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 ,  or .

If you want to manage structured data in MediaWiki, e.g. a date or a number, several different approaches exist, handled by dedicated 1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions|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