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 (Wikipedia peaks in the 1000+ requests per second range
+multiple servers (Wikipedia peaks in the 2500+ requests per second range
as of June 2005).
While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own"
* Ashar Voultoiz
* Evan Prodromou
* Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
+ * Niklas Laxström
* Several others
These developers hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed under the
Many thanks to the Wikipedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
+The official website for mediawiki is located at:
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/
+
The code is currently maintained at SourceForge under the project "wikipedia",
module name "phase3". You can view the code in CVS there:
- http://www.mediawiki.org/
+ http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/
Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system: