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MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, and other projects. It's designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.

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Updated 21 Aug 2008 08:26 UTC

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about 1 year ago Avatar
the great wiki

    by epe

Mediawiki is definitely the greatest Wiki out there - counted by the number of Wikis on the web, by the amount of content available on different WikiMedia Projects and by the huge traffic they have.
I have been using MediaWiki for my own projects and it's been running well. WikiSPAM happens from time to time, there is AntiSpam extensions, although they could be easier to install.
MediaWiki is most suited for sites which try to collect ... [More] content and build a knowledge-base similar to wikipedia.
If you need a wiki for project/corporate use, choose one, that has usergroups and permissions integrated. This is possible somehow, but not a priority for Mediawiki developers. [Less]

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The Wiki

  by huji

MediaWiki is the leading wiki engine in the world, and many other wiki engines are written under the influence of standards initiatted by MediaWiki.

Unlike wishcow, I think with the recent changes to the MediaWiki core, and addition of WYSIWYG extensions (and a lot more exntesions), MediaWiki is still far beyond its competitors.

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    MediaWiki 1.13.0 released

    Posted 7 days ago by Tim Starling

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    MediaWiki 1.13.0 is now available.

    MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model
    with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is
    always ... [More] kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on
    Wikipedia. MediaWiki 1.13.0 is our latest snapshot release, based on
    the development code from three weeks ago, with several bugfixes applied.

    Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.12.0:

    * 59,000 new localised text messages have been added, taking the total
    to 266,000, spread across 281 languages
    * New special pages: FileDuplicateSearch, ListGroupRights
    * Special:UserRights and Special:SpecialPages have been redesigned
    * More options on Special:Recentchangeslinked and Special:WhatLinksHere
    * New parser functions: PAGESINCATEGORY, PAGESIZE
    * Can hide categories with __HIDDENCAT__
    * Friendlier behaviour for users who click a red link but can't edit
    * Image redirects are now enabled by default
    * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions ($wgEnableMWSuggest)
    * Search results show image thumbnails
    * The search box in the MonoBook sidebar can be moved up by editing
    [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
    * Double redirects created by a page move can be fixed automatically

    Changes since release candidate MediaWiki 1.13.0rc2:

    * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
    * Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given
    for the
    minor edit and watch labels on the edit page.
    * Updated Chinese simplified/traditional conversion tables

    Full release notes:
    http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

    **********************************************************************
    Download:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.0.tar.gz

    Patch to previous version (1.13.0rc2)
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.0.patch.gz

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    Public keys:
    https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

    SHA-1 checksums:
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    Release candidate MediaWiki 1.13.0rc2

    Posted 11 days ago by Tim Starling

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    A second release candidate for MediaWiki 1.13 is now available. Please
    try it
    out and tell us if it works for you. This is a beta release and should
    be used with ... [More] care.

    Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.13.0rc1:
    * Removed $wgForwardSearchUrl
    * Added magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ to suppress the redirect fixer
    * Fixed bugs 14907, 14966, 14987, 13376, 14904, 15035 and 14944.

    Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.12.0:

    * New special pages: FileDuplicateSearch, ListGroupRights
    * Special:UserRights and Special:SpecialPages have been redesigned
    * More options on Special:Recentchangeslinked and Special:WhatLinksHere
    * New parser functions: PAGESINCATEGORY, PAGESIZE
    * Can hide categories with __HIDDENCAT__
    * Friendlier behaviour for users who click a red link but can't edit
    * Image redirects are now enabled by default
    * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions ($wgEnableMWSuggest)
    * Search results show image thumbnails
    * The search box in the MonoBook sidebar can be moved up by editing
    [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
    * Double redirects created by a page move can be fixed automatically

    Full release notes:
    http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_0RC2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

    Download:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.0rc2.tar.gz

    GPG signatures:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.0rc2.tar.gz.sig

    Public keys:
    https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

    SHA-1 checksums:
    20fa379f70f85b3f2bd72cb1d7eb06dd4cbd2846 mediawiki-1.13.0rc2.tar.gz

    MD-5 checksums:
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    Release candidate MediaWiki 1.13.0rc1

    Posted 28 days ago by Tim Starling

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    A release candidate for MediaWiki 1.13 is now available. Please try it
    out and tell us if it works for you. This is a beta release and is not
    recommended for use in a production ... [More] environment (except if you're
    really clever like us).

    Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.12.0:

    * New special pages: FileDuplicateSearch, ListGroupRights
    * Special:UserRights and Special:SpecialPages have been redesigned
    * More options on Special:Recentchangeslinked and Special:WhatLinksHere
    * New parser functions: PAGESINCATEGORY, PAGESIZE
    * Can hide categories with __HIDDENCAT__
    * Friendlier behaviour for users who click a red link but can't edit
    * Image redirects are now enabled by default
    * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions ($wgEnableMWSuggest)
    * Search results show image thumbnails
    * The search box in the MonoBook sidebar can be moved up by editing
    [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
    * Double redirects created by a page move can be fixed automatically

    Full release notes:
    http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_0RC1/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

    Download:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.0rc1.tar.gz

    GPG signatures:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.0rc1.tar.gz.sig

    Public keys:
    https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

    SHA-1 checksums:
    be9a2645ea38d074b05a726e5ac2f3699ab482f8 mediawiki-1.13.0rc1.tar.gz

    MD-5 checksums:
    042a8662d2fcce0e8c5a3a5c17ce6d59 mediawiki-1.13.0rc1.tar.gz

    Before asking for help, try the FAQ:
    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ

    Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
    (Please subscribe to receive announcements of security updates.)
    http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

    Wiki admin help mailing list:
    http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

    Bug report system:
    http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

    Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
    #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net

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    Multiple security vulnerabilties in MediaWikiextensions

    Posted 2 months ago by Tim Starling

    The following extensions had cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities:
    * geo
    * MetavidWiki
    * wikihiero

    These vulnerabilities are exploitable even if the extensions are
    disabled. If you have any of these extensions ... [More] installed, please update
    them immediately.

    Many shared hosting services have the php.ini setting "register_globals"
    enabled, despite the fact that it is known to be detrimental to security.

    A new automated vulnerability scanner has found a large number of
    security vulnerabilities in MediaWiki extensions, when register_globals
    is enabled. Unless you are sure you have register_globals disabled, the
    following extensions should be immediately updated:

    Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities:
    * Call
    * ChangeAuthor
    * EditOwn
    * SignDocument
    * TemplateLink
    * WatchSubpages
    * WhoIsWatching
    * php/ext/MediaWiki

    Arbitrary script inclusion vulnerabilities:
    * CategoryIntersection
    * Makebot
    * PasswordReset
    * regexBlock
    * SemanticCalendar
    * SemanticForms
    * SemanticMediaWiki
    * SocialProfile
    * SpamRegex
    * StalePages
    * TodoTasks
    * WhiteList
    * Wikidata

    All these extensions are vulnerable regardless of whether they are
    enabled in LocalSettings.php. They only need to be installed, with their
    installation directory accessible from the public internet.

    Downloads in .tar.gz form for all these MediaWiki extensions are
    available from:
    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor

    Or using a subversion client from:
    http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions [Less]

    MediaWiki 1.12.0 released

    Posted 5 months ago by Brion Vibber

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    No problems reported with 1.12.0rc1, so here's the final release. Enjoy!

    Full release ... [More] notes:
    http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_12_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

    Download:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.0.tar.gz

    GPG signature:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.0.tar.gz.sig

    SHA-1 checksum:
    48bf1877f60c317cbe93c072187dfe9c1aa3b857 mediawiki-1.12.0.tar.gz

    MD-5 checksum:
    MD5 (mediawiki-1.12.0.tar.gz) = 117a1360f440883a51f0ebca32906ea0

    Before asking for help, try the FAQ:
    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ

    Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
    (Please subscribe to receive announcements of security updates.)
    http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

    Wiki admin help mailing list:
    http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

    Bug report system:
    http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

    Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
    #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net

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