MediaWiki success story for a local bakery
A fictional but realistic case study: using MediaWiki templates, forms and structured data to standardize recipes, track ingredient costs and cut training time.
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Configuring Advanced Caching in MediaWiki for Better Performance
A verified tour of MediaWiki caching: what each cache stores, choosing backends ($wgMainCacheType, Redis, memcached, APCu), WANObjectCache for multi-DC, and what not to cache.
How to Use MediaWiki’s PageForms Extension to Create Custom Data Entry Forms
The form-building side of Page Forms: form markup, field types from text to combobox, autocomplete configuration, multi-instance templates and conditionals.
Enhancing MediaWiki Performance with PHP 8 and Redis Integration
A grounded guide to running MediaWiki on PHP 8.x with Redis: the honest performance expectations, phpredis configuration, object and session caches, and verification.
Setting Up Multi-Language Support in MediaWiki Using Translate Extension
The zero-to-multilingual path for MediaWiki: core language settings, URL structure per language, the Translate extension, and the content workflow that keeps translations current.
Advanced Templating in MediaWiki: Creating Dynamic Content
The advanced templating toolkit: named parameters, ParserFunctions patterns, #ifexist and #switch, and moving complex logic into Lua modules.
Why You Don't Know That You Need MediaWiki
A grounded look at MediaWiki's real use cases — documentation, knowledge bases, structured data — and when a wiki is the wrong choice.
Enhancing Your Wiki with the Latest MediaWiki Extensions
Which MediaWiki extensions are worth the maintenance: the editor stack, structured data, search, anti-abuse and translation, with honest notes on unmaintained ones.
Mastering MediaWiki Parser Functions for Advanced Templating
The practical ParserFunctions reference: conditionals, #switch, #expr, string functions and URL helpers, with real syntax and usage notes.
Embedding Semantic MediaWiki: Techniques for Enhanced Accessibility
Making SMW data visible where readers are: factbox settings, inline queries in article layout, accessible tables and navigation-oriented result formats.