Manual:Hooks

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Extensions:

Hooks allow custom code to be executed when some defined event (such as saving a page or a user logging in) occurs. For example, the following code snippet will trigger a call to the function MyExtensionHooks::pageContentSaveComplete whenever the PageContentSaveComplete hook runs, passing it function arguments specific to PageContentSaveComplete.

Hooks can be registered by mapping the name of the hook to the callback in the extension's extension.json file:

"Hooks": {
    "PageContentSaveComplete": "MyExtensionHooks::onPageContentSaveComplete"
}

MediaWiki provides many hooks like this to extend the functionality of the MediaWiki software. Assigning a function (known as an event handler) to a hook will cause that function to be called at the appropriate point in the main MediaWiki code, to perform whatever additional task(s) the developer thinks would be useful at that point. Each hook can have multiple handlers assigned to it, in which case it will call the functions in the order that they are assigned, with any modifications made by one function passed on to subsequent functions in the chain.

Assign functions to hooks at the end of LocalSettings.php or in your own extension file at the file scope (not in a $wgExtensionFunctions function or the ParserFirstCallInit hook). For extensions, if the hook function's behavior is conditioned on a setting in LocalSettings.php, the hook should be assigned and the function should terminate early if the condition was not met.

You can also create new hooks in your own extension; if you do so, add them to the Extension hook registry.

Background

A hook is triggered by a call to HookContainer::run, usually via a method in HookRunner. HookContainer will find the hook handlers to run, and calls them with the parameters given to HookContainer::run. Hook handlers are registered via extension.json .

Writing an event handler

An event handler is a function you assign to a hook, which will be run whenever the event represented by that hook occurs. It consists of:

a function with some optional accompanying data, or
an object with a method and some optional accompanying data.

Register the event handler by adding it to the global $wgHooks array for a given event. Hooks can be added from any point in the execution before the hook is called, but are most commonly added in LocalSettings.php, its included files, or, for extensions, in the file extension.json. All the following are valid ways to define a hook function for the event EventName that is passed two parameters, showing the code that will be executed when EventName happens:

Format	Syntax	Resulting function call.
Static function	`$wgHooks['EventName'][] = 'MyExtensionHooks::onEventName';`	`MyExtensionHooks::onEventName( $param1, $param2 );`
Function, no data	`$wgHooks['EventName'][] = 'someFunction';`	`someFunction( $param1, $param2 );`
Function with data	`$wgHooks['EventName'][] = [ 'someFunction', $someData ];`	`someFunction( $someData, $param1, $param2 );`
Function, no data (weird syntax, but OK)	`$wgHooks['EventName'][] = [ 'someFunction' ];`	`someFunction( $param1, $param2 );`
inline anonymous function	$wgHooks['EventName'][] = function ( $param1, $param2 ) { // ...function body };	(the anonymous function is called with the hook's parameters)
Object only	`$wgHooks['EventName'][] = $object;`	`$object->onEventName( $param1, $param2 );`
Object with method	`$wgHooks['EventName'][] = [ $object, 'someMethod' ];`	`$object->someMethod( $param1, $param2 );`
Object with method and data	`$wgHooks['EventName'][] = [ $object, 'someMethod', $someData ];`	`$object->someMethod( $someData, $param1, $param2 );`
Object only (weird syntax, but OK)	`$wgHooks['EventName'][] = [ $object ];`	`$object->onEventName( $param1, $param2 );`

For extensions, the syntax is similar in the file extension.json (corresponding to the first and second case above):

{
	"Hooks": {
		"EventName": [
			"MyExtensionHooks::onEventName",
			"someFunction"
		]
	}
}

When an event occurs, the function (or object method) that you registered will be called, the event's parameters, along with any optional data you provided at registration. Note that when an object is the hook and you didn't specify a method, the method called is "onEventName". For other events this would be 'onArticleSave', 'onUserLogin', etc.

