Archive for March, 2012

MediaWiki – List all namespaces and their ID numbers

Friday, March 23, 2012 13:13 No Comments

To list all available namespaces and their ID numbers in MediaWiki you have to query MediaWiki’s api. Simpy open the following address in your browser: http://www.mywebsite.tld/mediawiki_installation/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces *replacing http://www.mywebsite.tld/mediawiki_installation with the path to your MediaWiki page. This will return a XML representation of Namespaces data.

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Linux Ubuntu – User not in the sudoers file

Friday, March 23, 2012 10:51 No Comments

If your user is not in the sudoers file you won’t be able to do any root tasks. To fix this: 1. Boot into the recovery mode and load the root console. (Hold left shift on boot to show the Grub loader) 2. To make the file system writable execute: mount -o remount,rw / 3. [...]

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