README

   1 2003-04-14
   2
   3 This is the "Phase III" codebase for the Wikipedia project
   4 (http://www.wikipedia.org). It is possibly usable as a
   5 general-purpose wiki, but it was not intended as such and
   6 there is little or no support available for using it as such
   7 from the developers, who are busy full time supporting the
   8 Wikipedia project. There are many good general-purpose Wikis
   9 in the world. I personally recommend UseMod
  10 (http://www.usemod.com/).
  11
  12 The code as a whole is Copyright 2002-3 by Lee Daniel Crocker,
  13 Magnus Manske, Jan Hidders, Brion Vibber, Axel Boldt,
  14 Geoffrey T. Dairiki, Tomasz Wegrzanowski, and others,
  15 licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
  16 version 2 (see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html).
  17 Derivative works and later versions of the code will also be
  18 considered free software licensed under the same terms.
  19
  20 Many thanks to the Wikipedia regulars for testing and
  21 suggestions.
  22
  23 Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker are also
  24 released into the public domain, wich does not impair the
  25 obligations of users under the GPL for use of the whole code
  26 or other sections thereof.
  27
  28 The code is currently maintained at Sourceforge under the
  29 project "wikipedia", module name "phase3".  You can view the
  30 code in CVS, report bugs and make feature requests there:
  31
  32   http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net
  33
  34 The code is written in PHP. It was tested mainly on version
  35 4.06, but it is known to run in later versions.  I requires
  36 MySQL 3.23 or later, and PHP-MySQL. It is now running with
  37 PHP 4.2.2 and MySQL 3.23.49 at http://www.wikipedia.org .
  38 The code was written on and for Linux, and no attempt has
  39 been made to make it portable to other OSs, though it may
  40 happen to run on some.  The math support in particular has
  41 run-time dependencies on things like TeTeX and GhostScript
  42 that are generally found in Linux but not other OSs.
  43
  44 -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
  45