Manual:Managing data in MediaWiki/en

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 February 2020 or later