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2004-08-12
2005-06-12
MediaWiki
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MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) and the
other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an
excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites (Wikipedia
peaks at 380 requests per second as of August 2004). However, it is generally
harder to install. Be sure to follow the INSTALL document closely.
excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using
multiple servers (Wikipedia peaks in the 1000+ requests per second range
as of June 2005).
Installation on a Microsoft Windows system is not recommended, however it is
possible. Documentation for installation on Windows may be found at:
While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own"
local documentation, and some aspects of configuration may seem overcomplicated
because MediaWiki is primarily targeted as an in-house tool.
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
See the files RELEASE-NOTES, INSTALL, and UPGRADE for details on system
requirements and installation procedure.
The MediaWiki software was written by:
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Many thanks to the Wikipedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
The code is currently maintained at Sourceforge under the project "wikipedia",
The code is currently maintained at SourceForge under the project "wikipedia",
module name "phase3". You can view the code in CVS there:
http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net
http://www.mediawiki.org/
Please report bugs and make feature requests in our BugZilla system:
Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_development
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_development
Documentation about the E-Mail notification can be found on:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif
If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly
recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-l:
recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for
announcements of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
PHP
The code is written in PHP. Version 4.3.2 or higher is recommended. There are
known issues with early 4.2.x releases. Also, the Monobook skin currently does
not work under the new PHP 5 (but you can use one of the older skins).
MySQL
MediaWiki requires MySQL 3.23 or later, and PHP-MySQL. Version 4.0 or later is
strongly recommended.
Operating system
The code was written on and for Linux, and no attempt has been made to make it
portable to other OSs. The math support in particular has run-time dependencies
on things like TeTeX and GhostScript that are generally found in Linux but not
other OSs. However, we have had reports of successful installation on Windows,
albeit without TeX support.
For installation and upgrade details, see the files RELEASE-NOTES, INSTALL,
and UPGRADE.