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	Examples of entities using MediaWiki include:		Examples of entities using MediaWiki include:

	Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, [[Vendor:LabLynx, Inc.\|LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia		Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, [[Vendor:LabLynx, Inc.\|LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Vendor:Quality Systems International Corporation\|Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia

	A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].		A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].

Shawndouglas: Text replacement - "Vendor:LabLynx, Inc." to "LabLynx, Inc."

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	Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, [[Vendor:LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia		Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, [[Vendor:LabLynx, Inc.\|LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia

	A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].		A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].

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	Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, \[\[Vendor:LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia		Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, [[Vendor:LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia

	A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].		A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].

Shawndouglas: Text replacement - "\[\[LabLynx, Inc.(.*)" to "\[\[Vendor:LabLynx, Inc.$1"

2024-03-28T00:50:29Z

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	Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, [[LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia		Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, \[\[Vendor:LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia

	A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].		A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].

Shawndouglas: /* External links */ Removed standalone SF links so as to not encourage downloading from that site.

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	==External links==		==External links==

	* [~~http~~://~~sourceforge~~.net/~~projects/wikipedia/ MediaWiki] on SourceForge~~		* [https://www.openhub.net/p/mediawiki MediaWiki] on Open Hub
	* [https://github.com/mediawiki MediaWiki] ~~mirror~~ on ~~GitHub~~
	* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download MediaWiki] download page		* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download MediaWiki] download page

Shawndouglas: /* Videos, screenshots, and other media */ Removed erroneous demo link.

2012-04-05T17:41:08Z

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	Video tutorials for MediaWiki can found on [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB0168AB327B0FE03 mkmartion's YouTube channel].		Video tutorials for MediaWiki can found on [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB0168AB327B0FE03 mkmartion's YouTube channel].

	~~Access the online demo [http://demo.moodle.net/ here].~~

	==Entities using MediaWiki==		==Entities using MediaWiki==

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	* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ MediaWiki] on SourceForge		* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ MediaWiki] on SourceForge
			* [https://github.com/mediawiki MediaWiki] mirror on GitHub
	* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download MediaWiki] download page		* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download MediaWiki] download page

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{{Infobox software
| name = MediaWiki
| title = MediaWiki
| logo = [[Image:MediaWiki-smaller-logo.png|frameless|140px]]
| screenshot = 
| caption =
| collapsible =
| author =
| developer = Wikimedia Foundation
| released = {{Start date|2003|12|08}}<ref name="MW1.1">{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=202383&group_id=34373 |title=File Release Notes and Changelog - Release Name: MediaWiki 1.1.0 |publisher=SourceForge |date=8 December 2003 |accessdate=3 April 2012}}</ref>
| discontinued =
| frequently updated = yes
| programming language = PHP
| operating system = Cross-platform
| platform =
| size =
| language = Multilingual
| status =
| genre = Content management system<br />Wiki software
| license = GNU General Public License v2+
| website = [http://mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki.org]
}}

'''MediaWiki''' is a free open-source wiki software application developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others. It is used to run all of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikinews.

Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites. The software is optimized to correctly and efficiently handle projects of all sizes, including the largest wikis, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per second.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics |title=Wikipedia:Statistics |work=Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation, Inc |accessdate=3 April 2012}}</ref> Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has also been a major concern for developers. Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki.

The software is highly customizable, with more than 700 configuration settings<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_configuration_settings |title=Category:MediaWiki configuration settings |publisher=MediaWiki |accessdate=3 April 2012}}</ref> and more than 1,800 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed.<ref name="mediawiki1">{{cite web|url=http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix |title=Extension Matrix |publisher=MediaWiki |accessdate=03 April 2012}}</ref> More than 600 automated and semi-automated bots and other tools have been developed to assist in editing MediaWiki sites.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots |title=Wikipedia:Bots |work=Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation, Inc |accessdate=3 April 2012}}</ref>

==Product history==

When Wikipedia was first launched in January 2001, it ran on the existing wiki software UseModWiki, which was written in Perl and stored all wiki pages in text files. This software soon proved limiting, both in its functionality and its performance. In mid-2001, Magnus Manske, a developer and student at the University of Cologne, who was also a Wikipedia editor, began working on new software that would replace UseModWiki, specifically for use by Wikipedia. This software was written in PHP and stored all its information in a [[MySQL]] database. It launched on the English Wikipedia in January 2002, and was gradually deployed on all the Wikipedia language sites of that time. This software was referred to as "the PHP script" and as "phase II," with the name "phase I" retroactively given to the use of UseModWiki.

Increasing usage soon caused load problems again, and soon afterward, another rewrite of the software began, done by Lee Daniel Crocker, which was first known as "phase III." This new software was also written in PHP with a MySQL backend, and kept the basic interface of the phase II software, but was meant to be more scalable. It went live on Wikipedia in July 2002.

The Wikimedia Foundation was announced on June 20, 2003, and in July, Wikipedia contributor Daniel Mayer suggested the name "MediaWiki" for the software, as a play on "Wikimedia."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-July/011021.html |author=Mayer, Daniel |title=Phase IV, Wikibooks.org/.com and WikimediaFoundation.org/.com (was Wikis and uniformity) |work=Wikipedia-L mailing list archives |date=19 July 2003 |accessdate=3 April 2012}}</ref> The name was gradually phased in beginning in August 2003.

Later, Brion Vibber, the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation,<ref>{{cite book |title=Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder |author=Weinberger, David |year=2007 |publisher=Times Books|isbn=0805080430 |page=99}}</ref> took up the role of release manager and most active developer.<ref name="MediaWiki_history">{{cite web |url=http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_history |title=MediaWiki history |publisher=MediaWiki |accessdate=3 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="WikipediaandMediaWikiTalk">{{cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWef69ItVrU |title=Wikipedia and MediaWiki |publisher=YouTube |date=28 April 2006 |accessdate=3 April 2012}}</ref>

Major milestones in MediaWiki's development have included the categorization system, added in 2004; parser functions, added in 2006; and flagged revisions, added in 2008.<ref name="Introducing">{{cite web |url=http://journal.webscience.org/213/ |title=Introducing new features to Wikipedia |author=Schindler, Mathias; Denny Vrandecic |publisher=Proceedings of the WebSci |year=2009}}</ref>

==Features==

A full list of features of MediaWiki, with explanation for some of the features, can be found on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_feature_list MediaWiki page].

==Hardware/software requirements==

MediaWiki requires the following:

* a web server to send the generated pages to your web browser
* PHP to run the software
* a database server to store the pages and site data

For a full explanation of the installation requirements of MediaWiki (which can vary from version to version) please consult the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements MediaWiki manual].

==Videos, screenshots, and other media==

Screenshots for MediaWiki can be found on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_screenshots MediaWiki site].

Video tutorials for MediaWiki can found on [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB0168AB327B0FE03 mkmartion's YouTube channel].

Access the online demo [http://demo.moodle.net/ here].

==Entities using MediaWiki==

Examples of entities using MediaWiki include:

Computational Intelligence Research Lab at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Computer Science Department at California State University – Los Angeles, Ifigenia, Intel Corporation, [[LabLynx, Inc.]], Novell, OpenWetWare, [[Quality Systems International Corporation]], RxWiki, Wikademia

A full directory of MediaWiki users can be found in [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_testimonials several places] on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki MediaWiki website].

==Further reading==

* {{cite web |url=http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Contents |title=Documentation for MediaWiki |publisher=MediaWiki}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Books_about_MediaWiki |title=WikiMedia Books |publisher=MediaWiki}}

==External links==

* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ MediaWiki] on SourceForge
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download MediaWiki] download page

==References==
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