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Can A Total Beginner Use WikiMedia
u/Viscera_TheImpaler avatar u/Viscera_TheImpaler
• Can A Total Beginner Use WikiMedia
Can A Total Beginner Use WikiMedia
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Can A Total Beginner Use WikiMedia

Hey, hopefully I’m in the right sub to ask.

I’m a big fan of certain fantasy series’ and have taken a bunch of nerdy notes on them. I’d love to create a dedicated wiki as a resource for myself and any other fans.

Is WikiMedia somewhat user friendly for a total novice to build a dedicated wiki with linked pages of in world history, character history, etc. And if I’m on the right track are there any useful tutorials? I really couldn’t find much on YouTube.

I understand “Fandom” wikis are a thing but these are pretty ugly, i’d love to have something alot cleaner. Similar to “A Wiki of Ice and Fire”.

Any help’s much appreciated!

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Trying to resurrect an old wiki from backup — got it connecting to DB, but with error
u/1337ingDisorder
• Trying to resurrect an old wiki from backup — got it connecting to DB, but with error

I'm trying to get an old wikimedia wiki online from backups.

I've imported the database and set up a user for it, and have pointed the old LocalSettings.php at the new DB location.

When I try to open the wiki in a browser I get "A database query error has occurred."

I've enabled debugging as per a suggestion in another post, but I'm not sure how to interpret the debug output.

Here's what the debug says: 

[683ef9c931b1e7a5f88d0cef] /wiki/ Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from line 1457 of /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading?
Query: SELECT lc_value FROM `wikil10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'deps' LIMIT 1
Function: LCStoreDB::get
Error: 1017 Can't find file: './wiki/wikil10n_cache.frm' (errno: 13 - Permission denied) (127.0.0.1)

Backtrace:

#0 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1427): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->makeQueryException(string, integer, string, string)
#1 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1200): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportQueryError(string, integer, string, string, boolean)
#2 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1653): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)
#3 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1479): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->select(string, string, array, string, array, array)
#4 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/localisation/LCStoreDB.php(52): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->selectField(string, string, array, string)
#5 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(412): LCStoreDB->get(string, string)
#6 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(458): LocalisationCache->isExpired(string)
#7 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(377): LocalisationCache->initLanguage(string)
#8 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(292): LocalisationCache->loadSubitem(string, string, string)
#9 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/languages/Language.php(2587): LocalisationCache->getSubitem(string, string, string)
#10 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(913): Language->getMessage(string)
#11 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(868): MessageCache->getMessageForLang(LanguageEn, string, boolean, array)
#12 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(808): MessageCache->getMessageFromFallbackChain(LanguageEn, string, boolean)
#13 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/Message.php(1290): MessageCache->get(string, boolean, LanguageEn)
#14 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/Message.php(842): Message->fetchMessage()
#15 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/Message.php(934): Message->toString(string)
#16 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/title/MalformedTitleException.php(49): Message->text()
#17 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/title/MediaWikiTitleCodec.php(310): MalformedTitleException->__construct(string, string)
#18 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/Title.php(3631): MediaWikiTitleCodec->splitTitleString(string, integer)
#19 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/Title.php(366): Title->secureAndSplit()
#20 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(85): Title::newFromURL(NULL)
#21 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(141): MediaWiki->parseTitle()
#22 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(777): MediaWiki->getTitle()
#23 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(524): MediaWiki->main()
#24 /shared/web/mydomain.com/public_html/wiki/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()
#25 {main}

Is this fixable?