Table of Contents

Working with MediaWiki
2nd ed., HTML version

Preface to the 4th printing of the 2nd edition
Introduction
Chapter 1 About MediaWiki
· History of MediaWiki
· Community and support
· Wiki farms
Chapter 2 Setting up MediaWiki
· The MediaWiki environment
· Download and installation
· Setting the logo
· Changing the URL structure
· Updating MediaWiki
· Extensions
· Finding extensions
· Installing extensions
Chapter 3 Editing in MediaWiki
· Tabs
· Creating and editing pages
· VisualEditor
· CodeEditor
· Page history
· Page diffs
· Undoing
· Blocking and rollbacks
· Deleting revisions
· Moving pages
· Deleting pages
· Edit conflicts
Chapter 4 MediaWiki syntax
· Wikitext
· Interwiki links
· Including HTML
· Templates
· Parser and tag functions
· Variables
· Behavior switches
Chapter 5 Content organization
· Categories
· Namespaces
· Redirects
· Subpages and super-pages
· Special pages
Chapter 6 Communication
· Talk pages
· Threaded discussions
· Handling reader comments
· Inline annotations
· Chat
· Emailing users
Chapter 7 Images and files
· Uploading
· Displaying images
· Image galleries
· Slideshows
· Audio and video
· Displaying outside images
· Displaying PDF files
Chapter 8 User registration and management
· Registration
· User groups and permissions
· Creating user accounts
· Anonymous editing
· Login integration systems
· Blocking and deleting users
Chapter 9 Browsing and searching
· Viewing the set of all pages
· Searching
· Installing another search engine
· Using an outside search engine
Chapter 10 Monitoring and notifications
· Recent changes
· Watchlist
· Echo extension
· Site notice
· Logs
· Statistics
Chapter 11 Extended MediaWiki syntax
· ParserFunctions
· Displaying code
· Displaying math
· Cite
· Header Tabs
· RegularTooltips
Chapter 12 Modules, gadgets and widgets
· Scribunto
· Gadgets
· Widgets
Chapter 13 Display and customization
· User preferences
· Skins and mobile display
· Ads
· Some JavaScript and CSS internals
· Message pages, and modifying the interface text
· Language support
Chapter 14 Protecting content
· Handling spam
· Access control and protecting pages
· FlaggedRevs, Approved Revs and Moderation
Chapter 15 MediaWiki administration
· Configuration settings
· Debugging
· Improving MediaWiki performance
· The MediaWiki cache
· The job queue
· Admin Links
· Replace Text
· Getting user IP information
· Bots and the MediaWiki API
· Search engine optimization
· Running a wiki farm
· Multi-language wikis
Chapter 16 Cargo and data storage
· How Cargo works: an example
· Storing data
· Querying data
· Display formats
· Browsing data
· Semantic MediaWiki
· Wikidata, Wikibase and Abstract Wikipedia
Chapter 17 Page Forms
· Getting started
· Form definitions
· Input types
· Enabling multiple field values
· The “edit with form” tab
· Linking to forms
· Creating query forms
· Modifying pages automatically
Chapter 18 Other extensions
· External Data
· CategoryTree
· DynamicPageList
· UrlGetParameters
· Diagram extensions
· Ratings extensions
· Page Schemas
· SocialProfile
Chapter 19 Importing and exporting
· Moving content between two MediaWiki systems
· Importing contents from another system into MediaWiki
· Exporting contents from MediaWiki to another system
· PDF export
· Offline viewing
Chapter 20 Running a successful wiki
· Public wikis
· Private wikis
· Public, organizational wikis
Chapter 21 AI and the future of wikis
· AI and software
· AI and Wikipedia
· Wikis and chatbots
· Do we still need MediaWiki?

Working with MediaWiki

Yaron Koren
Working with MediaWiki
by Yaron Koren
Published by WikiWorks Press.
Copyright 2012-2026 by Yaron Koren, except where otherwise noted.
Chapter 16, “Cargo and Semantic MediaWiki”, includes significant content from the Cargo homepage (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo), available under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
Chapter 17, “Page Forms”, includes significant content from the Page Forms homepage (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms), available under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012952489
ISBN: 978-1540761149
Second edition, fourth printing: 2026
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Cover design by Grace Cheong (https://gracecheong.com).