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This technical manual is not intended for end users of MediaWiki. If you are looking for documentation to help you use MediaWiki, read the MediaWiki Handbook .
This is a technical manual for the MediaWiki software. It contains information for developers and system administrators on installing, managing and developing for the MediaWiki software.
Main sections
For system administrators
- Installation
- Guide to setting up a new MediaWiki installation.
- Download | Installing | Initial configuration
- Alphabetical list of settings | Settings listed by function
- System administration
- Guide to do administrative tasks on your wiki.
- Backing up | Maintenance scripts
- Upgrading
- Guide to upgrade your MediaWiki installation.
For developers
- Architecture
- An overview of the key parts of MediaWiki's source code.
- Code | Global object variables | Doxygen-generated documentation
- Database layout
- Details about the database architecture used by MediaWiki.
- MariaDB | MySQL | PostgreSQL | SQLite
- Developing extensions
- An overview of the ways to create a new MediaWiki extension.
- Extension points | Best practices for extensions | Extension.json/Schema
- Web access
- Details about query string parameters that can be passed to MediaWiki access scripts.
- index.php | api.php
Others
- MediaWiki FAQ
- Frequently asked questions about MediaWiki.
Browsing the manual
There are multiple ways to browse through the documentation. Readers having trouble finding a particular topic in the section above may find the following ways of browsing to be helpful.
- Special:Allpages/Manual: — An automatically generated list of all pages in the Manual: namespace.
- Category:Manual — the top-level Manual category.
Improving the manual
- There are still a lot of holes in this manual! See the Wikimedia technical documentation: friends of the docs for details (page in English).
- Project:Manual — A place to discuss and co-ordinate the development of the Manual: namespace.