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This is an index of all supported configuration settings based on the
Never edit DefaultSettings; copy appropriate lines to LocalSettings.php instead and amend them as appropriate.
This index is in alphabetical order (ignoring the $wg prefix). Note that the only setting without this prefix is , which is listed under .
 Note: Settings removed in versions of MediaWiki prior to 1.19 are no longer listed here. Please use the search box to find the relevant manual page (e.g. Manual:$wgAllowAnonymousMinor).
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- Number of accounts each IP address may create, 0 to disable. Requires memcached.
- Paths for various user actions. Used to make URLS prettier.
- Array of allowed values for the "action" parameter for normal pages.
- The number of days within which a person must make edits to be considered an "active" user
- Keep track which messages are requested and load only most used messages.
- Controls who can add specific groups using .
- Additional email parameters, will be passed as the last argument to mail() PHP function call.
- Set to true to have nicer highlighted text in search results.
- Feed types that should be provided by default.
- Allows statistics to be aggregated over more than one wiki when using udp logging.
- allow finer control over usergroup assignment.
- Set to true to have nicer highligted text in search results.
- List of functions in AjaxFunctions.php that are callable via .
- Use AJAX to preview licensing for uploads.
- Enable AJAX check for file overwrite, pre-upload.
- Enable watching/unwatching pages using AJAX.
- Make all database connections secretly go to localhost. Useful for debugging.
- Allow asynchronous copy uploads.
- Allow to filter the recentchanges by a category or one of its sub(subsubsub...)categories
- (removed in 1.22) Allow chunked uploading.
- Allow uploads from URLs as well as local files.
- Allows use of DISPLAYTITLE magic word.
- Determines whether or not MediaWiki will allow external images to be rendered inline with text.
is false, you can specify exceptions here.
- Set to true to enable HTML emails.
- Enable file renaming.
- Allow &img& tag to be used in wikitext.
- Allow Java archive uploads.
- Enable HTML5 microdata attributes for use in wikitext.
- (removed in 1.20) Allow the "info" action.
- (removed in 1.22) Policies for how each preference is allowed to be changed, in the presence of external authentication.
- Enable RDFa attributes for use in wikitext.
- (removed in 1.21) Whether or not to allow real name fields.
- Allow database schema updates to be executed with update.php script.
- Allow site-wide CSS on restricted special pages.
- Allow other parser functions like "pagesinnamespace".
- Allow special page inclusions such as {{Special:Allpages}}.
- Allow &title& tag in SVG files.
- Allow user Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Allow user preferences implemented in CSS.
- Allow user JavaScript pages
- Whether to always convert certain Unicode sequences to modern ones regardless of the content language.
- Always use Tidy
- Use 'mdy' instead of 'dmy' as the default date format, e.g. 'May 12' instead of '12 May'.
- (removed in 1.25) Anti-lock flags.
- Internal name of virus scanner.
- Determines if a failed virus scan (AV_SCAN_FAILED) will cause the file to be rejected.
- Configuration for different virus scanners.
- Set the timeout for the API help text cache. Set to 0 to disable caching of API help text.
- API format module extensions.
- Control framing of api pages.
- (removed in 1.21) This setting is ignored
- Maximum number of rows to scan in API database queries.
- Maximum size (in bytes) of an API result.
- The maximum number of uncached diffs that can be retrieved in one API request.
- API list module extensions.
- API meta module extensions.
- API module extensions.
- API prop module extensions.
- Log file or URL (TCP or UDP) to log API requests to.
- Optional URL to an icon to use when bookmarking to the home screen on Apple handheld devices.
- Apply IP address
also to users having a blocked IP in their XFF header.
- Method used to determine if a page in a content namespace should be counted as a valid article.
- The URL template used to create article links.
- Allow customisation of robot policies on a per-article basis.
- Timeout for asynchronous HTTP requests.
- Authentication plugin. See .
- Number of seconds before autoblock entries expire
- Number of seconds an account is required to age before it's given the implicit 'autoconfirmed' group membership.
- Number of edits an account requires before passing both this AND the time requirement ($wgAutoConfirmAge) is needed
- (removed in 1.22) Policy to create new accounts with external authentication.
- Array mapping class names to filenames, for autoloading.
- Array mapping class names to filenames, for autoloading.
- Conditions of automatic promotion of user to specific groups
- Conditions of automatic promotion of user to specific groups that are done only once.
- Whether to put user rights log entries for autopromotion in recent changes.
- (removed in 1.23) Better directionality support.
- Allow blocked users to edit their talk pages
- Maximum CIDR range when blocking an IP range.
- Blocked users will not be allowed to login
- (removed in 1.22) Automatic open proxy test on edit.
- Break out of framesets. This can be used to prevent external sites from framing your site with ads.
- Browser blacklist for non-Unicode-compliant browsers.
- (removed in 1.21) Rollback a few bugs (features) related to language variant conversion introduced in 1.19
- Directory for caching interface messages in the local filesystem.
- Set this to current time to invalidate all prior cached pages.
- Allow client-side caching of pages
- Custom value for the cache key prefix.
- Cache shared metadata in memcached.
- A list of cookies that influence the cache.
- Whether to enable canonical language links in meta data.
- Server name with protocol to use for links to the wiki from other places
- Per namespace configuration for .
- Set this to false to avoid forcing the first letter of links to capitals.
- Restriction levels that can be used with cascading protection
- What collation categories use to sort with
- On category pages, show thumbnail gallery for images belonging to that category instead of listing them as articles.
- Paging limit for items in categories.
- Check if the file extension is allowed on upload.
- Make filling in the "reason" field for
checks compulsory ().
- Substitute templates in signatures.
- (removed in 1.20.1) Put as much as possible presentational HTML attributes in CSS.
- Fudge time to add to cache timestamps to adjust for clock skew.
- Whether to color command-line error messages.
- Assume a dark terminal background for maintenance scripts.
- Indicates whether MW is running in command-line mode. Should never be set manually!
- (removed in 1.24) A list of files that should be compiled into a HipHop build, in addition to those listed in $wgAutoloadClasses.
- Compress new page revisions if possible
- Create a site configuration object. Not used for much in a default install.
- Registry of factory functions to create config objects
- Mapping of content type handlers
- How to react if a plain text version of a non-text
is requested using ContentHandler::getContentText()
- Whether to use the database fields introduced by the ContentHandler facility
- Namespaces which are considered to contain real content, or
- Explicit domain for login cookies.
- Number of seconds before HTTP cookies expire
- Set the httpOnly flag on all cookies set by MediaWiki (to prevent access from JavaScript).
- Explicitly declared "path" for cookies at the cookie domain
- Custom cookie prefix.
- Whether cookies are secured.
- (deprecated in 1.17) Set this to some HTML to override the rights icon with an arbitrary logo.
- HTTP timeout (in seconds) for asynchronous upload by URL
- HTTP proxy to use for copy upload requests.
to a specific whitelist
- Add an interface to Special:Upload to enable uploading from URLs
- HTTP timeout (in seconds) for upload by URL
- On , consider images "used" if they are put into a category.
- (removed in 1.24) Allow the default search engine to count the total number of search matches, to be shown on Special:Search.
- Domains that should not be allowed to make AJAX requests, even if they match one of the domains allowed by .
- Domains that may make cross-site AJAX requests to the MediaWiki API.
- Use another resizing converter, e.g. GraphicMagick.
- The password for .
- Database username used by the .
- (removed in 1.23) Selects which DBA handler
- Average time between SHOW STATUS queries in overload conditions.
(removed in 1.24) - When to give error messages.
- Whether to use compression in DB connection.
- File to log database errors to.
- Timezone to use in the error log.
- Schema that Postgres stores the MediaWiki tables in. Defaults to 'mediawiki'
- (removed in 1.19) Set to true to use enhanced fulltext search.
- Set to true to set MySQL connection into UTF-8 encoding (experimental)
- Name of the database.
- Database port. Only used by PostgreSQL.
- The password for .
- Table name prefix.
- Host name or IP address of database server.
- Settings for the database load balancer (database servers and load ratios).
- Whether to use SSL in DB connection.
- MySQL table options to use during installation or update.
- (removed in 1.22) The password for $wgDBtestuser.
- (removed in 1.22) Database username that has permission to create and drop the test databases only.
- (removed in 1.20) Set to true if using InnoDB tables.
- Type of database.
- Database username.
rather than
- Enable API debugging by removing some restrictions like POST-only
- Include portions of log output in page HTML comment
- Trace lifecycle of the database transaction (opening, commit, rollback)
- Dump SQL queries to debug output
- Whether to additionally output a debug message on every wfProfileIn() and wfProfileOut() call.
- The file name of the debug log, or empty if disabled. wfDebug() appends to this file.
- Direct wfDebugLog() output for certain groups to files other than .
- Prefix for debug log lines.
- Print HTTP headers for every request in the debug information.
- (removed in 1.23) Detects non-matching wfProfileIn/wfProfileOut calls
- If false, 'action=raw' and load.php hits will not result in debug output.
- Displays redirect location instead of actually redirecting to the target URL
- Put tidy warnings in HTML comments, only works for internal tidy.
- Prefix debug messages with relative timestamp.
- Display the debugging toolbar
- Default external store for new revisions.
- Default variant code, if false, the default will be the language code.
- Allows specifying the default robot policy for all pages on the wiki
- The default skin for new users.
- Default user preferences.
- What directory to place deleted uploads in.
- Integer of how many revisions an article must have before the bigdelete
is required to delete it.
- Release limitation to wfDeprecated warnings.
- Whether to throw PHP notices for some possible error conditions and for deprecated functions.
- (removed in 1.21) Name of the class used for mobile device detection.
