MediaWiki and Databases

So I'm working for a Material Science research group for a summer job, and they want me to set up a wiki to centralize data and experiment results. I've taken exactly one Java class.

So, I set up a MediaWiki site, but they want to connect the data together, along with citations.

For example, Silicon has two properties they're interested in, "hole mobility" and "electron mobility". So on the wiki article on Silicon, they want to list Silicon's hole mobility and the electron mobility, but on the page for electron mobility, we want a list of many different elements' hole mobilities. When they update the hole mobility on the Silicon page, they want the number on the Hole mobility page to update as well. They will also want a citation attached to each data bit, so they'll know what circumstances and where that information came from

I believe that this will require a database system, and was wondering if you guys could point me in the right direction. I've just started to learn MySQL, and well frankly and slightly overwhelmed. Is MySQL too powerful of a language for this? Is there a simpler way to implement website-wide changes?

Thanks yall.

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There is no explicit ``intermediate'' label, but anyone who spends any time at all here will realise it. I don't see why we should cater to morons who can't even be bothered to figure out what's going on. We aren't here for your benefit.
Go take your bullshit to /pr/ if you want a programming community aimed at the kindergarten crowd.

My question is relevant and aimed at people who have a passing knowledge of many languages.
How the fuck would you know? Your comments make plain that you don't know shit about anything. You aren't in any position to judge what is and isn't programming-related, and ``hay guys what wiki software should I use'' isn't.