The optional data is useful if you want to use the same function or object for different purposes. For example:

$wgHooks['PageContentSaveComplete'][] = [ 'ircNotify', 'TimStarling' ];
$wgHooks['PageContentSaveComplete'][] = [ 'ircNotify', 'brion' ];

This code would result in ircNotify being run twice when a page is saved: once for 'TimStarling', and once for 'brion'.

Event handlers can return one of three possible values:

no return value (or null): the hook handler has operated successfully. (Before MediaWiki 1.23, returning true was required.)
"some string": an error occurred; processing should stop and the error should be shown to the user
false: the hook handler has done all the work necessary, or replaced normal handling. This will prevent further handlers from being run, and in some cases tells the calling function to skip normal processing.

In many cases where an error message is expected, the hook will define a variable passed as a reference for extensions to store an error message and this is preferred over returning a string that will simply be displayed as an "internal error."

Returning false makes less sense for events where the action is complete, and will normally be ignored by the caller.

Handling hooks in MediaWiki 1.35 and later

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.35

MediaWiki 1.35 introduces a system for handling hooks based on individual hook interfaces. This system allows for dependency injection, provides machine-readable parameter names and types, and integrates hook documentation with code editors.

For extensions, methods of registering and handling hooks in MediaWiki 1.34 and earlier are not being deprecated and will continue to work as expected. Extension authors who want to pilot the new system are welcome to do so. To learn more, see the hook specification in MediaWiki Core and the announcement on wikitech-l.

Changes to hook names

Prior to MediaWiki 1.35, several hooks included colons in their names. With the implementation of hook interfaces, colons in hook names have been replaced with underscores. For example, the interface for ApiFeedContributions::feedItem is ApiFeedContributions__feedItemHook. This does not impact extensions using the hook system in MediaWiki 1.34 and earlier.

Registering hooks using HookHandlers

To register a hook in an extension's extension.json file, the new system uses HookHandlers to specify how the handler object is created. Instead of mapping a hook directly to a function, a hook maps to a HookHandlers object which specifies the class and has the option to inject services.^[1]

For example, to register the BeforePageDisplay hook:

{
    "Hooks": {
        "BeforePageDisplay": "main"
    },
    "HookHandlers": {
        "main": {
            "class": "MediaWiki\\Extension\\MyExtension\\HookHandler",
            "services": [ "UserNameUtils" ]
        }
    }
}

Handling hooks using interfaces

To work with registration using HookHandlers, extensions should define an event handler class that implements the hook interface. Hook interfaces are named with the hook name with "Hook" appended.

namespace MediaWiki\Extension\MyExtension;

use OutputPage;
use Skin;

class HookHandler implements BeforePageDisplayHook {
    public function onBeforePageDisplayHook( $out, $skin ) { ... }
}

Hook behavior before MediaWiki 1.22 vs after

Extracted from: change 500542: for non-abortable hooks (most hooks) returning true has been redundant since MediaWiki 1.22 (in 2015). This was done to reduce chances of accidental failure because we had experienced several outages and broken features due to silent failures where e.g. one hook callback somewhere accidentally returned a non-bool or false instead of true/void and thus short-circuits the whole system.

(Returning non-true/non-void in a MediaWiki Hook is equivalent to e.preventDefault and e.stopImmediatePropagation in JavaScript events, it kills other listeners for the same event).

For example, if onBeforePageDisplay hook were to return false in MobileFrontend, it would mean Popups stops because its callback would no longer run. See differences below, assuming the hook onBeforePageDisplay.

Before MediaWiki 1.22

public static function onBeforePageDisplay( OutputPage $out, Skin $skin ) {
    // some code
    return true; // explicit
}

or

public static function onBeforePageDisplay( OutputPage $out, Skin $skin ) {
    // some code
    return; // explicit
}

MediaWiki 1.22+

public static function onBeforePageDisplay( OutputPage $out, Skin $skin ) {
    // some code
    // no need for a return true or return
}

Documentation

Currently, hooks in MediaWiki core have to be documented both in hook interface (in the source code repository) and here on MediaWiki.org. In some cases, one of these steps may not yet have been completed, so if a hook appears undocumented, check both.

