-2004-08-12
+2006-04-05
-MediaWiki
----------
+For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files RELEASE-NOTES,
+INSTALL, and UPGRADE.
-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 (Wikipedia
-peaks at 380 requests per second as of August 2004). 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:
+== MediaWiki ==
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
+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 using
+multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 5000+ requests per second range
+as of November 2005).
+While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own"
+local documentation, and some aspects of configuration may seem overcomplicated
+because MediaWiki is primarily targeted as an in-house tool.
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
- * Ashar Voultoiz
- * Evan Prodromou
- * 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.
+* Lee Daniel Crocker
+* Magnus Manske
+* Jan Hidders
+* Brion Vibber
+* Axel Boldt
+* Geoffrey T. Dairiki
+* Tomasz Wegrzanowski
+* Erik Moeller
+* Tim Starling
+* Gabriel Wicke
+* Ashar Voultoiz
+* Evan Prodromou
+* Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
+* Niklas Laxström
+* Domas Mituzas
+* Rob Church
+* Jens Frank
+* Several others
+
+The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later[1]
+(see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later
+versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same
+terms. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or
+variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins
+for details.
+
+The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software.
+
+[1] 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.
+
+[2] MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod,
+ http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/
+ which has the following license:
+
+ 'This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
+ License. To view a copy of this license, visit
+ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter
+ to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way,
+ Stanford, California 94305, USA.'
+
+Many thanks to the Wikimedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
+
+The official website for mediawiki is located at:
+
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/
+
+The code is currently maintained in a Subversion repository
+at svn.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion
+for details.
+
+Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
+
+ http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
-Many thanks to the Wikipedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
-
-The code is currently maintained at Sourceforge under the project "wikipedia",
-module name "phase3". You can view the code in CVS there:
-
- http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net
+Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
-Please report bugs and make feature requests in our BugZilla system:
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development
- http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org
+Extensions are listed at:
-Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
+ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_extensions
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
- 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:
+recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for
announcements of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
+A higher volume support mailing list can be found at:
-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. Also, the Monobook skin currently does
-not work under the new PHP 5 (but you can use one of the older skins).
-
-MySQL
+ http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
-MediaWiki requires MySQL 3.23 or later, and PHP-MySQL. Version 4.0 or later is
-strongly recommended.
+Developer discussion takes place at:
-Operating system
+ http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
-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.
+There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on
+irc.freenode.net, and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com.
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