-2008-11-11
-
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 using
-multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 60000+ requests per second range
-as of November 2008).
+multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 100K+ requests per second range
+as of January 2012).
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
* Erik Moeller
* Tim Starling
* Gabriel Wicke
-* Ashar Voultoiz
+* Antoine Musso
* Evan Prodromou
* Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
* Niklas Laxström
* Trevor Pascal
* Bryan Tong Minh
* Sam Reed
-* Several others (view CREDITS for a more complete list)
+* Victor Vasiliev
+* Rotem Liss
+* Platonides
+* Many others (view CREDITS for a more complete list)
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 (see
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.
+The code is currently maintained in a Git repository at
+gerrit.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git for details.
Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system: