How exactly do you use mediawiki?

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How do you allow users of both Vanilla Forum and Mediawiki to use one username and password, like how Wikihow?

Does anyone know how wikihow uses mediawiki and vanilla forum but users only have to register once and can use both software?

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Vanilla forum has a robust single sign on (SSO) API.  You can find more information here: http://vanillaforums...

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Why does Wikia use a heavily modified version of MediaWiki?

Why not just use standard MediaWiki like Wikipedia does? Is a for-profit business model incompatible, license-wise, with vanilla MediaWiki?

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There are no license issues.  The communities at Wikia have different needs and desires from the community...

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post on these websites and put your links like in top 10 companies or regional information.

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One of Wikipedia's goals is to have content that is completely free for anyone to use for any purpose...

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Does Mediawiki use jQuery?

I have realized that there can be a a lot of improvements on Wikipedia. Currently the articles are static and kind of dull. An example improvement can be to display small tool tips on difficult terms that are hyperlinked to another Wikipedia page. The...

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Wikipedia DOES use jQuery. Open the browser console and type: > typeof(jQuery) "function"...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:H... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:T...

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Because Evernote and MediaWiki solve different problems. MediaWiki is for making a wiki. To share information...

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How can I use MediaWiki's API to get all the pages in a specific category?

Here is what I tried and it shows nothing: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.ph...

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You're using "list=allpages", when you should be using "list=categorymembers". Here...

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How to set up Mediawiki infoboxes?

Mediawiki infoboxes. I'd like to use a Wikipedia-style infobox in my own personal Mediawiki. Help? Please? I must be missing something. I have an installation of Mediawiki on my server that I would like to use for cataloging video games. I like how the...

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It's somewhat tricky, as I remember, because you need to be able to use conditional statements in your...

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How Can I Use Wikipedia's Content?

I would like to start a Comic Book Encyclopedia (Which I am calling, for lack of a better name, "Heropedia"), using mediawiki as the engine. I've been a comics fan forever, and a contributor to wikipedia. It's a great project, and I dig it...

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Yes.

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