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00001 For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files
00002 RELEASE-NOTES, INSTALL, and UPGRADE.
00003
00004 == MediaWiki ==
00005
00006 MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org/] and the
00007 other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an
00008 excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using
00009 multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 100K+ requests per second range
00010 as of January 2012).
00011
00012 While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own"
00013 local documentation, and some aspects of configuration may seem overcomplicated
00014 because MediaWiki is primarily targeted as an in-house tool.
00015
00016 The MediaWiki software was written by:
00017 * Lee Daniel Crocker
00018 * Magnus Manske
00019 * Jan Hidders
00020 * Brion Vibber
00021 * Axel Boldt
00022 * Geoffrey T. Dairiki
00023 * Tomasz Wegrzanowski
00024 * Erik Moeller
00025 * Tim Starling
00026 * Gabriel Wicke
00027 * Antoine Musso
00028 * Evan Prodromou
00029 * Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
00030 * Niklas Laxström
00031 * Domas Mituzas
00032 * Rob Church
00033 * Jens Frank
00034 * Yuri Astrakhan
00035 * Aryeh Gregor
00036 * Aaron Schulz
00037 * Andrew Garrett
00038 * Raimond Spekking
00039 * Alexandre Emsenhuber
00040 * Siebrand Mazeland
00041 * Chad Horohoe
00042 * Roan Kattouw
00043 * Trevor Pascal
00044 * Bryan Tong Minh
00045 * Sam Reed
00046 * Victor Vasiliev
00047 * Rotem Liss
00048 * Platonides
00049 * Many others (view CREDITS for a more complete list)
00050
00051 The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed under the
00052 terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (see
00053 http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later
00054 versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same or a
00055 compatible license. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or
00056 variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins for
00057 details.
00058
00059 The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software.
00060
00061 Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are also
00062 released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of users
00063 under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof.
00064
00065 MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod,
00066 http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/ which has the following license:
00067
00068         'This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
00069         License. To view a copy of this license, visit
00070         http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter
00071         to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way,
00072         Stanford, California 94305, USA.'
00073
00074 MediaWiki use Creative Commons license marks to points to their online
00075 licenses. This content is trademarked and used under a specific license
00076 available at http://creativecommons.org/policies#trademark
00077 The restricted content is:
00078
00079 * skins/common/images/cc-by-nc-sa.png
00080 * skins/common/images/cc-by-sa.png
00081
00082 Many thanks to the Wikimedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
00083
00084 The official website for MediaWiki is located at:
00085
00086         http://www.mediawiki.org/
00087
00088 The code is currently maintained in a Git repository at
00089 gerrit.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git for details.
00090
00091 Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
00092
00093 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
00094
00095 Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
00096
00097 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
00098 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
00099 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development
00100
00101 Extensions are listed at:
00102
00103 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions
00104
00105 If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly
00106 recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
00107
00108 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
00109
00110 The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for announcements
00111 of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
00112
00113 A higher volume support mailing list can be found at:
00114
00115 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
00116
00117 Developer discussion takes place at:
00118
00119 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
00120
00121 There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net,
00122 and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com.