Extension:Persistent Page Identifiers

PW

The Professional Wiki team maintains this extension professionally.

Professional Wiki provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.

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Persistent Page Identifiers Release status: stable
Implementation	Parser function , API , Special page
Description	Provides stable unique identifiers to pages.
Author(s)	Jeroen De Dauwtalk
Maintainer(s)	Professional Wiki
Latest version	1.1.0 (2025-05-21)
MediaWiki	1.39+
PHP	8.1+
Database changes	Yes
Composer	professional-wiki/persistent-page-identifiers
Tables persistent_page_ids
Parameters $wgPersistentPageIdentifiersFormat
Hooks used InfoAction LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates ParserFirstCallInit PageSaveComplete ParserTestGlobals
Licence	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL commit history README CHANGELOG

The Persistent Page Identifiers extension provides stable, unique identifiers for pages, UUID (v7), or PURIs, are accessible via a parser function and REST API. Since version 1.1.0 the extension also provides a special page for resolving UUIDs.

See the Persistent Page Identifiers documentation for a comprehensive overview of features, usage instructions, installation instructions, and configuration reference.

Meemoo and Podiumkunsten funded the initial development of the extension.