MediaWiki-l November 2025

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Are there any good resources for writing scripts and gadgets
by Arcane 21 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

I'm currently trying to adapt several gadgets that are meant for wikis using the Monobook/Vector skins to the Monaco skin, and so far, I've managed to successfully port over the UTC Clock gadget and Sandbox page gadget to Monaco, but aside from those I've been having trouble since, frankly, my knowledge of Javascript/JQuery is slim and I'm not familiar with all the variables used in writing user scripts. I've fairly decent with CSS style sheets, but I still need help with Javascript, so does anyone know of some good resources I could look into, preferably tailored for writing scripts on MediaWiki? Also, if anyone wants to see what I have done so far (and have released publicly), the wiki I have been testing my live gadget/user script code on is here: https://mediawikitesters.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page

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MediaWiki 1.45.0-rc.0 is ready for testing
by Mateus Santos 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.45.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.45.0. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As with every release of MediaWiki, a large number of changes have landed in the six months of development (over 2300 commits since 1.44.0 was cut), and you should read over the preliminary release notes as part of assuring yourself of areas that may have issues with your configuration, your skins, and/or your extensions. As always, please try out the release candidate in a test environment and do report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.45-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release, to make sure that we find them as quickly as possible. It is expected that MediaWiki *1.45 will become final in 2 weeks*. This date may slip if blockers are identified. Preliminary release notes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_45/RELEASE-NOTES-1.45 Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.45-release/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.45-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.0-rc.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.0-rc.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-core-1.45.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-core-1.45.0-rc.0.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-core-1.45.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-core-1.45.0-rc.0.zi… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.0-rc.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.0-rc.0.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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PHP Warning: Constant MW_INSTALL_PATH already defined
by MI 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Since I upgraded mediawiki from v. 1.35 to v. 1.39, I get this error when running a script to purge the cache. The command producing the error is echo "Main_Page" | php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/purgeList.php The full error is PHP Warning: Constant MW_INSTALL_PATH already defined in /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php on line 25 Indeed I have this on lines 21 to 25 in LocalSettings.php: # We define this to allow the configuration file to be explicitly. # located in /etc/mediawiki. # Change this if you are setting up multisite wikis on your server. define('MW_INSTALL_PATH','/docs/www-wiki'); I had this through many MW versions over the years, and I don't think I can remove it. How can I get rid of this error? (The purge script runs every night from crontab, so I get a mail every day with this "error". And of course I don't want to just suppress any errors by redirecting stderr) Thanks, MI

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MediaWiki 1.45-beta has been branched
by Mateus Santos 04 Nov '25

04 Nov '25

Hey all, This is a quick note to highlight that we've created the REL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git [0]. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, which should be out in late November 2025, approximately six months after MediaWiki 1.44.0. The branches reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for the release, 1.45.0-wmf.25, which was deployed to Wikimedia wikis on Tuesday, 28 October 2025, for MediaWiki itself and those extensions and skins available there. From now on, patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the MediaWiki 1.46 release, unless specifically backported [1]. If you are working on a critical bug fix that will affect the code in the release, once the patch has been merged into the development branch, you should propose it for backporting by cherry-picking to the REL1_45 branch. If you are working on a new feature, that should now not be backported. If you have an urgent case where the work should block release for everyone else, please file a task against the `mw 1.45-release` project on Phabricator [2]. If you have tickets that are tagged for `mw-1.45-release`, please finish them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few days. We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.45.0-rc.0, in two weeks' time, and if all goes well, to then release MediaWiki 1.45.0 a few weeks after that. [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.45-release/ Best regards, -- Mateus Santos (he/him) Product Manager MediaWiki Engineering Group

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