GuidedTour

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
GuidedTour; Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page, Page action
Description	Provide popup guided tour on wiki pages, and/or microsurveys.
Author(s)	Munaf Assaf, Terry Chay, Matt Flaschen, Pau Giner, Ori Livneh, Rob Moen, S Page, Sam Smith, Moiz Syed, Luke Welling
Latest version	Continuous updates
MediaWiki	1.32+
PHP	5.4+
	Hooks used BeforePageDisplay; MakeGlobalVariablesScript; RedirectSpecialArticleRedirectParams; ResourceLoaderRegisterModules;
Licence	Apache License 2.0
Download	Download extension ; Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub); Gerrit code review; Git commit log; Download source tarball;
	Internet Explorer compatibility: none for 6, partial for 7.
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

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The GuidedTour extension provides a framework for creating "guided tours," or interactive tutorials for MediaWiki features. Tours typically walk a user through some standard workflow (like editing an article or uploading an image) and are implemented as a series of dialog boxes that tell the user where to click and what to do next.

Tours are backed by JavaScript and PHP code that can monitor the user's progress, check their understanding, and offer advice and encouragement. Guided tours are an effective means for breaking down complex tasks into a series of simple, discrete sub-tasks, and for giving the user the experience and confidence needed to repeat the workflow for similar tasks in the future. Tours may also be used to implement interactive surveys .

GuidedTour was developed by the (former) Growth team. It is partly based on Optimize.ly's Guiders library. GuidedTour originally started at WMF Tech Days 2012 .

Note that there are some performance concerns with using this extension.

Extension:GuidedTour - MediaWiki