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How do i add the below new extensions in MediaWiki? *.xmcd and *.mcd for MathCad source files *.m and *.dat for Matlab source files. I have already few extensions in LocalSettings.php mentioned below $wgFileExtensions = array_merge( $wgFileExtensions, array( 'doc','pdf', 'ppt', 'zip', 'svg', 'xls', 'vsd', 'vdx', 'docx', 'xlsx', 'pptx') ); Thanks in advance Jayaprabu R If I've understood correctly, you simply add extensions as follows: $wgFileExtensions = array_merge( $wgFileExtensions, array( 'doc','pdf', 'ppt', 'zip', 'svg', 'xls', 'vsd', 'vdx', 'docx', 'xlsx', 'pptx', 'xmcd' , 'mcd' , 'm' ,

I was just wondering if I can enhance the search facility in MediaWiki, like returning a suggested Result Set closest to the Search Key instead of return 0 results page. For eg. I have created the ff: articles, Guidelines to Database Management Guidelines to SQL Reporting But when I try to search just by entering Guidelines , instead of showing me or suggesting me something close, it returns 0 results prompting me if I want to create it. Would it be a little suggestive, can I make it be a little suggestive? Try installing Lucene in place of the default MediaWiki search engine, which merely

I would like to be send an email to an address that mediawiki can pick up and have mediawiki take it and generate a new page from it as a starting point. More complicated stuff like categories can come later. I have searched around on the web and not found anything obvious. I have not developed against mediawiki before but am an able and willing developer. Thanks for any assistance provided. There is this extension - EmailToWiki It relies on a POP3 account being available and has been in Beta for a long time, but it may be a good start for what you want to do. Have a daemon of some sort

I am trying to add a div to my sidebar and I only want this block to show to administrators. How can I check if a user is an administrator in php? I am trying to add this to myskin.php file and dont know how to do it. I have been using something like this to check if a user is logged in, <?php if($this->data['loggedin']) { ?> Is there anything similar to that to check if that user is a sysop? The code in the answer by *blackops_programmer* checks whether the user can protect pages. Per default, that would be sysops, but the permission can be assigned or removed from any group. If what you want

I used the "action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=%@&format=json&redirects" api for getting the details about Anil_Ambani. In response i got the following dictionary <i> query = { normalized = ( { from = "Anil_Ambani"; to = "Anil Ambani"; } ); pages = { 1222313 = { ns = 0; pageid = 1222313; revisions = ( { "*" = "{{BLP sources|date=June 2012}}\n{{Infobox person\n| name = Anil Ambani \n| image =AnilAmbani.jpg\n| image_size = \n| caption = Ambani in 2009\n| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|6|4|df=y}}\n| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]\n| nationality =

I've implemented Short URL for my mediawiki and I have these in htaccess that works: RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L] RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d RewriteRule ^/?w/images/thumb/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2 [L,QSA,B] RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d RewriteRule ^/?w/images/thumb/archive/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2