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By Tim Starling, January 2006.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- API
+ Database layout
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-For a database API reference, please see the auto-generated
-documentation:
+For information about the MediaWiki database layout, such as a
+description of the tables and their contents, please see:
+ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Database_layout
+ http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/maintenance/tables.sql?view=markup
+
-http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/doc/MediaWiki/Database.html
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ API
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
To make a read query, something like this usually suffices: