MediaWiki provides a standard text markup that can be easily customized. Extensions can customize wiki markup by: Adding standard token types – The standard approach to customized MediaWiki markup is to add new markup that looks like the built-in MediaWiki XML tags (<tag>), template ({{...}}), or...
User rights are permissions (like the ability to edit pages or to block users) that can be assigned to different user groups. MediaWiki ships with a default set of user rights and user groups, but these can be customized. This page explains the default rights and groups and how to customize them....
Skins allow users to customize the look and feel of MediaWiki. MediaWiki's default skin is Vector. A number of other skins also exist in default MediaWiki installations. Users can see which skins are available on their preferences page. To...
For a list of Wikimedia events, see the Events page on Meta. Montage of pictures from Wikimedia hackathons and tech events - come join us! The following are the meetings, conferences and hacking sessions related to MediaWiki and Wikimedia...
MediaWiki is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Copyright 2001 - 2025. A list of authors can be found here....
This page contains technical documentation relating to change tags; its content is aimed at MediaWiki extension developers. For help and documentation aimed at users and administrators, please see Tags. Change tags or revision tags are annotations associated with a revision or log entry. They are...
This page is obsolete. It is being retained for archival purposes. It may document extensions or features that are obsolete and/or no longer supported. Do not rely on the information here being up-to-date. This page was mainly active from 2006-2010, and is now no longer current. Please refer to...
Note: When you edit this page, you agree to release your contribution under the CC0. See Public Domain Help Pages for more info. If you have standard texts you want to include on several pages, the MediaWiki template feature comes into play. Unlike extensions and media files, there is no central...
This extension is included with MediaWiki version 1.44 and later, so no additional download is necessary. However, the remaining installation and configuration steps must still be followed. This extension comes with MediaWiki 1.18 and later, so you do not need to download it. The remaining...
Noindex can be used to prevent indexing of a page by search engines. Using Wikitext [edit] To change the index preferences for specific pages, use one of these magic words: __INDEX__ __NOINDEX__ These magic words work for a given...
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