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How to Set Up CirrusSearch (Elasticsearch) for MediaWiki: Installation, Configuration, and Performance Tuning

Overview CirrusSearch replaces MediaWiki’s built‑in MySQL search with a fast, full‑text engine powered by Elasticsearch. The guide walks through the required software, extension installation, basic configuration, index creation and a few tuning tips that keep a medium‑size wiki responsive. Prerequisites * MediaWiki ≥ 1.39 (the guide targets

How to Configure MediaWiki to Use Elasticsearch for Faster Search

How to Configure MediaWiki to Use Elasticsearch for Faster Search MediaWiki ships with a simple, database‑based search engine that works well for small wikis. As a wiki grows – in page count, traffic, or content complexity – the native search can become a bottleneck. Elasticsearch, a Lucene‑based distributed search engine,

Optimizing MediaWiki for Enterprise Deployment

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,

Leveraging the Cargo Extension in MediaWiki for Database Functionality

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‑

Building Interactive Maps with MediaWikis Kartographer Extension

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,

Setting Up Custom Skins in MediaWiki: A Developer's Guide

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

Using Scribunto Extension for Lua Scripting in MediaWiki

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

Introduction to MediaWiki Hooks for Custom Extensions

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

Streamlining Data Entry in MediaWiki with the Page Forms Extension

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

Advanced MediaWiki Caching Strategies for High-Traffic Sites

Why caching is the lifeblood of a bustling wiki Imagine a downtown coffee shop at 8 am on a Monday – the line snakes around the block, the barista is frantically grinding beans, and the espresso machine is humming nonstop. That’s what a popular MediaWiki installation feels like during a