translation. It keeps losing entire paragraphs already translated, thus wasting my time in re-translating the same thing 3 or 4 times.

It also clashes auto translation with my translations, usually on links.

Is this any different from phab:T356356?

No, and nothing was done to correct it.

I can't log in with either my BoxRec Account or my Media Wiki account. I am trying ti upload an image to BoxRec.

Hello,

Mediawiki version: 1.40.1

I am currently trying to add sitelinks to my wikibase. I succeeded by adding wikipedia (I have the box Wikipedia), so I can add for example the sitelinks "enwiki" with the page "Earth" (that is autosuggested by the input) but I encounter this error:

    "errors": [

        {

            "code": "no-external-page",

            "data": {

                "messages": [

                    {

                        "name": "wikibase-api-no-external-page",

                        "parameters": [

                            "enwiki",

                            "Password"

                        ],

                        "html": {

                            "*": "The external client site \"enwiki\" did not provide page information for page \"Earth\"."

                        }

                    }

                ]

            },

            "module": "main",

            "*": "The external client site \"enwiki\" did not provide page information for page \"Earth\"."

        }

    ],

I don't understand the error because I have the autosuggested propositions on the input where I can add the sitelinks. My sites table was filled with the populateSitesTable script.

Thank you in advance for your help,

Best regards,

Antoine

Hello,

I hope this message finds you well.

I am reaching out for some assistance with formulating codes. I have a list of speakers from a book(attached a link for the same) and need a way to automatically calculate the totals in a column within a wiki. Is there any existing functionality in wiki tools that can help with this?

https://vanipedia.org/wiki/User:Anurag/Vanifun

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best regards,

Anurag