Introduction to technical
Wikimedia world, MediaWiki and
bots
Wiki
Wikipedia
Wikimedia
MediaWiki
Wiki CMS
Built mostly in:
- PHP
- JavaScript
Working with Docker
Docker images used
We build the one above following README instructions, modifying Bash scripts and Dockerfile if desired
We can build this one as well. Alternately we can reuse it from:
https://hub.docker.com/r/toniher/debian-python-mediawiki/
However you need to mount example scripts provided in the repo above
Wikitext
- Original content type
- Nowadays also other content types accepted
Namespaces
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Main
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Talk
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User
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Category
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Template
Templates
MediaWiki functions
Templates
Ordered parameters
{{MyTemplate | Hello | World }}
{{{1|Hi}}}, {{{2|Moon}}} !
Template:MyTemplate
Templates
Named parameters
{{MyNamedTemplate | greeting=Hello | recipient=World }}
Template:MyNamedTemplate
{{{greeting|Hi}}}, {{{recipient|Moon}}} !
Parser functions
{{#parser: param1 | param2 | ... }}
Parser functions
Examples
- expr (simple maths)
- if, switch (conditionals)
- time (time format)
Parser functions
Custom ones
(via extensions)
Modules
Extending parser functions to everyone (now with Lua)
Example, for citation:
Special Pages
Managing MediaWiki
Special:SpecialPages
Bots
The hidden ones
MediaWiki API
Accessing MediaWiki programatically
MediaWiki API clients / libraries
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Perl (MediaWiki::API, MediaWiki::Bot)
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Python (Mwclient, Pywikibot)
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JavaScript (nodemw)
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etc.
Mwclient
A MediaWiki API Python client library
RESTBase
A sophisticated Wikipedia REST API
Semantic MediaWiki
A wiki-based annotation database
Semantic MediaWiki
Property :: Value
Germany
[[Has capital::Berlin]] is its capital. It has a population of [[Has population::81292400|more than 8 milions]].
Property:Has capital
Property:Has population
[[Has type::Page]].
[[Has type::Number]].