Manual:Managing data in MediaWiki/ru

MediaWiki was designed to manage mostly textual information and it does this very well. However, the only way of structuring content is by, or.

If you want to manage structured data in MediaWiki, e.g. a date or a number, several different approaches exist, handled by dedicated extensions.

The differences and similarities of the most common ones are shown in the following table:

Alternative comparisons

 * Semantic MediaWiki vs Wikibase vs Cargo by Professional.Wiki, updated April 2021 or later
 * Semantic MediaWiki vs Wikibase vs Cargo by Professional.Wiki, updated April 2021 or later

См. также

 * - Ability to manage different independent content objects on the same wiki page by a technology change to the back-end of MediaWiki.
 * – Allows to extract data from pages.
 * – Provides database features, somewhat similar to semantic properties.
 * – store JSON (including tabular and map data) in wiki pages, and allow accessing them via Lua; no query support
 * - access data from external URL, local file, and SQL or MongoDB database (which may contain data from non-MediaWiki websites)
 * – ongoing (as of 2021) project for improving structured data support in MediaWiki