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Revision as of 19:06, 13 December 2023
MediaWiki Introduction 2023 is a 3-part video series by Timo Tijhof, recorded in December 2023 for the MediaWiki Code Jam.
Part 1: MediaWiki core concepts
Watch on Wikimedia Commons. • Watch on YouTube
Timestamps:
00:00 Outline 00:50 Database schema 01:37 Users 02:55 Preferences 04:12 Localisation 05:02 Permissions 08:50 Bot passwords 10:10 Logging 11:58 Comments 12:35 Recent changes 15:39 Pages 16:00 Namespaces 18:14 Revisions 18:20 Example: Save an edit 19:59 Example: View a page 20:52 Link tables 21:02 Categories 24:20 Templates 25:05 Image links 25:59 GLAM 26:43 External links 27:40 Statistics 28:02 Search 29:14 JobQueue 31:58 Multimedia
High-level product and architecture perspective. Component walk-through.
- Database layout
- Who writes Wikipedia
- Why create an account
- CSSJanus docs
- CSSJanus demo
- Permissions
- Change user rights
- Bot passwords
- Logging
- Recent changes
- RCFeed
- Listen to Wikipedia
- CodePen
- ClueBot
- Namespaces
- Special pages
- Page table
- Revision table
- Text table
- External storage
- Example category
- Everything is a wiki page
- GLAM
- Example photo
- Statistics
- JobQueue
- Performance practices
- Multimedia
Part 2: Wikipedia's extensions
- What is an extension?
- Install an extension in two easy steps.
- Walkthrough extensions on Wikipedia's Special:Version page
- Editor extensions
- Parser extensions
- Media handlers
- Antispam
- Other
Part 3: Write an example patch
- Quickstart
- Run PHPUnit.
- Run QUnit.
- Install the "examples" extension.
- Patch:
- Output some HTML on a Special page.
- Edit a localisation message.
- Change the logic of a hook.
- Add output to an API.