Each hook provided by MediaWiki Core is defined in a hook interface. Typically, hook interfaces are located in a "Hook" sub-namespace inside the caller namespace. For example, Storage/Hook/PageContentSaveCompleteHook.php. You can find a list of hook interfaces in the generated MediaWiki PHP documentation.

To document a hook on-wiki, use {{MediaWikiHook}}.

As of June 2020, docs/hooks.txt is deprecated as a source of documentation for individual hooks. For more information about the introduction of hooks based on HookContainer, see the hook specification in MediaWiki Core.

Hook interface doc template

In hook interfaces, doc comments specify the status, purpose, parameters, and behavior of the hook.

/**
 * @stable for implementation
 * @ingroup Hooks
 */
interface NameHook {
	/**
	 * This hook is called after/before/when...
	 * Use this hook to...
	 *
	 * @since x.xx
	 *
	 * @param type $name Description
	 * @return bool|void True or no return value to continue or false to abort
	 */
	public function onName( $param );
}

Available hooks

Hooks grouped by function

Some of these hooks can be grouped into multiple functions.

Sections: Article Management - Edit Page - Page Rendering - User Interface - Special Pages - User Management - Logging - Skinning Templates - API - Import/Export - Miscellaneous

Warning:

New hooks are added to MediaWiki fairly frequently, so this list is not always completely up to date. As with most documentation on this site, if you need complete up-to-the-minute information you are advised to consult the generated list of hook interfaces. As ever, you are encouraged to update this list to correct any errors or omissions.