- Path to the GNU diff utility.
- Path to the GNU diff3 utility.
- Default chmod permission value for newly created directories.
- Disable talk pages for anonymous users (not logged in).
- Disables session cookies
- Disable page view counters.
- (removed in 1.23) Array of disabled article actions, e.g. view, edit, dublincore, delete, etc.
- Disabled variants for language variant conversion.
- Disable redirects to special pages and interwiki redirects, which use a 302 and have no "redirected from" link.
- Disable internal search so that extensions can implement it.
- Whether to enable language variant conversion.
- Disable output compression (compression enabled by default if zlib is available).
- Disable all query pages if
is on, not just some.
- Array of special pages that should not be updated.
- Setting this 'false' enables display of additional information on specific date/page revisions in search results.
- If you've disabled search semi-permanently, this also disables updates to the table.
- Disables full text search.
- Whether to enable language variant conversion for links.
- Whether to disable the upload system's checks for HTML/JavaScript.
- Path to the djvudump executable.
- File extension for the DjVu post processor output.
- Path of the DjVu post-processor.
- Path of the ddjvu DjVu renderer.
- Path of the djvutoxml executable.
- Path of the djvutxt DjVu text extraction utility.
- List of DNS blacklists to use, if
- (removed in 1.22) The doc type to use in the &!DOCTYPE& declaration.
- (removed in 1.22) Specifies the DTD in the DOCTYPE declaration for page output.
- List of language codes that have been renamed to new (correct) codes, or don't correspond to an actual interface language.
- Characters not explicitly converted by output encoding
- Display user edit counts in various prominent places.
- Control framing of wiki pages globally.
- Set to true to enable email authentication (confirmation) for this wiki. Except for password reminder emails, email functions only work for authenticated email addresses.
- Require users to confirm email address before they can edit, true to enable.
- Site admin email address
- Enable direct access to the data API through .
- Whether to enable image auto-rotation based on EXIF information
- Output a &link rel="canonical"& tag on every page indicating the canonical server which should be used, i.e. $wgServer or $wgCanonicalServer.
- (removed in 1.19) Include Creative Commons licensing information in page output (in RDF format)
- Whether to use DNS blacklists in
to check for open proxies.
- (removed in 1.19)
- Enable an on-wiki image whitelist at
- Allows running of
via Special:JavaScriptTest (such as QUnit).
- (removed in 1.20) Enable suggestions while typing in search boxes.
- (removed in 1.24) Enable user search in Special:Newpages.
- Enable OpenSearch suggestions requested by MediaWiki.
- Keep parsed pages in a cache (objectcache table, turck, or memcached) to speed up output of the same page viewed by another user with the same options.
- Controls whether the NewPP limit report is output in a HTML comment.
- Controls the availability of profileinfo.php.
(transcluding from another wiki)
- Whether searching for an IP address will be redirected to that IP's contributions page.
- (removed in 1.22) Enable selenium tests.
- If true, cache the sidebar navigation links.
- (deprecated in 1.16) Use
to check for open proxies.
- (removed in 1.19) Whether to enable application of access keys and tooltips
- Allow images and other files to be uploaded through the wiki.
- Set to true to enable user-to-user email.
- Allow the API to be used to perform write operations (page edits, rollback, etc.) when an authorized user accesses it.
- Should we allow a broader set of characters in id attributes, per HTML5?
- Whether to make email notifications appear to come from the user who makes the edit
- Send a generic mail instead of a personalised mail for each user.
- Maximum number of users to mail at once when using impersonal mail.
- Email notifications also for "minor edits" (user preference is shown and user needs to opt-in)
- Set to true to insert the page editor's email address into the email notifications Reply-To address
- Send mails via the .
- Email notifications can be sent for first change on a user_talk page (user preference is shown and user needs to opt-in)
- Email notifications can be sent for the first change on watched pages (user preference is shown and user needs to opt-in)
- Hooks that are used for outputting exceptions.
- An array of namespace keys in which the __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words will not function.
- Path to the exiv2 executable.
- Maximum number of calls per parse to expensive parser functions such as PAGESINCATEGORY.
- Whether to allow exporting the entire wiki into a single file.
- Enable the full-history option on Special:Export.
- Whether to allow to list all contributors while exporting a page.
- Whether to allow the "export all pages in namespace" option.
- Special:Export requests for history of pages with more revisions than this will be rejected.
- Maximum value of the "pagelink-depth" parameter in Special:Export.
- URL to extensions directory.
- Global list of extension credits
- A list of callback functions which are called once MediaWiki is fully initialised.
- Extension messages files.
- (removed in 1.22) Filesystem extensions directory.
- (removed in 1.22) Configuration for the external authentication.
- (removed in 1.22) Use some particular type of external authentication.
- Name of the external diff engine to use.
- Set a default target for external links.
- An array of external MySQL servers.
- External stores allow including content from non-database sources following URL links.
