Manual:Forms

Built-in forms
Out-of-the-box MediaWiki uses form-based data entry for a variety of page maintenance and administrative functions. MediaWiki articles themselves are created using free-form wikitext. Like most other features of MediaWiki, there are numerous customization possibilities available.

Customizing built-in forms
Please see the following articles:
 * , - describe how to customize/localize the text that appears on the built-in forms used by MediaWiki.

Input forms
Input forms are standard forms placed either in wiki articles or in Special pages where visitors can enter structured data (for instance contact information) and administrators can access submissions easily and securely. Because out-of-the-box MediaWiki does not provide this functionality, here is a list of extensions which implement it:


 * Extension:ContactPage - implements a simple contact form within a fixed special page
 * Extension:EmailPage - Allows sending fully rendered articles with embedded CSS to users, groups, or contact lists
 * Extension:CIForms - Forms with auto-validation, multiple choice questions and cloze tests
 * Extension:FormMailer - sends harcoded forms in the WIKI's articles to be sent to a specific email address. It might be used with the $wgRawHtml enabled
 * Extension:QuickSurveys - surveys appearing on articles based on a PHP configuration
 * LimeSurvey - it might be a paid service, running on an external environment