Help:Handy Notes

Clearing Cache

• Sometimes, after you make an edit, your changes do not appear on the page. This is likely because the page, or portions of the page, have been cached by the browser or by MediaWiki.
  • To clear browser cache, see this, which has specific instructions for each browser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache
  • To clear MediaWiki cache, add ?action=purge to the end of the URL. You will be asked if it's ok

Help Sources

• MediaWiki Support Desk: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_talk:Support_desk
• MediaWiki Developer Support: (github login) https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org
• StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=mediawiki
• Unofficial MediaWiki Users Forum: https://mwusers.org
• Convert html to wiki https://devotter.com/converter
• Playground for now: https://vegannotes.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Page ID and URLS

• Each page has a short url: https://wiki.justiceforanimals.org/?curid=88
• Magic word {{PAGEID}}
• There’s an api call to get the id, but its also in the sidebar menu under “Page Information.”
• More on Stackoverflow

Regix

• id attribute (sort of)
  • (<([^>]*))(id=("[^"]*"|[^" >]*))

• WordPress citations (( citation ))
  • [(][(](.*)[)][)]