- Extension defined fields to be added to existing tables
- Extension defined indexes to be added to existing tables
- Extension Defined tables to be added on schema change
- Extension defined columns to be altered in tables
- Extension defined fields to be added to existing tables
- Same as , but for namespaces with gender distinction.
- Array of interwiki prefixes to be treated as language links.
- List of language names or overrides for default names in Names.php.
- Additional namespaces.
- (removed in 1.19) Filter for Special:Randompage. Part of a WHERE clause.
- (removed in 1.24) The subtitle to appear under every title.
- The URL of the site favicon.
- Toggle syndication feeds (RSS, Atom e.g. Recentchanges, Newpages) on and off.
- Minimum timeout for cached Recentchanges feed, in seconds.
- Available feeds objects.
- When generating Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed, diffs will not be generated for pages larger than this size.
- Set maximum number of results to return in syndication feeds (RSS, Atom) for eg Recentchanges, Newpages.
- Whether to fetch commons image description pages and display them on the local wiki.
- File backend structure configuration.
- Files with these extensions will never be allowed as uploads.
- Depth of subdirectory hierarchy under .
- Directory where the cached pages will be saved when using server-side caching.
- This is the list of preferred extensions for uploading files. Uploading files with extensions not in this list will trigger a warning.
- (removed in 1.24) F currently used only for deleted files.
- (deprecated in 1.17) Similarly (to ) if this function returns true
- Show/hide links on Special:Log will be shown for these log types.
- Set this to true to clean up archaic Unicode sequences in Arabic text.
- Fix double redirects after a page move.
- Set this to true to clean up archaic Unicode sequences in Malayalam text.
- Abstract list of footer icons for skins in place of old copyrightico and poweredbyico code
- Default maximum age (in seconds) for raw CSS/JavaScript accesses.
- Array of UI messages that should be treated as content messages.
- An array of repository structure for foreign repositories.
- Default settings for the &gallery& tag.
- Allow thumbnail rendering on page view.
- Path to the git binary.
- Map of Git repository URLs to their gitweb interface URLs
- (removed in 1.24) Go button goes straight to the edit screen if the article doesn't exist.
- Used for {{GRAMMAR:}} parser function.
- Use this to set access rights for groups and users in these groups.
- Use this to allow users to add themselves to specified groups via Special:Userrights.
- Use this to allow users to remove themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
- (removed in 1.22) Apply "screen" and "handheld" media also apply to the iPhone/iPod Touch Mobile Safari.
- (removed in 1.22) Style for media="handheld".
- Whether to hash the shared upload directory.
- If true, uses the /a/ab/foo.jpg directory structure.
- Disable certain user preferences.
- Hide interlanguage links from the sidebar.
- The maximum number of edits a user can have and can still be hidden by users with the hideuser permission.
- (removed in 1.22) The build directory for HipHop compilation.
- (removed in 1.22) The HipHop build type.
- (removed in 1.22) Number of parallel processes to use during HipHop compilation.
- Sets how often page counters should be updated.
- Global list of hooks.
- (removed in 1.24) What address to send udp HTCP purge packets if being used
- (removed in 1.24) Renamed to
in MediaWiki 1.24
- HTCP multicast purging - time to live
- (removed in 1.24) Port for HTCP multicast purging
- Routing configuration for HTCP multicast purging.
- (removed in 1.22) Whether to output an HTML 5 doctype.
- Defines the value of the version attribute in the &html& tag, if any.
- Allow form components to render tables.
- Timeout for connections done internally (in seconds)
- (removed in 1.23) User agent blacklist for HttpOnly mode.
- Proxy to use for cURL requests
- Timeout for HTTP requests done via cURL.
- If true, inline scaled images will still produce &img& tags ready for output instead of showing an error message.
- Override the default list of illegal characters in file names.
- A list of user-selectable limits for the image thumbnail size on image description pages.
- The command used to invoke ImageMagick.
- (removed in 1.23) The identify command shipped with ImageMagick
- Temporary directory used for ImageMagick.
- Display reason access to uploaded file was denied to users (img_auth only)
- Test to see if img_auth set up correctly (img_auth only)
- Groups that aren't shown on Special:Listusers or somewhere else
- List of interwiki prefixes for wikis we'll accept as sources for Special:Import (for sysops and users given appropriate permissions).
- Optional default target namespace for interwiki imports.
- Whether to include the mediawiki.legacy JavaScript library (old wikibits.js), and its dependencies.
- Internal server name as known to Squid, if different than .
- Set to a file path to enable the CDB .
- Expiry time for memcached cache of interwiki table.
- Used by maintenance scripts to dump interwiki table
- Treat language links as magic connectors, not inline links.
- Used by getInterwikiCache() to retrieve from interwiki database file
- Setting this to true will invalidate all cached pages whenever LocalSettings.php is changed
- Specifies if users should be sent to a password-reset form on login in case of an inadequate password.
