1 For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files
2 RELEASE-NOTES, INSTALL, and UPGRADE.
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
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.
16 The MediaWiki software was written by:
29 * Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
39 * Alexandre Emsenhuber
49 * Many others (view CREDITS for a more complete list)
51 The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed under the
52 terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (see
53 http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later
54 versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same or a
55 compatible license. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or
56 variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins for
59 The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software.
61 Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are also
62 released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of users
63 under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof.
65 MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod,
66 http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/ which has the following license:
68 'This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
69 License. To view a copy of this license, visit
70 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter
71 to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way,
72 Stanford, California 94305, USA.'
74 MediaWiki use Creative Commons license marks to points to their online
75 licenses. This content is trademarked and used under a specific license
76 available at http://creativecommons.org/policies#trademark
77 The restricted content is:
79 * skins/common/images/cc-by-nc-sa.png
80 * skins/common/images/cc-by-sa.png
82 Many thanks to the Wikimedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
84 The official website for MediaWiki is located at:
86 http://www.mediawiki.org/
88 The code is currently maintained in a Git repository at
89 gerrit.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git for details.
91 Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
93 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
95 Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
97 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
98 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
99 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development
101 Extensions are listed at:
103 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions
105 If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly
106 recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
108 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
110 The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for announcements
111 of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
113 A higher volume support mailing list can be found at:
115 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
117 Developer discussion takes place at:
119 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
121 There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net,
122 and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com.
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