Function	Version	Hook	Description
Article Management	1.4.0	ArticleDelete	Occurs whenever the software receives a request to delete an article
	1.4.0	ArticleDeleteComplete	Occurs after the delete article request has been processed
	1.9.1	ArticleUndelete	When one or more revisions of an article are restored
	1.12.0	ArticleRevisionUndeleted	Occurs after an article revision is restored
	1.8.0	ArticleFromTitle	Called to determine the class to handle the article rendering, based on title
	1.4.0	ArticleProtect	Occurs whenever the software receives a request to protect an article
	1.4.0	ArticleProtectComplete	Occurs after the protect article request has been processed
	1.6.0	ArticleInsertComplete	Occurs after a new article has been created
	1.11.0	RevisionInsertComplete	Called after a revision is inserted into the DB
	1.4.0	ArticleSave	(deprecated) (use MultiContentSave) Occurs whenever the software receives a request to save an article
	1.21.0	PageContentSave	(deprecated) (use MultiContentSave) Occurs whenever the software receives a request to save an article
	1.35.0	MultiContentSave	Occurs whenever the software receives a request to save an article
	1.4.0	ArticleSaveComplete	(deprecated) (use PageContentSaveComplete) Occurs after the save article request has been processed
	1.21.0	ConvertContent	Called when a conversion to another content model is requested.
	1.21.0	PageContentSaveComplete	Occurs after the save article request has been processed
	1.11.0	ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect	Occurs after a page is updated (usually on save), before the user is redirected back to the page
	1.5.7	ArticleEditUpdateNewTalk	Allows an extension to prevent user notification when a new message is added to their talk page.
	1.14.0	ArticleEditUpdates	Called when edit updates (mainly link tracking) are made when an article has been changed.
	1.6.0	ArticleEditUpdatesDeleteFromRecentchanges	Occurs before saving to the database. If returning false old entries are not deleted from the recentchangeslist.
	1.8.0	RecentChange_save	Called after a "Recent Change" is committed to the DB
	1.6.0	SpecialMovepageAfterMove	Called after a page is moved.
	1.22.0	TitleMove	Occurs before a requested pagemove is performed
	1.4.0	TitleMoveComplete	Occurs whenever a request to move an article is completed
	1.25.0	MovePageIsValidMove	Specify whether a page can be moved for technical reasons.
	1.12.0	ArticleRollbackComplete	Occurs after an article rollback is completed
	1.12.0	ArticleMergeComplete	after merging to article using Special:Mergehistory
	1.6.0	ArticlePurge	Allows an extension to cancel a purge.
	1.13.0	ArticleRevisionVisibilitySet	called when changing visibility of one or more revisions of an article
	1.21.0	ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor	called when deciding the default content model for a given title.
	1.21.0	ContentHandlerForModelID	called when a ContentHandler is requested for a given content model name, but no entry for that model exists in $wgContentHandlers .
	1.23.0	Article::MissingArticleConditions	called when showing a page.
	1.20.0	TitleIsAlwaysKnown	Allows overriding default behaviour for determining if a page exists.
Edit Page	1.6.0	AlternateEdit	Used to replace the entire edit page, altogether.
	1.21.0	AlternateEditPreview	Allows replacement of the edit preview
	1.6.0	EditFilter	Perform checks on an edit
	1.12.0	EditFilterMerged	(deprecated) (use EditFilterMergedContent) Post-section-merge edit filter
	1.21.0	EditFilterMergedContent	Post-section-merge edit filter
	1.7.0	EditFormPreloadText	Called when edit page for a new article is shown. This lets you fill the text-box of a new page with initial wikitext.
	1.8.3	EditPage::attemptSave	Called before an article is saved, that is before insertNewArticle() is called
	1.6.0	EditPage::showEditForm:fields	Allows injection of form field into edit form.
	1.6.0	EditPage::showEditForm:initial	Allows injection of HTML into edit form
	1.21.0	EditPage::showStandardInputs:options	Allows injection of form fields into the editOptions area
	1.13.0	EditPageBeforeConflictDiff	Allows modifying the EditPage object and output when there's an edit conflict.
	1.12.0	EditPageBeforeEditButtons	Used to modify the edit buttons on the edit form
	1.14.0	EditPageBeforeEditChecks	Allows modifying the edit checks below the textarea in the edit form
Page Rendering	1.27.0	AfterBuildFeedLinks	Executed after all feed links are created.
