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MediaWiki is the server software that runs Wikipedia and its sister wiki sites. See MediaWiki or http://www.mediawiki.org ;Current status: You can download the latest copy of the m:MediaWiki package from Sourceforge at the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ MediaWiki Project page]. == History == Wikipedia and its sister Wikimedia projects run on the same GNU General Public License-ed free software, called MediaWiki or Software Phase III (see m:MediaWiki). It was switched from UseModWiki software ("Phase I") to new software, written especially for Wikipedia using the PHP programming language, on January 25, 2002 ("Phase II"); in June 2002 it was replaced by what is now called MediaWiki. user:Magnus Manske was the original author of the software, which is written in PHP and uses an underlying MySQL relational database. The software is released under the GNU General Public License. Other programmers are ''strongly'' urged to get involved. ===Change from Phase II to Phase III=== On Saturday, July 20, 2002, Wikipedia moved to a new high-capacity server and new, hopefully more efficient, Wikipedia:PHP_script base. The new software was designed to look and behave as similarly to the previous phase II software as possible, but a few new features and changes should be noted: * A whole new system for uploading and using images to illustrate articles * Search function now indexes 2- and 3-letter words * New side-by-side diffs of article changes * "Floating" sidebar option for some modern web browsers * A few minor changes to wikitext syntax (see wikipedia:How to edit a page) * Since anonymous users, while not having user pages, still have user contributions pages, their IP numbers in lists such as Special:Recentchanges and article histories link to their contributions * Support for maths formulae using Wikipedia:TeX markup * Better support for auto-posting "bots" * A new static page caching system has greatly reduced system load * The database server and the page server now run on separate machines The Phase III software is robust, and under active development. Many more features have been, and are expected to be, added to the Phase III software, together with bug fixes and improvements in stability. You are encouraged to submit Wikipedia:Bug reports. ==Related topics== Information and discussion about this software can be found on the following pages: *Wikipedia:Announcements#Software status *Wikipedia:Mailing lists mailing list (technical discussions regarding the development) *m:MediaWiki *[http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ Sourceforge: MediaWiki Project page] *[http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/ MediaWiki Bug reports and feature requests] *m:Help:Contents *Wikipedia:Village Pump (occasional discussions of features and bugs) *m:Sites using MediaWiki *Wikipedia:PHP script FAQ *Wikipedia:PHP script automatic wikification (former feature) *m:How to become a Wikipedia hacker (partial installation advice) ==See also== *Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace Wikipedia la:Wikipedia:MediaWiki minnan:Wikipedia:MediaWiki simple:MediaWiki th:วิกิพีเดีย:มีเดียวิกิ zh-cn:Wikipedia:MediaWiki zh-tw:Wikipedia:PHP 腳本

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''See also Wikipedia talk:Software Phase III''. === License? === (2002/02/06) A question suddenly occurred to me that should have been brought up earlier. How is the PHP script licensed, exactly? The [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ Sourceforge project page] ''says'' GPL, but the actual code contains no reference to licensing. Magnus, am I to assume that this is a simple error of omission? If so, it should be corrected immediately; a [http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt copy of the GPL] should be included and notices to that effect put into all the source files. If we are using the GPL, I agree that my contributions be licensed in accordance with it. If not, let me know! --user:Brion VIBBER :Yes, it is GPL. Maybe the URL of the GPL in wiki.phtml would be enough? --user:Magnus Manske ::No, it's not enough. We need an actual copy of the GPL in the package, and we need copyright statements at the top of every file. You can pick any GNU program as a template. user:AxelBoldt ---- ''Called the PHP script''? Let's give this script a proper name! --user:Stephen Gilbert :How about ''Inkwell'' or ''PHPedia'' for starters? --user:MarkReid ::Actually, ''Inkwell'' is already taken by Apple: http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/inkwell.html --User:Bdesham :I thought it was already called "PediaWiki"... --user:Larry_Sanger ---- == Stable Version? == If there any stable release of Phase III available? I've downloaded the CVS Snapshot but there some Problems with the database. Or is Phase III for Beta-Testing only? :The CVS version of Phast III is running on this site and is considered stable. Maybe there are still some bugs in the database conversion/creation scripts, since we ran those only once. User:AxelBoldt 09:03 Sep 2, 2002 (PDT) ---- I'm interested in running a personal Wiki, to map my own thoughts and ideas. I'd like to use the Wikipedia software, as it's the one I'm most familiar with. Is this possible? I don't need to have it online or anything. Thanks.
