README

   1 2003-04-14
   2
   3 This is the "Phase III" codebase for the Wikipedia project
   4 (http://www.wikipedia.org). It is possibly usable as a
   5 general-purpose wiki, but it was not intended as such and
   6 there is little or no support available for using it as such
   7 from the developers, who are busy full time supporting the
   8 Wikipedia project. There are many good general-purpose Wikis
   9 in the world. I personally recommend UseMod
  10 (http://www.usemod.com/).
  11
  12 The code as a whole is Copyright 2002,2003 by
  13 Lee Daniel Crocker, Magnus Manske, Jan Hidders, Brion Vibber,
  14 Axel Boldt, Geoffrey T. Dairiki, Tomasz Wegrzanowski,
  15 Erik Moeller and others, licensed under the terms of the
  16 GNU General Public License, version 2 (see
  17 http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and
  18 later versions of the code will also be considered free
  19 software licensed under the same terms.
  20
  21 Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker are also
  22 released into the public domain, wich does not impair the
  23 obligations of users under the GPL for use of the whole code
  24 or other sections thereof.
  25
  26 Many thanks to the Wikipedia regulars for testing and
  27 suggestions.
  28
  29 The code is currently maintained at Sourceforge under the
  30 project "wikipedia", module name "phase3". You can view the
  31 code in CVS, report bugs and make feature requests there:
  32
  33   http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net
  34
  35 The code is written in PHP. It was tested mainly on version
  36 4.06, but it is known to run in later versions. It requires
  37 MySQL 3.23 or later, and PHP-MySQL. It is now running with
  38 PHP 4.2.2 and MySQL 3.23.49 at http://www.wikipedia.org .
  39 The code was written on and for Linux, and no attempt has
  40 been made to make it portable to other OSs, though it may
  41 happen to run on some.  The math support in particular has
  42 run-time dependencies on things like TeTeX and GhostScript
  43 that are generally found in Linux but not other OSs.
  44
  45 -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
  46