Manual:Managing data in MediaWiki

MediaWiki was designed to manage mostly textual information and it does this very well. However, the only way of structuring content is by Namespaces (this article is in the Namespace "Manual" or Categories (this article was put into the "Category:MediaWiki Introduction".

If you want to manage structured data in MediaWiki, e. g. a date or a number, several different approches exist, handled by dedicated extensions. The differences and similarities of the most common ones are shown in the following table: