Manual:Content models table

The content_models table is a normalization table for content model names. They are referenced from the content table.

In PHP code, normalization is managed via NameTableStore.

It was introduced in MediaWiki 1.31 as part of the Multi-Content Revisions project; see Multi-Content Revisions/Content Meta-Data for details. During migration from older versions, the table is populated by populateContentTables.php (run automatically by the upgrade script).

model_id
Primary key.

model_name
To be documented.

Schema summary
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 * Field     | Type          | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
 * model_id  | int(11)       | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
 * model_name | varbinary(64) | NO  | UNI | NULL    |                |

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 * Field     | Type          | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
 * model_id  | smallint(6)   | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
 * model_name | varbinary(64) | NO  | UNI | NULL    |                |