Manual:Contents/mni

This is a technical manual for the MediaWiki software. It contains information for developers and system administrators on installing, managing and developing for the MediaWiki software.

This manual is not for end users of MediaWiki. If you are looking for documentation to help you use MediaWiki, read the MediaWiki Handbook.

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For system administrators

 * Guide to setting up a new MediaWiki installation.
 * Guide to setting up a new MediaWiki installation.


 * Guide to do administrative tasks on your wiki.
 * Guide to do administrative tasks on your wiki.


 * Guide to upgrade your MediaWiki installation.
 * Guide to upgrade your MediaWiki installation.

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For developers

 * Architecture
 * An overview of the key parts of MediaWiki's source code.
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 * Details about the database architecture used by MediaWiki.
 * Details about the database architecture used by MediaWiki.


 * An overview of the ways to create a new MediaWiki extension.
 * An overview of the ways to create a new MediaWiki extension.


 * Web access
 * Details about query string parameters that can be passed to MediaWiki access scripts.

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Others

 * Frequently asked questions about MediaWiki.
 * Frequently asked questions about MediaWiki.

Browsing the manual
There are multiple ways to browse through the documentation. Readers having trouble finding a particular topic in the section above may find the following ways of browsing to be helpful.
 * Special:Allpages/Manual: - An automatically generated list of all pages in the Manual: namespace.
 * Category:Manual - the top-level Manual category

Improving the manual

 * There are still a lot of holes in this manual! See the 'to do' page for details.
 * There is still content on https://meta.wikimedia.org which may need to be migrated. If you can't find information on a particular issue in this documentation, please visit meta:Help:Contents.
 * Project:Manual is a place to discuss and co-ordinate the development of the Manual: namespace.
 * See also Project:Current issues.

MediaWiki Virtual Library

 * MediaWiki Virtual Library (MVL) has manuals, guides, and collections of selected articles in PDF form you create on-the-fly