MediaWiki

Original Help Page

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

Colored Text

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Quote

<blockquote style="background-color: lightgrey; border: solid thin grey;">
This is a test and not a test but it is a test!<br/>
What doesn't kill you can wound you pretty hard and should be avoided!
</blockquote>

This is a test and not a test but it is a test!
What doesn't kill you can wound you pretty hard and should be avoided!

<blockquote style="background-color: lightgrey; border: solid thin grey;text-align: center;">
This is a test and not a test but it is a test!<br/>
What doesn't kill you can wound you pretty hard and should be avoided!
</blockquote>

This is a test and not a test but it is a test!
What doesn't kill you can wound you pretty hard and should be avoided!

Faking Checkmarks

Faking Checkmarks

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 ?

/index.php/Main_Page ParseError from line 1813 of /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/user/User.php: syntax error, unexpected 'else' (T_ELSE)

from: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Up0s3t815a9ovwoi

change

 1808                 } else {
 1809                         // limits for logged-in users
 1810                         if ( isset( $limits['user'] ) ) {
 1811                                 $userLimit = $limits['user'];
 1812                         }
 1813                 } else {

to

 1808         } elseif ( isset( $limits['user'] ) ) {
 1809           
 1810           
 1811                 $userLimit = $limits['user'];
 1812             // }
 1813         } else {

Skin for Mobile Phones

If you change the default skin to "Timeless" your site will be usable from mobile phones without any other changes.

LocalSettings.php, search for "wgDefaultSkin", the line will probably look like

$wgDefaultSkin = "vector";

Change it to

wfLoadSkin("Timeless");
$wgDefaultSkin = "Timeless";

Reload your apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Visit your page with the normal browser and your mobile phone. It WILL look differently but that is the price you pay for not having to install any add-ons or manually change a lot of things.

Horizontal line

This:

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produces this:

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Simple, right?

I read the above and thought, does this "Simple, right?" sound condescending? Perhaps, depending on the mood of the reader. I don't care about your mood but just wanted to say that I made that comment because I was happy it was so easy :-)

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

I had a page with a '?' in the title ("name of the page"). It worked a long time, then - one day - it stopped working. I only got 404 - forbidden when I tried to access that page.

In my case the not working link was:

http://wiki.andreas-duffner.de/index.php/Deciding_which_Source_Management_Tool_to_use%3F

Now, you can access the content of the site with:

http://wiki.andreas-duffner.de/index.php?action=edit&title=Deciding_which_Source_Management_Tool_to_use%3F

and then create a new page without special characters in the page name and just copy/paste from the original.