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[Solved] Get all page titles on Wikipedia that contain a specific word

November 2, 2022 by Kirat

First, I’m not sure I understand how would something like that be useful. (Wikipedia has articles for all the common words and I don’t think links to them would be of any use.) But if you really wanted to do something like this, I think a much better way would be to use the API … Read more

[Solved] The meaning of ua and mw in JavaScript

September 20, 2022 by Kirat

In a MediaWiki context, mw is a global object containing a number of Javascript methods and properties, that other javascript modules can make use of. If, for instance, you are adding Javascript code to MediaWiki:Common.js, you will always be able to access the mw variable. (Read more about MediaWiki JS modules here.) The mw.config in … Read more