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For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files RELEASE-NOTES,
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INSTALL, and UPGRADE.
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== MediaWiki ==
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MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org/] and the
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other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an
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excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using
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multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 50000+ requests per second range
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as of January 2008).
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While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own"
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local documentation, and some aspects of configuration may seem overcomplicated
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because MediaWiki is primarily targeted as an in-house tool.
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The MediaWiki software was written by:
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* Lee Daniel Crocker
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* Magnus Manske
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* Jan Hidders
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* Brion Vibber
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* Axel Boldt
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* Geoffrey T. Dairiki
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* Tomasz Wegrzanowski
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* Erik Moeller
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* Tim Starling
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* Gabriel Wicke
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* Ashar Voultoiz
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* Evan Prodromou
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* Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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* Niklas Laxström
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* Domas Mituzas
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* Rob Church
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* Jens Frank
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* Several others
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The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later[1]
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(see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later
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versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same
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terms. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or
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variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins
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for details.
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The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software.
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[1] Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are
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also released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of
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users under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof.
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[2] MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod,
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http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/
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which has the following license:
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'This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
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License. To view a copy of this license, visit
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter
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to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way,
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Stanford, California 94305, USA.'
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Many thanks to the Wikimedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
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The official website for MediaWiki is located at:
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http://www.mediawiki.org/
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The code is currently maintained in a Subversion repository
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at svn.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion
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for details.
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Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
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http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
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Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development
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Extensions are listed at:
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions
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If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly
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recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
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http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
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The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for
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announcements of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
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A higher volume support mailing list can be found at:
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http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Developer discussion takes place at:
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http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on
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irc.freenode.net, and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com.
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