- Array of invalid page redirect targets.
- Characters to prevent during new account creations.
- The full path to the installation directory.
- Configuration for javascript testing.
- Number of times work items of a job type can be run per second.
- Maps jobs to their handling classes.
- Number of jobs to perform per request.
- Jobs that must be explicitly requested, i.e. aren't run by job runners unless special flags are set.
- Path to jpegtran, for lossless JPEG rotation.
- (removed in 1.22) Media type (MIME type) to use for JavaScript scripts.
- Site language code. Should be one of the ./language/Language(.*).php files.
- The cache type for storing language conversion tables.
- Load balancer factory configuration.
- Set this to the character set, which you used before you updated to MediaWiki 1.5 (eg 'ISO-8859-1'). MediaWiki will then perform a temporary character set conversion when loading old revisions, which are not marked with "utf-8" flag (revisions created with MediaWiki 1.4 and earlier).
- Whether or not to assign configuration variables to the global window object.
- Option to speed up the conversion step for large sites when migrating the schema from 1.4 to 1.5
- Override the default list of illegal characters in page titles.
- (removed in 1.23) Array of metadata terms.
- LinkHolderArray batch size.
- (removed in 1.22) Switch for loading the
extension by
at runtime.
- The URL path to load.php.
- Other wikis on this site, can be administered from a single developer account.
- A single repository structure for the local repository.
- (deprecated in 1.23)
- Array of interwiki prefixes for this wiki.
- Localisation cache configuration.
- (removed in 1.22) Defines format of local cache : true - Serialized object, false - PHP source file (Warning - security risk)
- Same as , but shouldn't point to an external domain.
- Fake out the timezone that the server thinks it's in.
- Add a distance to the server timezone in Minutes.
- Array of configuration arrays for each lock manager.
- Lists the message key string for formatting individual events of each type and action when listed in the logs.
- Same as , but values are functions callbacks.
- Whether to send the exception backtrace to the error log.
- Lists the message key string for descriptive text to be shown at the top of each log type.
- Show a bar of language selection links in the user login and user registration forms.
- Lists the message key string for each log type.
- The URL of the site logo.
- Restricts log access to those who have a certain right.
- List of log types.
- Object cache setting
- (removed in 1.23) Array for extensions to register their maintenance scripts with the system.
- (deprecated in 1.24) How long to wait for a slave to catch up to the master.
All Math-related settings were removed from MediaWiki core in version 1.18. See .
- Force thumbnailing of animated GIFs above this size to a single frame instead of an animated thumbnail.
- Maximum article size in kilobytes.
- Set this to the number of authors that you want to be credited below an article text.
- A complexity limit on template expansion: the maximum number of nodes generated by Preprocessor::preprocessToObj()
- Don't thumbnail an image if it will use too much working memory.
- Maximum number of pages to move at once when moving subpages with a page.
- Maximum entry size in the message cache, in bytes.
- Maximum number of bytes in username.
- Stack depth limit for expansion with the preprocessor.
- A complexity limit on template expansion.
- A complexity limit on template expansion: the maximum number of nodes visited by PPFrame::expand()
- Maximum number of links to a redirect page listed on Special:Whatlinkshere/RedirectDestination.
- Maximum file size created by shell processes under linux, in KB.
- Maximum amount of virtual memory available to shell processes under Linux, in KB.
- Maximum CPU time in seconds for shell processes under Linux.
- Limit shell commands duration using real time.
- Maximum wiki code length for customized signatures.
- Maximum indent level of toc.
- Maximum size of uploaded files (in bytes)
- Plugins for media file type handling.
- Will be set to false in Setup.php, if the server isn't working.
- Whether to use persistent connections to Memcached servers.
- Memcached servers
- Server connection timeout in microseconds.
- The minimum amount of memory that MediaWiki "needs"; MediaWiki will try to raise PHP's memory limit if it's below this amount.
- Message cache setting
- Extension messages directories.
- Name used for the project namespace.
- Name of the project talk namespace.
- Sets an external MIME detector program.
- Sets the MIME type info file to be used by .
- The type to send in the Content-Type header.
- MIME types to disallow if
is enabled.
- Sets the MIME type definition file to be used by .
- Specifies the minimal length of a user password.
- Enable/disable database-intensive features
- When a message in cache expires (in seconds).
- (removed in 1.20) Template for internal MediaWiki suggestion engine.
- Provide additional names for namespaces.
- Content types defined for a given namespace
- Which namespaces can be edited by whom?
- Allow customisation of robot policies on a per-namespace basis.
- Which namespaces should be searched?
- Namespaces to be searched when user clicks the "Help" tab on Special:Search
- Which namespaces should support subpages?
- The time, in seconds, after which an emailed temporary password expires.
- Whether to maintain a log of newusers at .
- External links to these domain names (or any subdomains) will not be set to rel="nofollow".
- If true, external URL links in wiki text will be given the rel="nofollow" attribute.
