MediaWiki

1. Disable history and special pages for most users bill_tech OP — 4/28/25, 8:40 AM Hello, I have bots visiting my site that are ignoring my robots.txt and hence are crawling every link on my site, including all the "view history" links etc. This activity is over-loading my site. Can anyone recommend the best practice for limiting history, etc. to logged in users (or removing those links from the screen)?
   1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Handling_web_crawlers via SomeRandomDeveloper — 4/29/25, 10:38 AM
2. Internal error after update Varis OP — 5/17/25, 10:38 PM Hi, I updated PHP + Mediawiki and now it appears broken.
   1. bawolff — 5/17/25, 10:40 PM Please set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; in LocalSettings.php The most common cause for something like this is updating mediawiki without also updating extensions. Extension versions need to be in sync with mediawiki version.
3. Issues with ShortUrl (Clean URL's like /title) Atmois[ATL] OP — 4/24/25, 5:51 PM Hey, I am using the Manual:ShortUrl for my wiki and buttons such as Edit or History link to https://atl.wiki/?title=Test&action=edit rather than https://atl.wiki/Test?action=edit.  Would anyone know how to get it working so the buttons lead to the second one? We use Apache on Ubuntu, below I have put some relevant sections of the PHP settings for MediaWiki and Apache. We have our MediaWiki installed in /var/www/mediawiki with all files in the root.
4. Any Formal Courses to learn MediaWiki? [1] There's also Introduction to MediaWiki: Core concepts (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JnIjpRvgNY and Introduction to MediaWiki: Wikipedia's extensions (Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xYbqbabTwI
5. Intro to Generative AI and Generating Wiki Pages by Gunjan Bhattarai [2] > Creating a question & answer chatbot to search wikis [3] by MyWikis Jeff
6. AI at MyWikis Apr 28, 2024
7. MediaWiki U&D Con Fall 2024 - Day 2 - WikiChat, Jeffrey Wang, MyWikis Nov 26, 2024
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