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This page is intended for technical contributors and software developers who wish to understand and use the MediaWiki Action API. This page provides an overview of the MediaWiki Action API, represented by the api.php endpoint. Using the API in MediaWiki and extensions.Perform a prefix search for page titles.Advanced search for wiki pages by title or text.Search wiki pages by title (OpenSearch).Get the current user's watchlist as a feed.Get tokens for data modifying operations.Get meta information about the wiki and user.Our 'wiki works'.This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation. A MediaWiki consultant from WikiWorks will email you back to discuss the possibilities the consultation is free.

To talk with us, please write to us at to let us know about your specific needs. Podcast: Yaron hosts the podcast Between the Brackets, which every two weeks has an interview with a different notable MediaWiki developer or user.Ĭontact us. The book is available for ordering, and can also be viewed in its entirety online.

It covers all aspects of running a MediaWiki installation, and includes many of the tips and best practices we have learned during our years of consulting. Our book: Check out Yaron Koren's MediaWiki reference book, Working with MediaWiki. Hosting: We can do custom hosting for your wiki(s) on an independent server, with whatever customizations and level of service you need. It makes installation and maintenance of MediaWiki, and its most popular extensions, much easier to do we recommend the use of Canasta to anyone, and use it as much as possible within our own projects as well. If you hire us, one or more consultants will be assigned to your project, based on the nature of the work our consultants generally work remotely.Ĭanasta: A Docker-based MediaWiki distribution, created by a consortium of companies, including WikiWorks.

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On our staff we also have other MediaWiki developers, and people with significant experience implementing MediaWiki solutions.Īt WikiWorks, we can handle any and all aspects of creating a wiki, from installing MediaWiki and any necessary extensions, to creating a skin and logo, to designing the data structure, to providing ongoing technical support, to doing custom development ( see here for a listing of our development work), to providing tutorials on wiki usage, to giving tips on how to increase usage and visibility of your wiki. Our founder, Yaron Koren, is a veteran MediaWiki programmer who is one of the key developers of so-called 'Enterprise MediaWiki'. Here are some additional WikiWorks links:Ībout WikiWorks: We are a consulting company, formed in 2009, that implements MediaWiki solutions for clients large and small.

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If you use Microsoft SharePoint specifically, or you're considering using it, read here about why we think using Cargo or Semantic MediaWiki, plus Page Forms, makes the better choice, at ' Enterprise MediaWiki vs. We have significant experience with both applications, and we recommend incorporating either one into wiki solutions whenever possible. These extensions can turn a wiki into a collaborative database, letting many people work on the same data set without fear of users overriding each others' contributions. These include Cargo, Semantic MediaWiki and Page Forms which together or separately allow wikis to store data that can then be queried and displayed in many different ways. There are a number of important extensions to MediaWiki that do not get used on sites like Wikipedia, but get used heavily within companies and organizations.

Read more about MediaWiki and its strengths at ' Why MediaWiki?'. It is also the most popular wiki application in the world, in use on tens of thousands of sites in many different languages, on wikis for everyone from small groups to communities to government agencies and major corporations. About MediaWiki: MediaWiki is the open-source wiki application best known for powering Wikipedia.