- Namespaces in which
doesn't apply.
- Use this to deny inclusion of pages from specific namespaces.
- Reply-to address for automatically generated emails.
- Advanced object cache configuration.
- The expiry time to use for session storage when
is enabled, in seconds.
- (removed in 1.22) Use old names for change_tags indices.
- Integer defining default number of entries to show on OpenSearch call.
- Template for OpenSearch suggestions.
- Override server hostname detection with a hardcoded value.
- Override the site's default rss/atom feed that appears on every page.
- Limit template transclusion on InfoAction
- Page property link table invalidation lists.
- Set to false if the
doesn't have a pp_sortkey column
- (removed in 1.25) Show watching users in Page views.
- Expiration time (in seconds) of cached parser information
- Parser cache setting
- Parser configuration.
- Parser output hooks.
- Parser test suite files to be run by parserTests.php.
- (removed in 1.24) Specifies target
installation to send test result data from "parserTests.php --upload".
- Limit password attempts per IP per address.
- Configuration for built-in password types.
- Default password type to use when hashing user passwords.
- The number of days that a user's password is good for.
- The number of seconds after a user's password expires during which they can log in without a password change.
- Minimum time, in hours, which must elapse between password reminder emails.
- Whether to allow password resets identified by various bits of data.
(deprecated in 1.24) - For compatibility with old installations set to false.
- Password reminder email address.
- (removed in 1.23) Password reminder () name.
- Executable name of PHP cli client (php/php5).
- Configuration for processing pool control.
- Whether to preload the mediawiki.util module as blocking module in the top queue.
- Preprocessor caching threshold.
- Namespaces where preview-on-first-edit is forced.
- If true, print a raw call tree instead of per-function report
- Only record profiling info for pages that took longer than this number of seconds to load.
- (deprecated in 1.23) Don't put non-profiling info into log file
- Should application server host be put into profiling table?
- (removed in 1.23) Log sums from profiling into "profiling" table in db.
- Big list of banned IP addresses.
- (removed in 1.22) Expiration time for cached proxy IPs.
- (removed in 1.22) Ports we want to scan for a proxy.
- (removed in 1.22) Script used to scan for proxies.
- Proxy whitelist, list of addresses that are assumed to be non-proxy despite what the other methods might say.
- Log IP addresses in the recentchanges table.
- Number of rows to cache in 'querycache' table when miser mode is on.
- Integer defining default number of entries to show on query pages
- (deprecated in 1.23) Set to a filename to log rate limiter hits.
- Simple rate limiter options to brake edit floods.
- Array of IPs which should never trigger the rate limiter.
- Allow raw, unchecked HTML in &html&...&/html& sections.
- (removed in 1.24) Address used when sending RC updates via UDP.
- (removed in 1.24) Whether to prefixes the page name used in the RC feed.
- (removed in 1.24) Omit bot edits from UDP output
- (removed in 1.24) Port used when sending RC updates via UDP.
- (removed in 1.24) Prefix used when sending RC updates via UDP.
- Highlight character count difference lower than this.
- Configuration for RC feed protocol engines
- Filter $wgRCLinkDays by $wgRCMaxAge to avoid showing links for numbers higher than what will be stored.
- List days options to list in the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Recentchangeslinked pages.
- List changes limits options to list in the
- Configuration for sending RC updates
- Items in the
are entries older than this many seconds will go.
- Show the amount of changed characters in recent changes.
- Show watching users in recent changes, watchlist and page history views.
- Disallows editing, displaying the string given as the reason.
- If this file is found, the database is locked for the reason given in the contents of the file.
- Flags (letter symbols) shown in recent changes and watchlist to indicate certain types of edits.
- Redirect users to a specific page on login.
- (removed in 1.22) The URL of redirect.php.
- Regular expression to restrict URLs which will be displayed as "redirected from" links.
- Whether to register external links pointing to the same server.
- Controls who can remove specifics groups using .
- Append a configured value to the parser cache and the sitenotice cache keys.
- Base URL for a repository wiki.
- Whether the user must enter their password to change their email address
- List of account names that cannot exist.
- Default 'remoteBasePath' value for resource loader modules.
- The default debug mode (on/off) for ResourceLoader requests.
- (removed in 1.19) Whether to embed private modules inline with HTML output or to bypass caching and check the user parameter against.
- Default import paths for
- Maximum time in seconds to cache resources served by the resource loader.
- Maximum query string length for resource loader requests.
- Maximum line length when minifying JavaScript.
- Put each statement on its own line when minifying JavaScript.
- Foreign module sources registry.
- Enable embedding of certain resources using Edge Side Includes.
- Whether to parse JavaScript module prior to minification to validate them.
- Whether to parse statically-sourced (file-backed) JavaScript resources prior to minification to validate them.
- Array of all extra defined modules that can later be loaded during the output.
- Array of additional skin-provided stylesheets to existing ResourceLoader modules.
