3 For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files RELEASE-NOTES,
8 MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org/] and the
9 other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an
10 excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using
11 multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 5000+ requests per second range
14 While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own"
15 local documentation, and some aspects of configuration may seem overcomplicated
16 because MediaWiki is primarily targeted as an in-house tool.
18 The MediaWiki software was written by:
31 * Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
37 The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed
38 under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later[1]
39 (see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later
40 versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same
41 terms. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or
42 variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins
45 The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software.
47 [1] Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are
48 also released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of
49 users under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof.
51 [2] MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod,
52 http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/
53 which has the following license:
55 'This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
56 License. To view a copy of this license, visit
57 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter
58 to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way,
59 Stanford, California 94305, USA.'
61 Many thanks to the Wikimedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
63 The official website for mediawiki is located at:
65 http://www.mediawiki.org/
67 The code is currently maintained in a Subversion repository
68 at svn.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion
71 Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
73 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
75 Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
77 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ
78 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
79 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development
81 Extensions are listed at:
83 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_extensions
85 If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly
86 recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
88 http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
90 The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for
91 announcements of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
93 A higher volume support mailing list can be found at:
95 http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
97 Developer discussion takes place at:
99 http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
101 There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on
102 irc.freenode.net, and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com.