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2004-08-12
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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 (Wikipedia
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peaks at 380 requests per second as of August 2004). However, it is generally
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harder to install. Be sure to follow the INSTALL document closely.
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Installation on a Microsoft Windows system is not recommended, however it is
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possible. Documentation for installation on Windows may be found at:
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http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
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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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* Several others
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These developers hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed under the
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terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 (see
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http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later versions of
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the code will also be considered free software licensed under the same terms.
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The newly-founded Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the
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software, although copyright may be assigned to it at a later date. Wikimedia
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has not funded any of the development work.
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Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are also
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released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of users
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under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof.
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Many thanks to the Wikipedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
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The code is currently maintained at Sourceforge under the project "wikipedia",
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module name "phase3". You can view the code in CVS there:
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http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net
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Please report bugs and make feature requests in our BugZilla system:
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http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org
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Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
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http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_development
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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-l:
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http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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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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PHP
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The code is written in PHP. Version 4.3.2 or higher is recommended. There are
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known issues with early 4.2.x releases. Also, the Monobook skin currently does
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not work under the new PHP 5 (but you can use one of the older skins).
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MySQL
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MediaWiki requires MySQL 3.23 or later, and PHP-MySQL. Version 4.0 or later is
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strongly recommended.
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Operating system
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The code was written on and for Linux, and no attempt has been made to make it
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portable to other OSs. The math support in particular has run-time dependencies
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on things like TeTeX and GhostScript that are generally found in Linux but not
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other OSs. However, we have had reports of successful installation on Windows,
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albeit without TeX support.
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