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MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.

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Large commit — Merge "[FileBackend] Added support for concurre...

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In commit 6e49b1a9 by Tim Starling on 2012-05-14 (8 days ago)

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Large commit — Localisation updates from http://translatewiki....

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In commit 8c5402e9 by Translation updater bot on 2012-05-12 (10 days ago)

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Large commit — Remove mixed script messages.

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In commit 833f28c8 by Siebrand Mazeland on 2012-05-12 (10 days ago)

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Large commit — Merge "Localisation updates from http://transla...

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In commit 2f136808 by Sam Reed (Using name ‘Reedy’) on 2012-05-11 (10 days ago)

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Large commit — Localisation updates from http://translatewiki....

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