-User:Tubby :Yes, certainly -- but be warned, it can be a little tricky to set up. If you have any questions or problems, feel free to sign up for the Wikipedia:Mailing lists. --User:Brion VIBBER 02:12 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC) :Where do I start? Can I download the software somewhere?
-User:Tubby See m:How to become a Wikipedia hacker for some tips. --User:Brion VIBBER 16:59 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC) ---- This page was moved to m:Wikipedia3. While a move to the meta makes sense, it seems that information was omitted and the page was poorly and somewhat inaccurately rewritten. For example, the new page claims that Wikipedia is the only project that uses the software; see Wikipedia:Projects using Wikipedia software (which has been removed from the new page). Also, have the developers started calling the script "Wikipedia3"? The most common name I've heard was "Phase III", with "PediaWiki" favoured by a minority of Wikipedians. Finally, this is a major page with many links to it; was this move discussed beforehand? -- User:Stephen Gilbert ---- is anyone else getting php errors? Is there a story on this? User:Graft I'm starting to hear more reports of congestion problems lately. I suspect that some server settings need to be expanded to accommodate greater traffic on the foreign-language wikis. --User:Lee Daniel Crocker I've been seeing PHP errors that don't immediately suggest congestion. It looked to me like somebody temporarily mislaid a PHP document used for config. - User:Khendon 15:59 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC) The error reported to me most recently was "can't load include file" because the system limit on number of open files was maxed out. That happens specifically when people access many of the foreign wikis at once, even if total congestion on the server is otherwise low. --User:Lee Daniel Crocker Ah, okay. I retract my naive comment then :-) - User:Khendon 16:18 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC) BTW Lee, last night I noticed the German, etc wikis weren't having the php files cached (no *_apc files), as the directory permissions didn't allow apache to write to them. I've chowned the 'w' directories to apache, and they all seem to be caching now. That may help, or hinder. Who knows. :) --User:Brion VIBBER 21:02 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC) ---- == List of wiki engines == Removed. See Wiki:WikiEngines for a list. == Move to meta == All these MediaWiki specific pages should be moved to metawiki. There is very little point in having a meta page about MediaWiki here, on metawiki and the other Wikimedia projects. We need to centralize our documentation efforts anyway. So if anything, there should be an encyclopedia article about MediaWiki here; no need for a meta page on it (a cross-wiki redirect will be needed). I'll move and merge this page and similar pages myself this weekend. We may even want to move pages like Wikipedia:How to edit a page but I'm not up to that right now. --User:Maveric149 : One problem is that meta is not very good for pages that need to be available in several languages. That's why I have avoided moving pages like Wikipedia:Sites using MediaWiki where translations already exist on other wikis.User:Eloquence 19:05, Aug 29, 2003 (UTC) ::Meta is ''supposed'' to be multilingual. --User:Brion VIBBER 19:47, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC) :::Exactly. And when other language versions of sister Wikimedia projects are started, then it will also make sense to move their MediaWiki-specific pages to meta. Otherwise there is going to be needless duplication (we need to have more project neutral documentation anyway for people who use MediaWiki outside of Wikimedia. --mav

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MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is a feature-rich wiki implementation, and is used to run Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects, as well as many other wikis. It is written in PHP and uses an underlying MySQL relational database management system. Its logo symbolizes how its markup language uses brackets ("\",\"") to link articles together, in contrast to CamelCase. MediaWiki is capable of interfacing with other, optional programs to improve performance and capabilities. Support for memcached, the Squid cache system, and TeX math rendering are all available in the current version. An extension system allows users to add their own features and program interfaces. == History == MediaWiki was originally written for Wikipedia by the German student and Wikipedia developer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske Magnus Manske]. The site previously used UseModWiki (aka "Phase I"), which used Perl, then switched to PHP with a new version ("Phase II") on January 25, 2002. The day is known within the Wikipedia community