	1.6.0	ArticlePageDataBefore	Executes before data is loaded for the article requested.
	1.6.0	ArticlePageDataAfter	Executes after loading the data of an article from the database.
	1.6.0	ArticleViewHeader	Called after an articleheader is shown.
	1.6.0	PageRenderingHash	Alter the parser cache option hash key.
	1.6.0	ArticleAfterFetchContent	Used to process raw wiki code after most of the other parser processing is complete.
	1.22.0	GalleryGetModes	Allows extensions to add classes that can render different modes of a gallery.
	1.6.0	ParserClearState	Called at the end of Parser::clearState()
	1.21.0	ParserCloned	Called when the Parser object is cloned.
	1.5.0	ParserBeforeStrip	Used to process the raw wiki code before any internal processing is applied.
	1.5.0	ParserAfterStrip	(deprecated) Before version 1.14.0, used to process raw wiki code after text surrounded by `<nowiki>` tags have been protected but before any other wiki text has been processed. In version 1.14.0 and later, runs immediately after ParserBeforeStrip.
	1.6.0	ParserBeforeInternalParse	Replaces the normal processing of stripped wiki text with custom processing. Used primarily to support alternatives (rather than additions) to the core MediaWiki markup syntax.
	1.6.0	ParserGetVariableValueVarCache	Use this to change the value of the variable cache or return false to not use it.
	1.6.0	ParserGetVariableValueTs	Use this to change the value of the time for the {{LOCAL...}} magic word.
	1.6.0	ParserGetVariableValueSwitch	Assigns a value to a user defined variable.
	1.10.0	InternalParseBeforeLinks	Used to process the expanded wiki code after <nowiki>, HTML-comments, and templates have been treated. Suitable for syntax extensions that want to customize the treatment of internal link syntax, i.e. `[[....]]`.
	1.13.0	LinkerMakeExternalLink	Called before the HTML for external links is returned. Used for modifying external link HTML.
	1.13.0	LinkerMakeExternalImage	Called before external image HTML is returned. Used for modifying external image HTML.
	1.23.0	LinkerMakeMediaLinkFile	Called before the HTML for media links is returned. Used for modifying media link HTML.
	1.11.0	EditSectionLink	(deprecated) Override the return value of Linker::editSectionLink(). Called after creating [edit] link in header in Linker::editSectionLink but before HTML is displayed.
	1.11.0	EditSectionLinkForOther	(deprecated) Override the return value of Linker::editSectionLinkForOther(). Called after creating [edit] link in header in Linker::editSectionLinkForOther but before HTML is displayed.
	1.5.0	ParserBeforeTidy	Used to process the nearly-rendered html code for the page (but before any html tidying occurs).
	1.5.0	ParserAfterTidy	Used to add some final processing to the fully-rendered page output.
	1.24.0	ContentGetParserOutput	Customize parser output for a given content object, called by AbstractContent::getParserOutput. May be used to override the normal model-specific rendering of page content.
	1.8.0	OutputPageParserOutput	Called after parse, before the HTML is added to the output.
	1.6.0	OutputPageBeforeHTML	Called every time wikitext is added to the OutputPage, after it is parsed but before it is added. Called after the page has been rendered, but before the HTML is displayed.
	1.4.3	CategoryPageView	Called before viewing a categorypage in CategoryPage::view
	1.5.1	ArticleViewRedirect	Allows an extension to prevent the display of a "Redirected From" link on a redirect page.
	1.10.0	IsFileCacheable	Allow an extension to disable file caching on pages.
	1.10.1	BeforeParserFetchTemplateAndtitle	Allows an extension to specify a version of a page to get for inclusion in a template.
	1.18.0	BeforeParserFetchFileAndTitle	Allows an extension to select a different version of an image to link to.
	1.10.1	BeforeParserrenderImageGallery	Allows an extension to modify an image gallery before it is rendered.
	1.17.0	ResourceLoaderRegisterModules	Allows registering modules with ResourceLoader
	1.24.0	SidebarBeforeOutput	Directly before the sidebar is output
User Interface	1.5.4	AutoAuthenticate	Called to authenticate users on external/environmental means
	1.4.0	UserLoginComplete	Occurs after a user has successfully logged in
	1.18.0	BeforeWelcomeCreation	Allows an extension to change the message displayed upon a successful login.
	1.4.0	UserLogout	Occurs when the software receives a request to log out
	1.4.0	UserLogoutComplete	Occurs after a user has successfully logged out
