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Why “Enterprise‑grade” MediaWiki Is Not Just a Fancy Wiki Imagine your company's knowledge base as the engine room of a massive ship. If the engine sputters, the whole crew feels the lag. MediaWiki can be that engine, but only if you give it the right fuel, oil,

What Cargo Brings to a MediaWiki Installation When you first glance at a MediaWiki site, the pages look like ordinary wiki articles – that is the point. Yet behind the scenes you often need a way to treat the content as structured data without turning the whole thing into a full‑

Why Kartographer Matters in a MediaWiki World If you’ve ever scrolled through a Wikipedia entry and clicked a tiny globe icon, you’ve already seen Kartographer at work. The extension swaps a static coordinate link for a sleek, zoom‑able map that lives right on the page. No iframes,

A custom skin can be a quiet bragging‑right, a branding tool, and—if you’re feeling adventurous—a low‑key way to dip your toes into MediaWiki’s PHP‑heavy guts without drowning

Why Scribunto matters (and why you might be curious right now)

In plain English, a hook is a tiny “call‑out” point baked into MediaWiki’s core

Why data entry in a wiki can feel like a hamster wheel Ever opened a MediaWiki and thought, “There’s got to be a smoother way to get tables filled out?” You’re not alone. In many intranets the same page layouts pop up again and again—product sheets, incident

The Cite extension makes that possible, but like any handy tool it works best when you know a few tricks, avoid common snags, and give it a little TLC

Why “Advanced” Matters