as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day Magnus Manske Day]. A further rewritten and improved version of the Phase II software was at one time known as "Phase III". It was renamed MediaWiki in recognition that the software was capable of supporting not only Wikipedia but also other projects, and that a more meaningful system of version numbers was needed. The software was named MediaWiki as a play on Wikimedia Foundation, the Wikipedia parent organization. The name is occasionally criticised for its similarity to "Wikimedia", which leads to confusion among people new to the project. ===Version 1.4=== MediaWiki 1.4 is the current stable version, released on March 20, 2005. Lead developer is now [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brion_Vibber Brion Vibber]. For version 1.4 the code has been cleaned up a bit, so that certain tasks are performed in half the time. The interface language can now be chosen by the user, making other language projects more accessible. There is also an improvement on the amount of hard disk storage used. Since MediaWiki 1.4 gzip is used to store text, which results in compression to about 15% of the original. MediaWiki 1.4 also supports "block-compressed revisions", which combines multiple revisions before compressing. This results in a greater space savings. However, block-compressed revisions are not currently fully compatible with the deletion and undeletion functions, so deletion of articles using such revisions is disabled. ===Future releases=== Features under development in the experimental version of MediaWiki include PostgreSQL support and a system to validate articles which are accurate and complete. The experimental MediaWiki 1.5 also includes a redesigned database schema, which will increase the speed of various operations like page moves and generating page history listings. ==Notable features== *Per-article discussion page *Watchlist ==See also== *GetWiki: a Fork (software). *List of content management systems *Comparison of content management systems ==External links== * [http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ MediaWiki on Sourceforge] * m:MediaWiki m:Help:Contents and m:Sites using MediaWiki on Wikimedia's meta-wiki site Open source content management systems Free software Wiki software MediaWiki simple:MediaWiki th:มีเดียวิกิ zh-min-nan:MediaWiki

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See also Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace. ==Name== Since when Wikipedia's engine is named MediaWiki? The article is confusing, saying that MediaWiki was written, and then it was renamed to MediaWiki...--User:Chealer 08:43, 2004 Nov 17 (UTC) ----------- Hello, first of all sorry if this doesn't go here... My aim is to create a web interface that holds a collaborative editor, so a text would be presented and you could enter the translation (the basic problem is being collaborative, that is, many people simultaneously editing). Maybe could be identificated users, but not necessarily. Recently I worked with a wiki for a student work and I suppose MediaWiki could be the technology I need, but it also fits with the CMS concept. I have searched by the web and I conclude those six could be good choices. Which one could suit me? -Plone -Silva -Mambo -OpenPHPNuke -OpenCMS -and of course, Mediawiki I see Mambo is very used, but also Mediawiki with all the wikimedia ; Plone and Silva are Zope-based and seem good, but maybe too powerful for my needs? (it's only a portal, the main problem is the workflow-simultaneous edit problem...) Seems also that OpenPHPNuke and OpenCMS are also very popular. Other suggestions? Some advices? Thanks in advance Jordi ----------- I read the article and still don't get a clear definition of what is MediaWiki and how it is related to the Wiki project. What is it? Is it the software behind Wikipedia and other Wikis? Is it a special type of program for special types of Wikis? I think the article lacks a clear summary definition on its first paragraph. User:Evallejr == 100% speedup?! == So something that took a finite amount of time before is now done instantly? User:WikianJim 00:00, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) :100% speedup means that it runs twice as fast. Speed is increased by 100%. -- User:Cyrius|User talk:Cyrius 00:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::Mathematics. Where x is the original speed, and P is the speedup in decimals (99% = .99, 23% = .23, 100% = 1, 500% = 5), x + Px = the current speed. User:Ambush Commander 23:43, May 26, 2005 (UTC) == Section editing: MediaWiki or Wikipedia? == A feature of Wikipedia is the ability to edit a section of an article, without having to open the entire article for editing. Is this a feature of MediaWiki, or is it specific for Wikipedia? :Its a feature of MediaWiki. User:83.100.168.41 13:14, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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