Mayank Tiwari

Using HTML5 web storage features(localStorage and sessionStorage)

Cookies are the old friends of web developer as they allow a lot of flexiblity due to the local storage of data, but with HTML5 we get two new client side storage features. localStorage and sessionStorage are two new HTML5 features, these allow the storage of data on the client end with allowing flexiblity of

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Enable Resource Loader Module to work with Mobile Frontend Extension

This tutorial is a solution of a basic problem which you may face when you want to go with MobileFrontend Extension for the first time. Mobile Frontend Extension is a good option to give your MediaWiki users a deal of data saving by providing lightweight interface on Mobile and tablets. This tutorial tells you how

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Enabling Ajax and using Ajax for Extension Development

The Ajax is very popular technology among web developers since it reduces the data usage the http cycle and improves the usablity of an application, the purpose is same in the extension development too, Where the actual operation remains the same but the implementation is tricky, So this tutorial is created to help nubes to

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Using Resource Loader to add JavaScript and CSS modules in Extension

The Mediawiki extensions are also a part of web development so they need JavaScript and CSS support too, for the same you can and you should use Resource Loader module. This tutorial demonstrate the use of ResourceLoader module and how to use that in extension development. We have already seen the basics of MediaWiki extensions

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MediaWiki Extension Localisation – use of i18n and language json files

This article is all about MediaWiki extension localisation, that means to display message in different languages according to the different wiki languages. The process is really easy and supported as a core feature of wiki so we aren’t required to do lot of customization. just little tweaks and we are good to go. In the

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MediaWiki Extension – How to develop custom extension in MediaWiki

This tutorial is about custom extension development in MediaWiki and works for any mediawiki version above 1.23. If you know MediaWiki and want to learn extension development Then you shall look into this simple tutorial which introduces you with file structure and basics fundamental of Extension development. This Article is a bit advance level and

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