News by Jeroen De Dauw. Updated on October 6, 2025
Approval Workflows for MediaWiki
Increase trust in your wiki content via approval workflows. We are proud to announce a new approval extension for MediaWiki and new approvals configuration capabilities in the ProWiki Admin Panel. Discover how to get started with quality control in your wiki.
Page Approvals, A New MediaWiki Extension
We designed Page Approvals for a large enterprise in a regulated industry with strict compliance needs. It adds lightweight approvals that signal review status of each page while keeping editing simple. You can use it for free as we open sourced the extension.
Page Approvals differs from existing approval extensions in some key manners. It marks pages as "pending approval" as soon as any displayed content changes. This includes changes to embedded content such as templates, parser functions, and Semantic MediaWiki queries. This is an important difference compared to extensions such as Approved Revs and Flagged Revisions, which only track changes to the wikitext, thus allowing for radical content changes of approved pages without requiring re-approval.
Another notable difference is that your editors can continue to make changes to pages while they are pending approval. Their changes are always published immediately, but the page remains marked as "pending approval" until an approver reviews the changes.
Administrators can assign users as approvers for categories from within the wiki. Each approver can view which pages assigned to them are pending approval via their "Pending Approvals" page.
Find the full feature list and setup instructions in the Page Approvals documentation.
New Approval Options On ProWiki
Page Approvals is now available on ProWiki alongside Approved Revs. You can use either extension or combine them.
You can choose which approval extension to enable and manage their configuration via the new dedicated Approvals tab in the Admin Panel.
These new approval options compliment existing MediaWiki moderation tools like page protection, abuse filters, permissions, and reversible edits, giving you plenty of options to manage quality control in your wiki in a manner that suits your team or organization's protocols.