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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
Colored Text
<span style="color: Red"> This is a colored text. </span>
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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
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| Row 1 | √ | x | ? |
<span style="color: Green"> √ </span> <span style="color: Red"> x </span> ?
from: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Up0s3t815a9ovwoi
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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:
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
But you can still 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.
