-2003-04-14
-
-This is the "Phase III" codebase for the Wikipedia project
-(http://www.wikipedia.org). It is possibly usable as a
-general-purpose wiki, but it was not intended as such and
-there is little or no support available for using it as such
-from the developers, who are busy full time supporting the
-Wikipedia project. There are many good general-purpose Wikis
-in the world. I personally recommend UseMod
-(http://www.usemod.com/).
-
-The code as a whole is Copyright 2002,2003 by
-Lee Daniel Crocker, Magnus Manske, Jan Hidders, Brion Vibber,
-Axel Boldt, Geoffrey T. Dairiki, Tomasz Wegrzanowski,
-Erik Moeller and others, licensed under the terms of the
-GNU General Public License, version 2 (see
-http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and
-later versions of the code will also be considered free
-software licensed under the same terms.
-
-Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker are also
-released into the public domain, wich does not impair the
-obligations of users under the GPL for use of the whole code
-or other sections thereof.
+2003-11-08
+
+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. However, it is generally harder to install. Be
+sure to follow the INSTALL document closely. Installation on
+a Microsoft Windows system is not recommended, however it is
+possible. Documentation for installation on Windows may be
+found at:
+
+ http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
+
+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
+* Several others
+
+These developers hold the copyright to this work, and it is
+licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
+version 2 (see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative
+works and later versions of the code will also be considered
+free software licensed under the same terms.
+
+The newly-founded Wikimedia Foundation currently has no
+legal rights to the software, although copyright may be
+assigned to it at a later date. Wikimedia has not funded
+any of the development work.
+
+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.
Many thanks to the Wikipedia regulars for testing and
suggestions.
http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net
-The code is written in PHP. It was tested mainly on version
-4.06, but it is known to run in later versions. It requires
-MySQL 3.23 or later, and PHP-MySQL. It is now running with
-PHP 4.2.2 and MySQL 3.23.49 at http://www.wikipedia.org .
-The code was written on and for Linux, and no attempt has
-been made to make it portable to other OSs, though it may
-happen to run on some. The math support in particular has
-run-time dependencies on things like TeTeX and GhostScript
-that are generally found in Linux but not other OSs.
+Documentation and discussion on new features may be found
+at:
+
+ http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_development
+
+If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software,
+it is highly recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-l:
+
+ http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+
+The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily
+for announcements of new versions, bug fixes, and security
+issues.
+
+PHP
+
+The code is written in PHP. Version 4.3.2 or higher is
+recommended. There are known issues with early 4.2.x
+releases.
+
+MySQL
+
+MediaWiki requires MySQL 3.23 or later, and PHP-MySQL.
+Version 4.0 or later is strongly recommended
--- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
+Operating system
+The code was written on and for Linux, and no attempt
+has been made to make it portable to other OSs. The
+math support in particular has run-time dependencies on
+things like TeTeX and GhostScript that are generally
+found in Linux but not other OSs. However, we have had
+reports of successful installation on Windows, albeit
+without TeX support.
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