User:Krinkle/MediaWiki Introduction 2023
MediaWiki Introduction 2023 is a 3-part video series by Timo Tijhof, recorded in December 2023 for the MediaWiki Code Jam.
Part 1: MediaWiki core concepts
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Timestamps:
00:00 Outline 00:50 Database schema 01:37 Users 02:55 Preferences 04:12 Localisation 05:02 Permissions 08:50 Bot passwords 10:10 Logging 11:58 Comments 12:35 Recent changes 15:39 Pages 16:00 Namespaces 18:14 Revisions 18:20 Example: Save an edit 19:59 Example: View a page 20:52 Link tables 21:02 Categories 24:20 Templates 25:05 Image links 25:59 GLAM 26:43 External links 27:40 Statistics 28:02 Search 29:14 JobQueue 31:58 Multimedia
High-level product and architecture perspective. Component walk-through.
- Database layout
- Who writes Wikipedia
- Why create an account
- CSSJanus docs
- CSSJanus demo
- Permissions
- Change user rights
- Bot passwords
- Logging
- No original research
- Recent changes
- RCFeed
- Listen to Wikipedia
- CodePen
- ClueBot
- Namespaces
- Special pages
- Page table
- Revision table
- Text table
- External storage
- Example category
- Everything is a wiki page
- GLAM
- Glamorous tool
- Example photo
- Statistics
- JobQueue
- Performance practices
- Multimedia
Part 2: Wikipedia's extensions
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Timestamps:
00:00 Outline 00:25 What is an extension? 01:52 How to install an extension? 02:01 Install WikiEditor 02:54 Install VisualEditor 03:58 Wikipedia's extensions 04:10 CentralAuth 04:38 Echo 04:56 OAuth for MediaWiki 05:40 Editor extensions 05:48 Parser extensions 06:37 Cite extension 07:37 EasyTimeline 07:56 InputBox extension 08:38 Scribunto 09:38 Faster editing performance 11:24 Media handlers 11:31 TimedMediaHandler 11:42 3D extension for MediaWiki 11:57 Spam prevention extensions 12:35 Gadgets 13:05 Gadget demo 13:41 Gadget examples
What is an extension?
How to install an extension in two easy steps.
Walk-through the installed extensions via Wikipedia's Special:Version page.
- What is an extension
- WikiEditor extension
- VisualEditor extension
- Wikipedia's extensions
- CentralAuth
- Echo
- Cite
- EasyTimeline
- EasyTimeline example: Version lifecycle
- InputBox
- InputBox example: Incident status
- Scribunto
- Lua example: SchemaDiagram
- What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia (2013)
- How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast (2014)
- Save Timing in Grafana
- TimedMediaHandler
- 3D extension
- AbuseFilter
- Gadgets
- Gadget example: RTRC
- Gadget example: Stockphoto
- Half-timbered mansion, by Radomianin
Part 3: Write an example patch
- Quickstart
- Run PHPUnit.
- Run QUnit.
- Install the "examples" extension.
- Patch:
- Output some HTML on a Special page.
- Edit a localisation message.
- Change the logic of a hook.
- Add output to an API.