Introduction to MediaWiki 2023: Core concepts (Part 1)
Channel: MediaWiki
Date: 2023-12-14

Details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/MediaWiki_Introduction_2023

Links:
Database layout. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DB
Who writes Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Who_writes_Wikipedia%3F
Why create an account? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F
CSSJanus docs. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CSSJanus
CSSJanus demo. https://doc.wikimedia.org/cssjanus/master/
Permissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
Change user rights. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_rights_and_groups
Bot passwords. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bot_passwords
Logging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log
No original research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
Recent changes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges
RCFeed. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RCFeed
Listen to Wikipedia. http://listen.hatnote.com/
CodePen. https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/BwEKgW
ClueBot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot_NG
Namespaces. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces
Special pages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Specialpages
Page table. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table
Revision table. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Revision_table
Text table. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Text_table
External storage. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_storage
Example category. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_programmed_in_PHP
Everything is a wiki page. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_wiki_page
GLAM. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Example photo. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Low-end_EF3_damage_to_a_home_in_Virginia_Beach,_Virginia.jpg
Statistics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
JobQueue. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Job_queue/For_developers
MediaWiki Engineering - Performance practices. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Engineering/Guides/Backend_performance_practices
Multimedia. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload.wikimedia.org

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