Books about MediaWiki

Various books about MediaWiki software have been published, emphasizing the technical aspects of MediaWiki. (There are many other books about Wikipedia specifically; they are not included in this list.)

Title	Author	Publisher	Year	Language	Topics
Working With MediaWiki	Yaron Koren	WikiWorks	2012, 2014, 2017	English	ISBN 978-0615720302 (1st edition), ISBN 978-1540761149 (2nd edition). Wikitext, installation, templates, parser functions, extensions, controlling spam, improving search administration, best practices. Readable online.
MediaWiki	Daniel J. Barrett	O'Reilly Media	2008	English	ISBN 0-596-51979-6. Wikitext, installation, templates, parser functions, DPL, extension programming, administration, best practices, tips for corporate wikis
MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide	Jeff Orloff, Mizanur Rahman	Packt Publishing	2010	English	ISBN 978-1-847196-04-0. Installing and administering MediaWiki to build a successful wiki, focus on beginners, up-to-date with MediaWiki version 1.15.
MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide	Mizanur Rahman	Packt Publishing	2007	English	ISBN 978-1-904811-59-6. MediaWiki Administrators’ tutorial guide to install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation.
MediaWiki efficace	Daniel J. Barrett	Eyrolles	2009	French	ISBN 2-212-12466-X, A translation of O'Reilly's MediaWiki.
MediaWiki Skins Design	Richard Carter	Packt Publishing	2008	English	ISBN 1-847-19520-2. Skinning MediaWiki
Professional Wikis	Mark S. Choate	Wrox	2007	English	(Google Books preview) Installation, wikitext, images, magic words, templates, skins, extensions, API, performance (memcached etc).
Wikis und Blogs	Christoph Lange (Ed.)	Computer- und Literaturverlag	2007	German	ISBN 3-936546-44-4, Includes a comparison with other wiki implementations (UseModWiki, PmWiki, FlexWiki)