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Rasmusen p1vaim: /* To Have External Links open in a new window: */

2022-03-07T17:09:01Z

‎To Have External Links open in a new window:

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How do I make a backup of my wiki? */

2022-03-01T02:02:06Z

‎How do I make a backup of my wiki?

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How do I make a backup of my wiki? */

2022-03-01T01:59:06Z

‎How do I make a backup of my wiki?

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How do I make a backup of my wiki? */

2022-03-01T01:55:48Z

‎How do I make a backup of my wiki?

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How do I make a backup of my wiki? */

2022-03-01T01:54:08Z

‎How do I make a backup of my wiki?

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How do I make a backup of my wiki? */

2022-03-01T01:53:18Z

‎How do I make a backup of my wiki?

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How do I make a quotation indented and in a smaller font? */

2022-03-01T01:51:55Z

‎How do I make a quotation indented and in a smaller font?

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How can I indent paragraphs? */

2020-10-03T23:54:39Z

‎How can I indent paragraphs?

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How can I insert images? */

2020-10-03T23:53:37Z

‎How can I insert images?

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How can I insert a divider line? */

2020-10-03T23:52:42Z

‎How can I insert a divider line?

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 You can then use the HTML tags for images  to insert images that are already uploaded on the web somewhere.
 ==To Have External Links open in a new window: ==
 In localsettings.php, which is in your main mediawiki directory, add at the end  the command:

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 ==How do I make a backup of my wiki?==
-[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example  DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet.  Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell from COMMANDS tab menu, Open Terminal. Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.  First: cd rasmapedia3. Second, cd maintenance. Third, php dumpBackup.php --full > dump.xml. That creates dump.xml in that folder. It seemed to work for me. 33pages for rasmapedia3. Use importDump.php somehow to restore it. But dump.xml is a plain text file, and I can see the info is there.
+[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example  DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet.  Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell from COMMANDS tab menu, Open Terminal. Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.  First: cd rasmapedia3. Second, cd maintenance. Third, php dumpBackup.php --full > dump.xml. That creates dump.xml in that folder. It seemed to work for me. 33pages for rasmapedia3. Use importDump.php somehow to restore it. But dump.xml is a plain text file, and I can see the info is there.  I see that at https://www.freeconvert.com/xml-to-html  I can convert xml to one html file nicely.
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 ==How do I make a backup of my wiki?==
-[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example  DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet.  Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell from COMMANDS tab menu, Open Terminal. Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.  First: cd rasmapedia3. Second, cd maintenance. Third, php dumpBackup.php --full > dump.xml.
+[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example  DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet.  Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell from COMMANDS tab menu, Open Terminal. Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.  First: cd rasmapedia3. Second, cd maintenance. Third, php dumpBackup.php --full > dump.xml. That creates dump.xml in that folder. It seemed to work for me. 33pages for rasmapedia3. Use importDump.php somehow to restore it. But dump.xml is a plain text file, and I can see the info is there.
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 ==How do I make a backup of my wiki?==
-[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example  DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet.  Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell from COMMANDS tab menu, Open Terminal. Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.
+[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example  DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet.  Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell from COMMANDS tab menu, Open Terminal. Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.  First: cd rasmapedia3. Second, cd maintenance. Third, php dumpBackup.php --full > dump.xml.
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 ==How do I make a backup of my wiki?==
-[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example  DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet.  Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell from COMMANDS tab menu, Open Shell . Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.
+[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example  DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet.  Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell from COMMANDS tab menu, Open Terminal. Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.
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		+	[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php#Detailed_example DumpBackup.php] will back up the pages in xml, without the edit histories. etc. I have not tried using it yet. Use WINSCP or another ftp program to go to rasmusen.dreamhosters.com and open a shell. Then issue the Unix commands to create a dump.xml file.
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 == '''How can I indent paragraphs?''' ==
-Create a new page in your wiki called MediaWiki:Common.css. On my wiki, its address is
+Create a new page in your wiki called MediaWiki:Common.css. On my wiki, its address is<br>
 https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css <br>
 That page should consist of the CSS HTML command
-P { text-indent: 2em }
+<pre> P { text-indent: 2em }</pre>
 Put  [[Mediawiki:common.css]] on your main page, or wherever you  want to use for your administrator page so you can easily find it again.
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 ==  How can I insert a divider line?  ==
 Use 4 dashes.

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 == How can I insert images? ==
 In localsettings.php, which is in your main mediawiki directory, add at the end  the command:
 <pre> $wgEnableUploads = true; </pre>
 OR--much more awkward--- insert $wgRawHtml = true; into the file LocalSettings.php in your main MediaWiki directory and the wiki will allow you to insert raw unchecked HTML. However, you must embed your html within  start-html and end-html tags like this:
 <pre><html>     <img src= "http://rasmusen.org/EricRasmusen2007.jpg"   height= 120   align= left>  </html> </pre>
 You can then use the HTML tags for images  to insert images that are already uploaded on the web somewhere.
 ==To Have External Links open in a new window: ==
 In localsettings.php, which is in your main mediawiki directory, add at the end  the command:
 < pre>$wgExternalLinkTarget = '_blank';</pre>
 I asked about this at hte help desk as to how to open internal wiki pages in new windows by default.
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgExternalLinkTarget#Can_internal_links_be_made_to_open_in_new_windows%3F
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 == '''How can I indent paragraphs?''' ==
 Create a new page in your wiki called MediaWiki:Common.css. On my wiki, its address is