This documentation describes the public API that user scripts, gadgets, skins, and extensions can use to interact with MediaWiki. To interact with MediaWiki from outside a wiki, use the Action API.
The MediaWiki frontend API consists of global variables and ResourceLoader modules.
- Write your first user script
- Develop extensions and skins
Browse namespaces and classes within the MediaWiki base library.
Load modules and scripts to use in your code.
Get information about wikis, pages, and users. See the complete list of configuration values.
Interact with a wiki's API to query pages, edit pages, perform patrolling actions, and more.
- mw.Api — The Action API is a full-featured API that includes a complete set of actions and parameters. To try it out, visit Special:ApiSandbox on any wiki.
- mw.Rest — The REST API is a simplified API for performing basic read and write operations.
Hooks let you register and fire events that you can use to extend and enhance the behavior of MediaWiki.
Handle translatable text or HTML strings that are part of the MediaWiki interface.
Display pop-up notifications to users.
Get information about users, sessions, and user preferences.
Construct and parse page elements.
Get helpful methods for handling URLs, CSS, regular expressions, and more.
Log errors, send deprecation warnings, and debug your code.
- jQuery plugins
- OOjs — JavaScript library for working with objects
- OOUI — component-based JavaScript UI library