There are two timezone-related settings: $wgLocaltimezone and $wgLocalTZoffset. Set both in LocalSettings.php. $wgLocaltimezone is used for formatting the timezone in signatures, and should be set to the locale name, for example "Europe/Berlin". $wgLocalTZoffset sets the default user preference the number of hours your local time differs from server time, and is used for timestamps seen in recent changes and history views.

No. Wikimedia is the name of a group of wiki-based open-content projects managed by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. MediaWiki is the software developed to meet the needs of these projects. edit] I tried that but it didn't work I had a problem, I came to this page and it told me how to fix it. But it didn't work, the problem is still there! Nine times out of ten this is because you didn't clear your cache. The simple test for this is to request a page that hasn't been requested before.

Set $wgReadOnlyFile in LocalSettings.php to the name of a file, then put the reason for read-only mode inside the file. The contents of the file will be displayed to anyone trying to edit the wiki. Since 1.5 you can set $wgReadOnly to a string describing the reason for read-only mode, instead of creating a file. (Usual wiki markup is allowed in this string).

You can hide the Powered by MediaWiki image by adding the following to your wiki's MediaWiki:Common.css: If you want to remove it completely, you could alter /skins/MonoBook.

Yes, MediaWiki can be installed multiple times in different directories using either the same database with a different set of table prefixes (configurable upon install) or using different databases altogether. Additionally, you may want to make some settings common for all the installations, and have a central place where changes to these can be made. Since the configuration file (LocalSettings.

First you should try a PHP cache engine such as eAccelerator or APC. It will save the parsed PHP scripts and enhance performance a lot (this is something you should use anyway on any PHP installation with non-trivial traffic). Zend Platform also contains a bytecode cache, however its "dynamic content caching" is not supported in MediaWiki at the current time. Memcached will provide some performance benefit, especially for heavily viewed sites.

Under 1.5, to disable all view top tabs, create a new skin according to the instructions in MediaWiki look and feel#Skin and name this MonoBookNoViews. Set this as the default theme. Logged in users will need to change their default theme to see the tabs to edit pages, however. You will need to remove the section of code in the MonoBookNoViews.php file which generates the views (top tabs).

No, remote loading is discouraged. If you're really keen, you can set up a mirror of it and use that.

There is a project at mw:Project:PD help that is creating a self-contained help system, with links to an experimental pywikipedia bot that can mirror that. Mediawiki has problems with autostarting sessions. Check your php.ini (you can run phpinfo() to find where it is located) and look for session.auto_start. It should be '0'. Also, session.use_cookies should be '1'. If you don't have access to php.ini and you're using Apache try to create a .

The latest stable release of MediaWiki can be downloaded from download.wikimedia.org or sourceforge.net. Files are supplied in a .tar.gz archive. MediaWiki can also be obtained direct from our Subversion repository. See also Download

Installing MediaWiki takes between 10 and 30 minutes, and involves uploading/copying files, and running the installer script to configure the software.

In the Map control panel, choose your city or one in the same timezone and set it. Make sure that the timezone setting is correct (for standard time, not DST). If you have a newer version of the control panel, also make sure that the timezone and Daylight Savings checkbox are properly set (I think this may override the Map control panel) Set the GMT bias to the number of minutes east of GMT for your timezone (i.e. -6 hours for CST, so -360), or west of GMT (i.e. a positive multiple of 60).

Our server presents date information based on the timezone, which you've selected while signing up for your website account. If this timezone doesn't correspond with your actual timezone, then that could lead to confusing situations. This kind of confusions can even result in 'missing' out on your event, so make sure you set your timezone correct!

Many Linux distributions provide MediaWiki in a packaged format for that distribution. The MediaWiki development team refers you to your Linux distribution for assistance with installing, configuring or using them. The individual communities & companies who maintain such packages should provide installation instructions.

MediaWiki 1.12 is in a development state at present, and has not been packaged into a general release. The code can be downloaded from Subversion if desired. Wikipedia and other Wikimedia web sites use the current version of the code in development; at present, this is MediaWiki 1.12alpha. Coupled with the use of several extensions, this means that functionality between these wikis and your particular setup may differ.

Replace PST8PDT with the appropriate timezone string. For more information about appropriate timezone strings, see this Wikipedia entry on Zoneinfo. For actual acceptable values, see this list on Wikipedia.

No. Alarms can be set up on disabled, hidden clocks. Unmark clock checkbox in the tree to remove it from your system tray. Alarms will still function for such clocks unless they are disabled. Note that you can disable all alarms for a certain clock by unmarking its Alarms node or disable some alarms individually.

The uClibc time functions get timezone information from the TZ environment variable, as described in the Single Unix Specification Version 3. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html for details on valid settings of TZ. For some additional examples, read http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2002-August/004010.html in the uClibc mailing list archive. You can store the value of TZ in the file '/etc/TZ' and uClibc will then automagically use the specified setting.

A wiki system administrator can block a username on the Special:Blockip page (a restricted special page - look under Special pages in the toolbox). One of the options for the block length is infinite. Alternately, an administrator with direct access to the wiki database can change a user's password. Scrambling a password is simply changing the password to some random text. The script from the "How to change a user's password" FAQ (above) can be used.

quick summary: Look in /usr/share/zoneinfo (in tzdata package under debian). Copy relevant file (CET in my case) to /etc/localtime. A reboot does not appear to be necessary. Kernel source or headers are not in the coLinux source tree. CoLinux has only a patch to create it from vanilla kernel sources. Download coLinux source of your running coLinux version, for example stable-colinux-20071117.tar.gz[2] Unpack source into your home (as user, not root): cd tar xzf stable-colinux-20071117.tar.