MediaWiki

Documentation

There is a lot of documentation, but it is terrible difficult to find. The code of MediaWiki is stored into a version control system (SubVersion).

• Subversion Tigris, Official Subversion Website]
  • Download from Subversion
  • Version Control Subversion
• SVN-wikimedia
  • SVN-WikiMedia, MediaWiki auto-generated documentation system by DoxyGen.
  • SVN-WikiMedia, API Documentation
  • SVN-WikiMedia, View VC browser interface to MediaWiki code
• WikiBooks, Mediawiki Developers Handbook.
• 8tiny, PHP Cross Reference of MediaWiki 1.15.2. Useful for backtracking older MediaWiki functions.

Developing

For the development of extension to MediaWiki look at the page Manual Developing Extensions. To register your application use the Manual Extension Credits.

ERD

Cascading Style Sheet

Style Sheets and Javascript can be added using the mediawiki-pages, i.e.:

• MediaWiki:Common.css
• MediaWiki:Common.js

For examples on Wikipedia:

• Wikipedia EN, MediaWiki Common.css.
• Wikipedia EN, MediaWiki Common.js.