/docs Directory README

The 'docs' directory contain various text files that should help you understand the most important parts of the code of MediaWiki. More in-depth documentation can be found at:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Code
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_hub

API documentation is automatically generated and updated daily at:

https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/

You can get a fresh version using 'make doc' or mwdocgen.php in the ../maintenance/ directory.

For end users, most of the documentation is located online at:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents

Documentation for MediaWiki site administrators is at:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Contents