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- 2008-11-11
- For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files
- RELEASE-NOTES, INSTALL, and UPGRADE.
- == MediaWiki ==
- 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 using
- multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 60000+ requests per second range
- as of November 2008).
- 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.
- The MediaWiki software was written by:
- * Lee Daniel Crocker
- * Magnus Manske
- * Jan Hidders
- * Brion Vibber
- * Axel Boldt
- * Geoffrey T. Dairiki
- * Tomasz Wegrzanowski
- * Erik Moeller
- * Tim Starling
- * Gabriel Wicke
- * Ashar Voultoiz
- * Evan Prodromou
- * Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
- * Niklas Laxström
- * Domas Mituzas
- * Rob Church
- * Jens Frank
- * Yuri Astrakhan
- * Aryeh Gregor
- * Aaron Schulz
- * Several others (view CREDITS for a more complete list)
- The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed under the
- terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later[1] (see
- http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later
- versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same or a
- compatible license. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or
- variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins for
- details.
- The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software.
- [1] Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are also
- released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of users
- under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof.
- [2] MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod,
- http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/
- which has the following license:
- 'This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
- License. To view a copy of this license, visit
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter
- to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way,
- Stanford, California 94305, USA.'
- Many thanks to the Wikimedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
- The official website for MediaWiki is located at:
- http://www.mediawiki.org/
- The code is currently maintained in a Subversion repository at
- svn.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion for details.
- Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
- Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development
- Extensions are listed at:
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions
- If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly
- recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
- https://lists.wikimedia.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.
- A higher volume support mailing list can be found at:
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
- Developer discussion takes place at:
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
- There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net,
- and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com.
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