Documentation/en

For many common questions about MediaWiki, the FAQ is a good place to start.

For wiki users

 * Help:Contents is the entry point for wiki user help at Mediawiki.org.


 * There is more wiki user help on meta.

For developers and system administrators

 * Manual:Contents is the front door to MediaWiki system administration and developer documentation at MediaWiki.org.


 * The file provides organization-specific information about the MediaWiki project.


 * The in the MediaWiki source code provides other code-related documentation.


 * The process used to document the MediaWiki codebase is described on the Coding conventions manual page.


 * Documentation generated from the source code of MediaWiki itself is available for many parts of MediaWiki. Most is on https://doc.wikimedia.org, including:
 * MediaWiki core PHP code
 * JavaScript code of OOjs UI


 * Some generated documentation is elsewhere, including:
 * the MediaWiki action API documents itself on any wiki where it enabled, at Special:ApiHelp which redirects to, e.g. [/w/api.php?action=help /w/api.php?action=help].
 * RESTBase APIs document themselves at https://rest.wikimedia.org. The "v1" content API also documents itself at [/api/ /api/] on most Wikimedia wikis that support it.
 * extension PHP documentation
 * CSS & Less documentation (a living style guide)