- Whether or not to output high-resolution images for high-DPI displays
- Restrict {{DISPLAYTITLE}} to titles that normalize to the same
- Set of permission keys that can be selected on the 'page protection' page.
- Actions that can be restricted.
- Cache extracted revision text in MemCached.
- Permission keys revoked from users in each group.
- Copyright icon
- Page describing the site license
- Text describing the site license
- URL describing the site license
- Controls whether on-request jobs are run asynchronously or synchronously.
- The URL of index.php.
- Extension to append to script names by default.
- The base URL path.
- (removed in 1.24) If set to true the 'searcheverything' preference will be effective only for logged-in users.
- Set this to a URL to forward search requests to some external location.
- Regexp to match word boundaries
- Expiry time for search suggestion responses.
- Type of search used for the wiki.
- This should always be customized to a secret, unique string in
- Whether to let user authenticate using https when they come from http.
- (removed in 1.22) Keep users logged in via HTTPS
- (removed in 1.22) Selenium configuration file.
- (removed in 1.22) Configuration for selenium test suites.
- Restriction levels that are considered "semi-protected"
- Send 404 HTTP status for not found pages.
- The base URL of the server.
- The name of the server without the protocol.
- The cache type for storing session data. Used if
- Used to set php's session.save_handler.
- Override to customize the session name.
- (deprecated in 1.20) Store session data in the object cache, rather than on the filesystem.
- Whether to store sessions in object cache.
- The name of the shared database.
- Table prefix to use on the
- List of database tables (without prefixes) to share when
is enabled.
- Same as , but for shared uploads.
- DB name with metadata about shared directory.
- DB prefix for shared image uploads
- Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found.
- Full path on the web server where shared uploads can be found.
- Sharpening parameter to ImageMagick.
- Reduction in linear dimensions below which sharpening will be enabled.
- Limit shell commands memory using linux Cgroups.
- Locale for LC_CTYPE.
- Whether to show thumbnails for old images on the image description page.
- If there are more than
authors, show $wgMaxCredits of them.
- If true, show a backtrace for database errors.
- Show debug data at bottom of content area
- If set to true, uncaught exceptions will print a complete stack trace to output.
- Show EXIF data at the end of file description pages.
- If set to true, exposes host names through API and HTML comments.
- Show the IP in the user bar for anonymous users.
- Maximum number to count when a rollback link is shown
- Whether to show SQL errors on "we're sorry, but there has been a database error" pages.
- Show new changes: bold in watchlist, with "updated since my last visit" in history.
- Expiry time for the sidebar cache, in seconds.
- Array of namespaces to generate a sitemap or false for all namespaces.
- Custom namespace priorities for sitemaps.
- The name of the site.
- A message to be displayed at the top of every page.
- Sets how often site statistics should be updated.
- The title of the support page in your wiki.
- (deprecated in 1.23) Specify the name of a skin that should not be presented in the list of available skins.|newvarname=$wgSkipSkins|newvarlink=Manual:$wgSkipSkins}} == Details ==Specify the name of a skin that should not be presented in the list of available skins.Use for blacklisting a skin which you do not want to remove from the skins directory.Deprecated since version 1.23.Use
instead.For example:
$wgSkipSkin = "cologneblue";
would become
$wgSkipSkins[] = "cologneblue";// or alternatively...$wgSkipSkins = array( "cologneblue" );
"%%section=Skins%%
- Specify the name of skins that should not be presented in the list of available skins.
- If lag is higher than this value, show a more obvious warning than .
- If lag is higher than this value, show a warning in some special pages (like watchlist).
- For using a direct (authenticated) SMTP server connection.
- (removed in 1.24) URL to the Sorbs blacklist.
- (removed in 1.24) Whether or not to sort special pages in Special:SpecialPages.
- A regular expression pattern which stops a page from being saved.
- Additional functions to be performed with updateSpecialPages.php.
- (deprecated in 1.21) List of special pages, followed by what subtitle they should go under at .
- A list of custom special pages.
- Whether to show the contents of $wgHooks in Special:Version.
- To override default SQLite data directory.
- SQL mode
- Cache timeout for the squid.
- A list of proxy servers (IPs if possible) to purge on changes.
- Same as , except they aren't purged.
- Destination for wfIncrStats() data
- Toggle whether users may upload files not covered by .
- The file system path to the skins directory.
- The URL of the skins directory.
- Do not set $wgStyleSheetPath. Use
- Appended in the query string of static CSS and JS to clear client side cache when changing this.
except for edit summaries.
- A key from
to use as converter.
- Path to the SVG converter being used.
- List of paths to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) converters.
- Don't scale a SVG larger than this unless its native size is larger.
- Don't read SVG metadata beyond this point.
- Allow sysops to ban users from accessing Special:Emailuser.
- List of image thumbnail sizes users can pick from.
- List of intermediary thumbnail sizes to use to speed up thumbnail rendering.