	1.6.0	userCan	To interrupt/advise the "user can do X to Y article" check
	1.4.0	WatchArticle	Occurs whenever the software receives a request to watch an article
	1.4.0	WatchArticleComplete	Occurs after the watch article request has been processed
	1.4.0	UnwatchArticle	Occurs whenever the software receives a request to unwatch an article
	1.4.0	UnwatchArticleComplete	Occurs after the unwatch article request has been processed
	1.6.0	MarkPatrolled	Called before an edit is marked patrolled
	1.6.0	MarkPatrolledComplete	Called after an edit is marked patrolled
	1.4.0	EmailUser	Occurs whenever the software receives a request to send an email from one user to another
	1.4.0	EmailUserComplete	Occurs after an email has been sent from one user to another
	1.6.0	SpecialMovepageAfterMove	Called after a page is moved.
	1.19.0	SpecialSearchCreateLink	Called when making the message to create a page or go to an existing page
	1.17.0	SpecialSearchGo	(deprecated)
	1.6.0	SpecialSearchNogomatch	Called when the 'Go' feature is triggered and the target doesn't exist. Full text search results are generated after this hook is called
	1.19.0	SpecialSearchPowerBox	the equivalent of SpecialSearchProfileForm for the advanced form
	1.5.7	ArticleEditUpdateNewTalk	Before updating user_newtalk when a user talk page was changed.
	1.5.7	UserRetrieveNewTalks	called when retrieving "You have new messages!" message(s)
	1.5.7	UserClearNewTalkNotification	called when clearing the "You have new messages!" message, return false to not delete it
	1.6.0	ArticlePurge	Executes before running "&action=purge"
File Upload	1.6.0	UploadVerification	(deprecated) (use UploadVerifyFile) Called when a file is uploaded, to allow extra file verification to take place
	1.17	UploadVerifyFile	Called when a file is uploaded, to allow extra file verification to take place
	1.28	UploadVerifyUpload	(preferred) Can be used to reject a file upload. Unlike 'UploadVerifyFile' it provides information about upload comment and the file description page, but does not run for uploads to stash.
	1.6.4	UploadComplete	Called when a file upload has completed.
Special pages	1.6.0	SpecialPageGetRedirect
	1.24.0	SpecialBlockModifyFormFields	Add or modify block fields of Special:Block
	1.28.0	SpecialContributions::formatRow::flags	Called before rendering a Special:Contributions row.
	1.13.0	SpecialListusersDefaultQuery	Called right before the end of UsersPager::getDefaultQuery()
	1.13.0	SpecialListusersFormatRow	Called right before the end of UsersPager::formatRow()
	1.13.0	SpecialListusersHeader	Called before closing the `<fieldset>` in UsersPager::getPageHeader()
	1.13.0	SpecialListusersHeaderForm	Called before adding the submit button in UsersPager::getPageHeader()
	1.13.0	SpecialListusersQueryInfo	Called right before the end of UsersPager::getQueryInfo()
	1.6.0	SpecialPageExecuteBeforeHeader	(deprecated) called before setting the header text of the special page
	1.6.0	SpecialPageExecuteBeforePage	(deprecated) Called before setting the page text of the special page
	1.6.0	SpecialPageExecuteAfterPage	(deprecated) called after executing a special page
	1.6.0	SpecialVersionExtensionTypes	(deprecated) Adds to the types that can be used with $wgExtensionCredits
	1.7.0	SpecialPage_initList	Called after the Special Page list is populated
	1.9.0	UploadForm:initial	Called just before the upload form is generated
	1.9.0	UploadForm:BeforeProcessing	Called just before the file data (for example description) are processed, so extensions have a chance to manipulate them.
	1.14.0	UserrightsChangeableGroups	Called after the list of groups that can be manipulated via Special:UserRights is populated, but before it is returned.
	1.24.0	WhatLinksHereProps	Allows extensions to annotate WhatLinksHere entries.
User Management	1.5.0	AddNewAccount	Called after a user account is created (deprecated)
	1.26.0	LocalUserCreated	Called immediately after a local user has been created and saved to the database.
	1.27.0	SessionMetadata	Add metadata to a session being saved
	1.27.0	SessionCheckInfo	Validate session info as it's being loaded from storage
	1.27.0	SecuritySensitiveOperationStatus	Affect the return value from AuthManager::securitySensitiveOperationStatus()
	1.27.0	UserLoggedIn	Called after a user is logged in
	1.4.0	BlockIp	Occurs whenever the software receives a request to block (or change the block settings of) an IP address or user
