Manual:Logging to Special:Log

This page describes how to log actions to  .

(Logging to the application log is covered at .)

Example
This illustrates how you would code   entries for extensions.

The log messages appear on the   page and can be filtered by, for example, the log name, user, title or date range.

In your extension setup file
The following should work in  :

For core logs, the configuration is in  .

In i18n/en.json file
Message documentation (qqq.json):

Adding links
To add a link to log entries, you should pass the page name etc. in the log parameters, and format that in your LogFormatter using  .

With other methods, non-html output (like UDP feed to IRC) will be broken.

See <tvar|1></> for an example LogFormatter with links.