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How do I write an asterisk at the beginning of a line in wiki syntax without transforming into a list item?

When using wiki syntax, if I put an asterisk (*) at the beginning of a line, it gets transformed into a unordered list. How is it possible to have the asterisk to remain as it is when at the beginning of a line? Example : *Hello world, this sentence…

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asked Feb 02 '12 at 14:52

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Line by line display of author responsible for contribution on MediaWiki page

Is there a way to show "who contributed to this line" of each line of a page of Wikipedia or of a MediaWiki site? It would show per page and would be similar to the subversion blame tool.

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asked Jun 03 '11 at 18:44

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Find when a phrase was added to a Wikipedia page

Is there any way to find when a specific word or phrase was added to a Wikipedia page? I want to find a way to determine the first revision that contains a match. For example, the first occurrence of webapps.stackexchange.com in a page's…

wikipedia mediawiki version-control

asked Nov 26 '12 at 17:22

Anderson Green

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Is there a way to filter Wikipedia tables?

I'm looking for a way to filter tables often found in Wikipedia articles, so I can compare only the rows (and columns) I'm interested in. Is there either a built-in feature in the Wikipedia engine that I'm not aware of or a browser plugin that…

wikipedia mediawiki greasemonkey

asked Aug 07 '14 at 10:48

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Is there a way to download a list of all Wikipedia categories?

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asked Jun 18 '11 at 10:12

Rich

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Is it possible to search Wikipedia including deleted text?

It is possible to perform search on Wikipedia, which includes history along with current page content. It would be especially good to search in deleted articles or deleted passages of articles. (If no, is it possible to do so with at least Mediawiki…

mediawiki wikipedia

asked May 26 '11 at 20:57

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How can I float the table of contents to the right with MediaWiki

According to the MediaWiki FAQ A TOC is added automatically as soon as you have more than three headers. which is fine and all, but I'd like it floated to the right, so that it does not take up a lot of vertical space at the top of the page. How…

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asked Jul 16 '10 at 07:14

Robert Munteanu

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How can I see all pages that were created by a specific Wikipedia user?

For each user on Wikipedia, I'd like to find which pages were created by those users. How can I find all of the pages that were created by a specific Wikipedia or Mediawiki user?

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asked Aug 11 '12 at 00:03

Anderson Green

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Is it possible to search MediaWiki sites using regular expressions?

I'd like to search for phrases using regular expressions on sites such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Is it possible to do this? Example regex search query: (facebook|google) (corporate history|websites) It's already possible to do the same on…

mediawiki wikipedia regex

asked Aug 02 '12 at 19:26

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Search within a category on a MediaWiki site

I'm trying to search for a keyword within a specific category on Wikimedia Commons. For example, like to search for "red flowers" within "Category:Flowers" so that I can categorize the images accordingly. If this can't be done on Wikimedia Commons,…

search wikipedia mediawiki wikimedia-commons

asked Jun 27 '12 at 15:00

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How can I list all templates available on a MediaWiki Wiki?

I'm editing this MediaWiki Wiki (not Wikipedia etc.) , and I want to have some fancy effect. On Wikipedia there are templates which sorta-kinda-do what I want - but this Wiki doesn't seem to have them. How can I determine which templates it actually…

mediawiki mediawiki-templates

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How to download the wikicode of a Wikipedia page?

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