	1.4.0	BlockIpComplete	Occurs after the request to block (or change block settings of) an IP or user has been processed
	1.29.0	UnblockUser	Occurs whenever the software receives a request to unblock an IP address or user
	1.29.0	UnblockUserComplete	Occurs after the request to unblock an IP or user has been processed
	1.29.0	ChangeUserGroups	Called before a user's group memberships are changed
	1.6.0	UserRights	(deprecated) (use UserGroupsChanged) Called after a user's group memberships are changed
	1.11.0	UserGetRights	Called in User::getRights() to dynamically add rights
	1.32.0	UserGetRightsRemove	Called in User::getRights() to dynamically remove rights
	1.6.0	GetBlockedStatus	Fired after the user's getBlockStatus is set
	1.26.0	UserIsLocked	Fired to check if a user account is locked
Logging	1.6.0	LogPageActionText	(deprecated) Strings used by wfMsg as a header.
	1.5.0	LogPageLogHeader	(deprecated)
	1.5.0	LogPageLogName	(deprecated)
	1.5.0	LogPageValidTypes	(deprecated)
	1.26.0	LogException	Called before an exception (or PHP error) is logged.
Skinning / Templates	1.7.0	BeforePageDisplay	Allows last minute changes to the output page, e.g. adding of CSS or Javascript by extensions.
	1.6.0	MonoBookTemplateToolboxEnd	Called by Monobook skin after toolbox links have been rendered (useful for adding more)
	1.7.0	PersonalUrls	(SkinTemplate.php) Called after the list of personal URLs (links at the top in Monobook) has been populated.
	1.24.0	PostLoginRedirect	(SpecialUserlogin.php) Modify the post login redirect behavior.
	1.23.0	BaseTemplateAfterPortlet	(SkinTemplate.php) After rendering of portlets.
	1.11.0	SkinAfterBottomScripts	(Skin.php) At the end of Skin::bottomScripts()
	1.12.0	SkinSubPageSubtitle	(Skin.php) Called before the list of subpage links on top of a subpage is generated
	1.5.0	SkinTemplateContentActions	Called after the default tab list is populated (list is context dependent i.e. "normal" article or "special page").
	1.16.0	SkinTemplateNavigation	Called on content pages only after tabs have been added, but before variants have been added. See the other two SkinTemplateNavigation hooks for other points tabs can be modified at.
	1.18.0	SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal	Called on both content and special pages after variants have been added
	1.18.0	SkinTemplateNavigation::SpecialPage	Called on special pages after the special tab is added but before variants have been added
	1.6.0	SkinTemplatePreventOtherActiveTabs	Called to enable/disable the inclusion of additional tabs to the skin.
	1.6.0	SkinTemplateSetupPageCss	(deprecated) Sets up the CSS for a skin
	1.6.0	SkinTemplateBuildContentActionUrlsAfterSpecialPage	(deprecated) After the single tab when showing a special page
	1.6.0	SkinTemplateBuildNavUrlsNav_urlsAfterPermalink	Called after the permalink has been entered in navigation URL array.
	1.23.0	SkinTemplateGetLanguageLink	Called after building the data for a language link from which the actual html is constructed.
	1.27.0	AuthChangeFormFields	Allows modification of AuthManager-based forms
	1.25.0	LoginFormValidErrorMessages	Allows to add additional error messages (SpecialUserLogin.php).
	1.25.0	MinervaDiscoveryTools	Allow other extensions to add or override discovery tools (SkinMinerva.php).
API	1.23.0	ApiBeforeMain	Called before ApiMain is executed
	1.13.0	APIEditBeforeSave	Called right before saving an edit submitted through api.php?action=edit
	1.13.0	APIQueryInfoTokens	Use this hook to add custom tokens to prop=info
	1.13.0	APIQueryRevisionsTokens	Use this hook to add custom tokens to prop=revisions
	1.14.0	APIQueryRecentChangesTokens	Use this hook to add custom tokens to list=recentchanges
	1.14.0	APIGetAllowedParams	Use this hook to modify a module's parameters
	1.14.0	APIGetParamDescription	Use this hook to modify a module's parameter descriptions
	1.14.0	APIAfterExecute	Use this hook to extend core API modules
	1.14.0	APIQueryAfterExecute	Use this hook to extend core API query modules
	1.14.0	APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute	Use this hook to extend core API query modules
	1.23.0	GetExtendedMetadata	Allows including additional file metadata information in the imageinfo API.
	1.23.0	AddNewAccountApiForm	Allows modifying the internal login form when creating an account via the API.
	1.23.0	AddNewAccountApiResult	Modifies the API output when an account is created via the API.
	1.25.0	ApiOpenSearchSuggest	Called when constructing the OpenSearch results. Hooks can alter or append to the array.