- If rendered thumbnail files are older than this timestamp, they will be re-rendered on demand as if the file didn't already exist.
- Minimal distance between intermediary thumbnail size and target thumbnail size.
- Path to , if you want thumbnail generation on the fly.
- Scaling factor applied to width of images when parameter 'upright' is used.
- Should be set to the path of the tidy binary.
- Should be set to the path of the tidy configuration file.
- Controls the use of the tidy extension to use an in-process tidy library instead of spawning a separate program.
- Options passed to tidy on the command line.
- The format and MIME type to convert TIFF images to.
- The path of the temporary directory.
- The list of messages representing tracking categories which are listed at .
- Expiry time for interwiki transclusion.
- For Hindi and Arabic use local numerals instead of Western style (0-9) numerals in interface.
- Switch for trivial MIME detection.
- List of trusted media-types and MIME types.
- Host for UDP profiler.
- Port for UDP profiler.
- Enable the UniversalEditButton for browsers that support it.
- Allows users without the "unwatchedpages" user right to view the number of page watchers for a specified page via the "info" action if the number of watchers is above the specified threshold.
- Whether to automatically update the img_metadata field if it is outdated but compatible with the current version.
- Number of rows to update per job.
- Number of rows to update per query.
- Password that controls access to web-based upgrades.
- The base URL for uploaded images if shared upload directory isn't to be used
- The file system path of the upload directory.
- To disable file delete/restore temporarily.
- Point wikilinks to missing files ("red file links") to a custom URL.
- Point the upload navigation link in the sidebar to a custom .
- The URL of the upload directory.
- Warn if uploaded files are larger than this.
- The maximum age of temporary (incomplete) uploaded files.
- To enable remote on-demand scaling, set this to the thumbnail base URL.
- Defines the protocols which are supported and translated in HTML by the mediawiki parser.
- Enable AJAX support.
- Whether MediaWiki should make automatic edit summaries.
- Enable/Disable experimental dmoz-like category browsing.
- Login / create account link behavior when it's possible for anonymous users to create an account.
- (removed in 1.24) Specifies the criteria used to define a 'valid article' when counting.
- Set this to true if you want detailed copyright information forms on Upload.
- Translation using MediaWiki: namespace.
- (removed in 1.22) Do DELETE/INSERT for link updates instead of incremental.
- (removed in 1.21) Enable to allow rewriting dates in page text.
- Overall "use Enotif" setting
- If you run Squid3 with ESI support, enable this.
- Whether MediaWiki should send an ETag header.
- Determine if users are allowed to edit using external editor interface.
- This will cache static pages for non-logged-in users to reduce database traffic on public sites.
- Use GZip to store cached pages.
- Set to true to use ImageMagick for image resizing.
- Whether to enable dynamic server-side image resizing (thumbnailing)
- Enable the use of
as a shared repository
- Make a local copy of the message cache, in addition to memcached.
- Applies MediaWiki UI wherever it can be supported.
- Use new pages patrolling to check for vandalism
- Whether to use 'pretty' URLs.
- Whether private X-Forwarded-For IPs should be accepted
- Use RC patrolling to check for vandalism
- The time, in seconds, after which a email address confirmation token expires.
- Set to true to put the sending user's email in a Reply-To header instead of From.
- maximum number of fallback languages per user
- Character used as the separator between username and database name on .
- Array of usernames who will be sent a notification email for every change which occurs on a wiki.
- Whether to look in a shared repository when a file is not found locally
- Use the site's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Use the site's JavaScript page
- Enable/disable Squid.
- Allow filtering by change tag in recentchanges, history, etc.
- Use tidy to make sure HTML output is sane.
- (removed in 1.19) Allow blog style trackbacks to be attached to articles
- Sidebar's search form behavior.
- Send X-Vary-Options header for better caching (requires patched Squid).
- Validate the overall output using tidy and refuse to display the page if it's not valid.
- List of valid skin names. Is used by skins to tell MediaWiki that they are available.
- Used for links when having language's variants.
- Whether to add X-Forwarded-Proto to the Vary and X-Vary-Options headers for API requests and RSS/Atom feeds.
- (removed in 1.21) Appearance, in Vector, of user page and talk page labels in personal tools.
- (removed in 1.19) Show the name of the current variant as a label in the variants drop-down menu.
- Watch and unwatch as a star icon rather than a link (for Vector skin only).
- Search form behavior for Vector skin only.
- Determines if the MIME type of uploaded files should be checked.
- MediaWiki version number. You should not change this!
- Minimum number of pages that must link to a page before it will appear on Special:Wantedpages.
- Whether to try to make our HTML output well-formed XML.
- Pages anonymous user may see.
- Whitelists publicly readable titles with a regex.
- (removed in 1.22) Namespace to use when outputting in XHTML mode.
- Permit other namespaces in addition to the w3.org default.
- An array of XML MIME types we can detect via MimeMagic
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