This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation. Client libraries contain code that developers can use to help with common and basic tasks, so that they don't have to write the code from scratch when their projects interact...
Note: When you edit this page, you agree to release your contribution under the CC0. See Public Domain Help Pages for more info. Categories, a software feature of MediaWiki, provide automatic indexes that are useful as tables of contents. You can categorise pages and files by adding one or more...
Note: When you edit this page, you agree to release your contribution under the CC0. See Public Domain Help Pages for more info. Every page on a MediaWiki site not only has information to show you but also allows you to move to other pages. This is called "navigation". To help you navigate, every...
If you believe you have found a security problem in MediaWiki or in one of Wikimedia's web sites, see Security for contact information so we can prepare a bug fix release. Brian Wolff presents on how to secure a MediaWiki installation at...
This extension has not been maintained for some time, and no longer supports recent releases of MediaWiki. To see the page before archival, click here.
The page table can be considered the "core of the wiki". Each page in a MediaWiki installation has an entry here which identifies it by title and contains some essential metadata. It was first introduced in r6710, in MediaWiki 1.5. The text of the page itself is stored in the text table. To...
MediaWiki developers and users[1] rely on several upstream and/or 3rd party projects for their architecture or processes. At the same time, they develop software projects used by others, which are downstream to them. These links define our location in the free software map, our neighbor...
Note: When you edit this page, you agree to release your contribution under the CC0. See Public Domain Help Pages for more info. Magic words are strings of text that MediaWiki associates with a return value or function, such as time, site...
Interlanguage links are the small navigation links that show up in the sidebar in most MediaWiki skins which connect an article with related articles in other languages within the same wiki family. This can provide language-specific communities connected by a larger context, with all wikis on the...
The article count is the number of content pages on a wiki. It is available from the wiki's Special:Statistics page, from the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} magic word, and through a "siteinfo" query via the MediaWiki API. By default, a page is...
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