Import/Export	1.17.0	AfterImportPage	When a page import is completed
	1.17.0	ImportHandleLogItemXMLTag	When parsing a XML tag in a log item
	1.17.0	ImportHandlePageXMLTag	When parsing a XML tag in a page
	1.17.0	ImportHandleRevisionXMLTag	When parsing a XML tag in a page revision
	1.17.0	ImportHandleToplevelXMLTag	When parsing a top level XML tag
	1.17.0	ImportHandleUploadXMLTag	When parsing a XML tag in a file upload
	1.16.0	ModifyExportQuery	Modify the query used by the exporter.
	1.15.0	WikiExporter::dumpStableQuery	Get the SELECT query for "stable" revisions dumps
	1.16.0	XmlDumpWriterOpenPage	Called at the end of XmlDumpWriter::openPage, to allow extra metadata to be added.
	1.16.0	XmlDumpWriterWriteRevision	Called at the end of a revision in an XML dump, to add extra metadata.
Miscellaneous	1.19.0	AlternateUserMailer	Called before mail is sent so that mail could be logged (or something else) instead of using PEAR or PHP's mail().
	1.6.0	ArticleEditUpdatesDeleteFromRecentchanges	Occurs before saving to the database.
	1.21.0	CategoryAfterPageAdded	Called after a page is added to a category
	1.21.0	CategoryAfterPageRemoved	Called after a page is removed from a category
	1.19.0	Collation::factory	Allows extensions to register new collation names, to be used with $wgCategoryCollation
	1.8.0	DisplayOldSubtitle	Allows extensions to modify the displaying of links to other revisions when browsing through revisions.
	1.18.0	GetDefaultSortkey	Allows to override what the default sortkey is, which is used to order pages in a category.
	1.25.0	GetDifferenceEngine	Allows custom difference engine extensions such as Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikEdDiff.
	1.21.0	GetDoubleUnderscoreIDs	hook for modifying the list of magic words
	1.6.0	GetInternalURL	Used to modify fully-qualified URLs (useful for squid cache purging)
	1.6.0	GetLocalURL	Used to modify local URLs as output into page links
	1.6.0	GetFullURL	Used to modify fully-qualified URLs used in redirects/export/offsite data
	1.16.0	ImgAuthBeforeStream	Executed before file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
	1.22.0	LanguageLinks	Manipulate a page's language links.
	1.14.0	LinkBegin	Used when generating internal and interwiki links in Linker::link()
	1.14.0	LinkEnd	Used when generating internal and interwiki links in Linker::link(), just before the function returns a value.
	1.8.0	LoadAllMessages	(deprecated) Called when $wgMessageCache->loadAllMessages() has been invoked, allows extensions to inject their own messages.
	1.6.0	MagicWordMagicWords	(deprecated) Allows extensions to define new magic words.
	1.6.0	MagicWordwgVariableIDs	Tells MediaWiki that one or more magic word IDs should be treated as variables.
	1.12.0	MediaWikiPerformAction	Override MediaWiki::performAction()
	1.27.0	MediaWikiServices	Called when a global MediaWikiServices instance is initialised.
	1.5.7	MessagesPreLoad	Occurs when loading a message from the database
	1.6.0	ParserTestParser	called when creating a new instance of Parser for parser tests
	1.8.0	RecentChange_save	Called after a "Recent Change" is committed to the DB
	1.5.0	SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput	Before the form on Special:Contributions
	1.22.0	TitleSquidURLs	To modify/provide alternate URLs to send HTTP PURGE requests.
	1.17.0	UnitTestsList	Add tests that should be run as part of the unit test suite.
	1.30.0	UnitTestsAfterDatabaseSetup	Called right after MediaWiki's test infrastructure has finished creating/duplicating core tables for unit tests.
	1.30.0	UnitTestsBeforeDatabaseTeardown	Called right before MediaWiki's test infrastructure begins tearing down tables for unit tests.
	1.4.0	UnknownAction	(deprecated) Before MediaWiki 1.19, used to add new query-string actions.
	1.24.0	UserMailerChangeReturnPath	Called to generate a VERP return address when UserMailer sends an email, with a bounce handling extension.
	1.8.0	UserToggles	(deprecated) Called before returning user preference names. Use the GetPreferences hook instead.
	1.6.0	wgQueryPages	Runs for every Special page that extends the QueryPage class (fired when including the file QueryPage.php). It is only useful in maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php and in QueryPage Api.

Alphabetical list of hooks

For a complete list of hooks, use the category , which should be kept more up to date.

Footnotes

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