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This is a high-level overview of MediaWiki development, including links to the key documents, resources and tools available to MediaWiki developers. It is written for skilled LAMP developers who have experience using MediaWiki.


 * If you want to use Wikimedia web APIs, visit (work in progress).
 * If you want to contribute to developing Wikimedia software, see.
 * For an introductory guide to developing MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions, read.
 * If you want to collaborate with other third-party MediaWiki users, the (MWStake) is a MediaWiki user group consisting of MediaWiki developers, system administrators, users, consultants, and hosting providers.

Overview
MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia, its sister projects and thousands of wikis all over the world.

MediaWiki is written in the PHP programming language. It uses jQuery as the client JavaScript library.

MediaWiki is primarily written for the LAMP platform and runs on most operating systems. MediaWiki primarily uses the MySQL and MariaDB database servers.

Development happens in an open source style, is largely coordinated online, and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, though volunteer community developers play a huge part as well.

The main developer list is wikitech-l. The main developer IRC channels are and.
 * Development discussion happens on various mailing lists and IRC channels.
 * Source code is managed using the Git version control system.
 * Code review for most projects is performed on . Follow this tutorial to set up Git and Gerrit in order to submit patches.
 * Bug reports and tasks for most projects are managed on.
 * Developers extending or interfacing with MediaWiki (instead of working on the core code) have several convenient extension points, including the API, the Hooks system and Skins – see the #Extending MediaWiki section of this page for an overview.

MediaWiki uitbreiden
MediaWiki is zo gemaakt dat het wijzigingen toelaat zonder de "kerncode" te wijzigen. Dit maakt het makkelijk om bij te werken naar een nieuwe versie van van MediaWiki zonder handmatig te moeten samenvoegen met oude codewijzigingen. Er zijn zes belangrijke uitbreidingspunten die ontwikkelaars toelaten om functies toe te voegen aan MediaWiki of om bestaande functies te wijzigen. De uitbreidingspunten zijn:


 * API – access the data and metadata of MediaWiki instances through its web API.
 *  – Iets doen elke keer dat "X" gebeurt...
 *  – Een nieuw bevel maken zoals:
 *  – De vormgeving en het uiterlijk van MediaWiki wijzigen.
 *  – Een nieuwe speciale pagina toevoegen.
 *  – Een nieuwe tag maken zoals:
 *  – add a parser hook to modify the content of wikitext.