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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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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    Version number incorrect in latest releases

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    The MediaWiki version number, $wgVersion in
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    and 1.13.2. So these releases will report themselves as being ... [More] 1.12.0
    and 1.13.1 respectively, in [[Special:Version]] and other places. A
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    MediaWiki 1.13.2, 1.12.1 security update

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    injection and thus possible user account ... [More] compromise. The vulnerability
    is only present when $wgUseSiteCss is turned on, which is the
    default. Versions 1.11 and earlier are NOT vulnerable, nor is
    development branch later than July 28, 2008.

    Also, there was the potential for a subtle user error while editing
    $wgGroupPermissions in LocalSettings.php to cause all restrictions to
    be disabled. This has been rectified.

    Full release notes:
    http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
    http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_12_1/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

    See below for downloads.

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    MEDIAWIKI 1.13.2
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    Download:
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    Patch to previous version (1.13.1), without interface text:
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    Interface text changes:
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    Patch to previous version (1.12.0), without interface text:
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    MediaWiki 1.13.1 released

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    MediaWiki 1.13.1 is now available. This is a bugfix release.

    Changes since 1.13.0:

    * (bug 15460) Fixed intermittent deadlock errors and poor concurrent
    performance for ... [More] installations without memcached.
    * (bug 13770) Fixed DOM module detection for installations with both dom
    and domxml.
    * (bug 15148) Fixed Special:BlockIP for PostgreSQL
    * Fixed SQLite support for installations without memcached.
    * Localisation updates, Achinese (ace) added.

    Full release notes:
    http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_1/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

    **********************************************************************
    Download:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.1.tar.gz

    Patch to previous version (1.13.0), without interface text:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.1.patch.gz
    Interface text changes:
    http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-i18n-1.13.1.patch.gz

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    MediaWiki 1.13.0 released

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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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    Release candidate MediaWiki 1.13.0rc2

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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

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Who uses MediaWiki?

olc skavoovie Tim Kosse hangy nikerabbit qwstor martinkunev russenreaktor cormander kristian_paul Serge K. Keller schwern

Who contributes to MediaWiki?

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