README

   1 For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files
   2 RELEASE-NOTES, INSTALL, and UPGRADE.
   3
   4 == MediaWiki ==
   5
   6 MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org/] and the
   7 other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an
   8 excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using
   9 multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 100K+ requests per second range
  10 as of January 2012).
  11
  12 While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own"
  13 local documentation, and some aspects of configuration may seem overcomplicated
  14 because MediaWiki is primarily targeted as an in-house tool.
  15
  16 The MediaWiki software was written by:
  17 * Lee Daniel Crocker
  18 * Magnus Manske
  19 * Jan Hidders
  20 * Brion Vibber
  21 * Axel Boldt
  22 * Geoffrey T. Dairiki
  23 * Tomasz Wegrzanowski
  24 * Erik Moeller
  25 * Tim Starling
  26 * Gabriel Wicke
  27 * Antoine Musso
  28 * Evan Prodromou
  29 * Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
  30 * Niklas Laxström
  31 * Domas Mituzas
  32 * Rob Church
  33 * Jens Frank
  34 * Yuri Astrakhan
  35 * Aryeh Gregor
  36 * Aaron Schulz
  37 * Andrew Garrett
  38 * Raimond Spekking
  39 * Alexandre Emsenhuber
  40 * Siebrand Mazeland
  41 * Chad Horohoe
  42 * Roan Kattouw
  43 * Trevor Pascal
  44 * Bryan Tong Minh
  45 * Sam Reed
  46 * Victor Vasiliev
  47 * Rotem Liss
  48 * Platonides
  49 * Antoine Musso
  50 * Several others (view CREDITS for a more complete list)
  51
  52 The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed under the
  53 terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (see
  54 http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later
  55 versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same or a
  56 compatible license. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or
  57 variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins for
  58 details.
  59
  60 The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software.
  61
  62 Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are also
  63 released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of users
  64 under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof.
  65
  66 MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod,
  67 http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/ which has the following license:
  68
  69         'This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
  70         License. To view a copy of this license, visit
  71         http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter
  72         to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way,
  73         Stanford, California 94305, USA.'
  74
  75 MediaWiki use Creative Commons license marks to points to their online
  76 licenses. This content is trademarked and used under a specific license
  77 available at http://creativecommons.org/policies#trademark
  78 The restricted content is:
  79
  80 * skins/common/images/cc-by-nc-sa.png
  81 * skins/common/images/cc-by-sa.png
  82
  83 Many thanks to the Wikimedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
  84
  85 The official website for MediaWiki is located at:
  86
  87         http://www.mediawiki.org/
  88
  89 The code is currently maintained in a Git repository at
  90 gerrit.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git for details.
  91
  92 Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
  93
  94 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
  95
  96 Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
  97
  98 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
  99 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 100 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development
 101
 102 Extensions are listed at:
 103
 104 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions
 105
 106 If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly
 107 recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
 108
 109 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 110
 111 The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for announcements
 112 of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
 113
 114 A higher volume support mailing list can be found at:
 115
 116 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 117
 118 Developer discussion takes place at:
 119
 120 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
 121
 122 There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net,
 123 and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com.