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Published Jul. 2, 2025

CKEditor With Mediawiki Format

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Justin Choi

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This article documents a known issue where the CKEditor is unavailable if the MediaWiki format is chosen when creating a Wiki article in Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Navigate to the Control Panel → Wiki
  2. Click the Main link to use the default Wiki node.
  3. Click the Add Page button.
  4. Select MediaWiki from the Format Menu.
  5. Click OK in the validation window.

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Figure 1. The CKEditor is unavailable.

Resolution

The reason for the removal of the CKEditor is because of Wiki Syntax errors.

Status: Workaround Available

If administrators still wish to use CKEditor with the MediaWiki Format, they can enable a setting in the portal-ext.properties.

  1. Shut down the application server before making changes to the portal-ext.properties file.
  2. Enter the following: editor.wysiwyg.portal-web.docroot.html.portlet.wiki.edit.mediawiki.jsp=ckeditor
  3. Save the file.
  4. Start the application server.

mediawikiCKEditor.PNG

Once the application server has restarted, the CKEditor is now available for use in the MediaWiki format.

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