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Note: the name "MediaWiki" is often confused with several other, similar, names; please see the glossary for an explanation of these.
MediaWiki is wiki software, released under the GPL, that is used by Wikimedia projects and others. It is an implementation of a wiki, a content pool that anyone can freely edit. It is developed using MediaZilla (our version of BugZilla).
MediaWiki 1.18 is the latest stable version, and is recommended for third-party users. Those running their own servers should upgrade for security reasons. Special:Version shows what version a site is running. You can play around in the local Sandbox to see this version in action.
MediaWiki 1.18 is available for download from MediaWiki.org, a site that is also responsible for the documentation of the software. MediaWiki 1.19wmf1 (r112130) is currently running on all Wikimedia sites. Third-party users should probably not run the alpha/beta versions of MediaWiki on publicly accessible servers at this time.
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[edit] About
- Introduction
- Handbook learn how to use mediawiki
Technical developers section
- Mailing lists, especially wikitech.
- IRC channel
[edit] Miscellaneous
- MediaWiki features
- Installation and configuration
- MediaWiki Tutorial with screenshots: how to install and configure Mediawiki, how to change skins; how to add extensions
[edit] Technical
[edit] Versions
At the moment there is a current version maintained for at least one year after its release date, and the last legacy version still getting security fixes. Older versions are considered as insecure. Check out release notes for other versions or go directly to 1.10 - 1.11 - 1.12 - 1.13 - 1.14 - 1.15 - 1.16 - 1.17.
[edit] Wikimedia sites
- During the period 21-29 May 2004, all Wikimedia sites were upgraded to version 1.3.
- In December 2004 all Wikimedia sites were upgraded to version 1.4.
- In June 2005 Wikimedia sites were upgraded to version 1.5.
- In August 2005 Wikimedia sites were upgraded to version 1.6alpha.
- From April 2006 Wikimedia sites were using the continuous development version, it is called using the Subversion, which are using the version 1.19wmf1 (r112130).
[edit] Database dump
For downloadable dumps of Wikipedia's article database, see Wikipedia:Database download. For a description of the database format and fields, see database layout.
To create your own dump of a local MediaWiki site, you can use the dumpBackup.php script found in the maintenance directory of your MediaWiki installation tree.
An example invocation to a full backup might look like:
php maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full > full.xml
Command line options for dumpBackup.php are explained by running it with no parameters, i.e.
php maintenance/dumpBackup.php
However, there are some extra undocumented options in its source code.
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