Help:Hacker

This used to be a very incomplete fifth part of the handbook, but there were actually only two help pages now moved to the Help:System admin handbook, some other pages still listed here are on their way to mw:.

• MediaWiki development
• Documentation: Developer's Guide
• How to become a MediaWiki hacker
• Write your own MediaWiki extension
• MediaWiki Hacks and Extensions
• Skins Hacks
• Source code documentation

Help contents

Meta  · Wikinews  · Wikipedia  · Wikiquote  · Wiktionary  · Commons:  · Wikidata  · MediaWiki  · Wikibooks  · Wikisource  · MediaWiki: Manual  · Google

Versions of this help page (for other languages see further)

What links here on Meta or from Wikipedia  · Go  · Search  · Namespace  · Page naming  · Section  · Backlinks  · Redirect  · Category  · Image page  · Special pages  · Printing

Tracking changes

Recent changes (enhanced) | Related changes  · Watching pages  · Diff  · Page history  · Edit summary  · User contributions  · Minor edit  · Patrolled edit

Logging in and preferences

Logging in  · Preferences

Editing

Starting a new page  · Advanced editing  · Editing FAQ  · Export  · Import  · Shortcuts  · Edit conflict  · Page size

Referencing

Links  · URL  ·  · Footnotes

Style and formatting

Wikitext examples  · CSS  · Reference card  · HTML in wikitext  · Formula  · Lists  · Table  · Sorting  · Colors  · Images and file uploads

Fixing mistakes

Show preview  · Reverting edits

Advanced functioning

Expansion  · Template  · Advanced templates  · Parser function  · Magic words  · System message  · Substitution  · Arrays  · Expr parser function syntax  · Transclusion

Others

Special characters  · Renaming (moving) a page  · Preparing a page for translation  · Talk pages  · Signatures  · Sandbox  · Legal issues for editors