[06:40:10] <Godman>	 Hello there!
[06:41:39] <Godman>	 How can I keep a mediawiki homepage URL clean as in wikipedia.org instead of xyz.tld/wiki/main_page ?
[06:44:23] <Godman>	 Hello Abijeet. Did you get me?
[06:51:13] <seekinganswers>	 Hello there!
[06:51:40] <seekinganswers>	 How can I keep a mediawiki homepage URL clean as in wikipedia.org instead of xyz.tld/wiki/main_page ?
[06:52:04] <seekinganswers>	 .
[06:52:32] <seekinganswers>	 .
[06:53:26] <seekinganswers>	 ?
[06:54:25] <seekinganswers>	 What I want is how to 1) prevent MediaWiki from redirecting the main domain to the "Main Page", and 2) display a stand-alone page under the main domain.In other words, how to do exactly what Wikipedia does when you go to www.wikipedia.org or donate.wikimedia.org ?
[06:54:53] <seekinganswers>	 ?
[06:55:03] <seekinganswers>	 ?
[06:55:14] <seekinganswers>	 ?
[06:55:23] <seekinganswers>	 ?
[06:55:36] <seekinganswers>	 ?
[06:56:08] <seekinganswers>	 Anyone here?
[06:56:09] <wm-bot>	 Hi seekinganswers, I am here, if you need anything, please ask, otherwise no one is going to help you... Thank you
[06:56:49] <seekinganswers>	 What I want is how to 1) prevent MediaWiki from redirecting the main domain to the "Main Page", and 2) display a stand-alone page under the main domain.In other words, how to do exactly what Wikipedia does when you go to www.wikipedia.org ?
[06:57:11] <seekinganswers>	 .
[06:57:27] <seekinganswers>	 Anyone here?
[06:57:28] <wm-bot>	 Hi seekinganswers, I am here, if you need anything, please ask, otherwise no one is going to help you... Thank you
[06:57:50] <seekinganswers>	 i just asked 
[06:58:12] <seekinganswers>	 who else is here?
[06:58:23] <seekinganswers>	 send me to human 
[06:58:34] <seekinganswers>	 redirect me to human 
[06:58:46] <seekinganswers>	 i need a human help
[06:58:58] <seekinganswers>	 please help me
[06:59:25] <seekinganswers>	 Anyone here?
[06:59:25] <wm-bot>	 Hi seekinganswers, I am here, if you need anything, please ask, otherwise no one is going to help you... Thank you
[07:01:31] <seekinganswers>	 ?
[07:27:46] <wantanswers>	 Hello there!
[07:27:55] <wantanswers>	 Anyone here?
[07:27:55] <wm-bot>	 Hi wantanswers, I am here, if you need anything, please ask, otherwise no one is going to help you... Thank you
[07:28:18] <wantanswers>	 How to change homepage url
[07:28:41] <wantanswers>	 How do I change the homepage URL?
[07:30:49] <wantanswers>	 ?
[07:30:56] <rxy>	 !$wgServer
[07:30:57] <wm-bot>	 The base URL of the server, including protocol (or protocol relative leading //) and without the trailing slash (eg, "http://www.example.org" or "//mediawiki.org"). See also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgServer
[07:31:20] <rxy>	 !shorturls
[07:31:20] <wm-bot>	 To create simple URLs (such as the /wiki/PAGENAME style URLs on Wikimedia sites), follow the instructions at <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL> or try the new beta tool at <http://shorturls.redwerks.org/>. There are instructions for most different webserver setups. If you have problems getting the rewrite rules to work, see !rewriteproblem
[07:33:57] <wantanswers>	 Okay
[07:34:00] <wantanswers>	 but,
[07:34:30] <wantanswers>	 What I really want is how to 1) prevent MediaWiki from redirecting the main domain to the "Main Page", and 2) display a stand-alone page under the main domain.In other words, how to do exactly what Wikipedia does when you go to www.wikipedia.org ?
[07:37:33] <MagentaHeron10>	 How can I have a homepage URL like Wikipedia.org instead of xyz.tld/wiki/homepage?
[07:38:34] <wantanswers>	 ?
[07:38:47] <rxy>	 https://www.wikipedia.org/ is not using MediaWiki
[07:39:15] <MagentaHeron10>	 Are you serious 😳?
[07:39:29] <MagentaHeron10>	 what is it using?
[07:40:28] <MagentaHeron10>	 However, CMS check shows that Wikipedia.org is using mediawiki maybe that's wrong, huh?
[07:40:56] <rxy>	 *.wikipedia.org are using MediaWiki,
[07:41:02] <rxy>	 but www is not so.
[07:41:42] <MagentaHeron10>	 Thanks for your kind response 
[07:42:35] <MagentaHeron10>	 so if I am so keen at implementing like Wikipedia does on the homepage, what do you advised?
[07:43:39] <MagentaHeron10>	 .
[07:43:41] <rxy>	 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/WPRD/  this is source code of www.wikipedia.org 
[07:44:00] <rxy>	 www.wikipedia.org   is   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/WPRD/browse/master/wikipedia.org/
[07:44:07] <MagentaHeron10>	 Thank you.
[07:44:16] <rxy>	 simply "index.html"
[07:44:17] <MagentaHeron10>	 Another question..
[07:45:39] <MagentaHeron10>	 i also noticed that, when I search with the homepage search form, it takes me to en.wikipedia.org. How is that implemented?
[07:47:36] <MagentaHeron10>	 Hello.
[09:08:29] <chungus99993>	 i'm unable to import backup XML to a new mediawiki instance. i'm getting the error "Cannot create an actor for a usable name that is not an existing user" and there's no mention of it anywhere in mediawiki documentation
[09:09:00] <chungus99993>	 using mediawiki 1.33.1 and php 7.3
[09:34:36] <andre__>	 chungus99993: Try the patches in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211450
[09:35:02] <chungus99993>	 the "Add $this-> addPrefix " patch? i already attempted that and it did not fix my issue
[09:35:33] <andre__>	 chungus99993, no, see the last two comments in that ticket
[09:36:12] <chungus99993>	 i see, thanks
[10:06:00] <chungus99993>	 andre__: the user it returned that was failing was labeled "Anonymous". i'm not sure if this is how very old mediawiki used to store anonymous contributions, as the revisions with this name are from 2011
[10:06:18] <chungus99993>	 it was stored as "<contributor><ip>Anonymous</ip></contributor>" in the import .xml, so i believe i just have to change this to a different IP like 127.0.0.1?
[18:52:55] <Ryan52>	 Hi there, is this the place for technical questions?