MediaWiki is free and open-source and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
Special – Special pages of the MediaWiki software.Category talk – talk about the category.Template talk – talk about the template.MediaWiki talk – Talk about the software page, anyone can write in this namespace.MediaWiki – Software pages, can only be changed from an administrator.Project talk – The project page talk page.Project – The project namespace (like on this wiki, is Wikipedia).User talk – the user talk page, also from Special:MyTalk.User – the user page, also from Special:MyPage.In the default installation of MediaWiki, the software has 17 namespaces (18 actually, but one does not have a namespace), namely: There were a total of 2124 extensions as of October 4, 2013. For example, the Makesysop extension is an extension to promote a user into an administrator or a bureaucrat. Some extensions had been added to the main software along the development of MediaWiki. However, there are some other extensions that other people host themselves.
Most extensions can be download from Wikimedia's Subversion repository. Some are from the MediaWiki developers, while others are from programmers from all around the world.
In MediaWiki, a system administrator can choose to install extensions which are provided on the main MediaWiki website. There are also some websites that use MediaWiki as a content management system. īecause MediaWiki is flexible, many websites that want people to contribute information use MediaWiki rather than other types of wiki software. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching and can be easily coupled with Squid proxy server software.Īll Wikimedia projects run on MediaWiki version 1.39.0-wmf.22 (511db43). MediaWiki can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the filesystem. When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. Pages use MediaWiki's Wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily. It uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database. MediaWiki is a very powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation. MediaWiki is designed to be run on a large web server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. This means it is free content, or open source. It is a free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). MediaWiki is the name of the software that runs all of the Wikimedia projects and many more.