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MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is written in PHP and uses an underlying MySQL relational database. Its logo symbolizes how its markup language uses brackets [[picture of flower]] to link articles together, in contrast to CamelCase. MediaWiki is being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Lead developer is Brion Vibber.

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We just upgraded to Mediawiki 1.10.

Current Versions[edit]

Unstable Release (running on wikimedia sites) 1.11

The current version of MediaWiki.org itself is 1.11alpha [1]

The current stable version of MediaWiki is 1.9.3 (released on 2007-02-20) (Download)

The current legacy version of MediaWiki is 1.4.13 / 1.3.18 (2006-01-05,2005-11-02)

2006-01-05: Protection against Windows WMF vulnerability in 1.5.5 and 1.4.13

Please upgrade if you have uploads enabled to avoid being a vector for unpatched clients.

2005-12-21: Fix for remote code execution bug in 1.5 branch

Upgrade all 1.5 installations to 1.5.4 or higher immediately!

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

New features in 1.4[edit]

* 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
* New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
* Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag)
* SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools)
* Users can select from the available localizations to override the
  default user interface language.
* Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
* rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam

New features in 1.5[edit]

MediaWiki 1.5.0 final

MediaWiki 1.5 continues the architectural changes started in version 1.4. Its most notable change is a substantially redesigned database schema, which finally completely decouples text storage from article revision tracking. This is expected to increase the speed of various operations like page moves and generating page history listings, as well as allowing unchanging bulk data to be stored outside the database.

New features in 1.6[edit]

Major plans for 1.6

   * Case-insensitive, case-preserving page titles
   * Localized sort order for sorted lists
   * WYSIWYG based on FCKeditor

New features in 1.7[edit]

July 7, 2006: 1.7.0 new stable branch

MediaWiki 1.7 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
Experimental Oracle support has been dropped

A new "langlinks" table tracks interlanguage links
A new "filearchive" table stores information on deleted files
A new "querycache_info" table stores information on query page updates

To ensure that these tables are filled with data, run refreshLinks.php after the upgrade.

Deleted files can now be archived and undeleted, if you set up an appropriate non-web-accessible directory.

Experimental PostgreSQL support has been updated.

release notes, Upgrading to 1.7

New features in 1.10[edit]

see release notes

MediaWiki CVS[edit]

basic info about the wikimedia cvs is here: https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=34373

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia co -P modulename

Links[edit]

MediaWiki homepage

MediaWiki download page

MediaWiki on Wikipedia

The MetaWiki for MediaWiki

MediaWiki roadmap

Extensions[edit]

see Category:Mediawiki Extensions, SQL table structure of MediaWiki

Own extension without the fancy interface[edit]

< scott7> is there a way to make a PHP-Driven Page, almost like a special page but without showing up of the  menu+tab+style?
< robchurch> You want a special page minus the fancy interface?
< scott7> yes, i just want a popup wich provides an input assistent, but it must have db-access and control wther the user is logged on or not
< robchurch> global $wgOut;
< robchurch> $wgOut->disable();
< robchurch> Then do your own output with echo();

MediaWiki Appliance for VMWare[edit]

--> see vehera-base

MediaWiki bots[edit]

Creating MediaWiki bots in PHP

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-[[Image:MediaWiki_logo.png|thumb|Mediawiki logo]]
+[[File:MediaWiki logo.png|thumb|MediaWiki logo|alt=]]
-MediaWiki is a [[Wiki]] software package licensed under the [[GNU]] General Public License. It is written in [[PHP]] and uses an underlying [[MySQL]] relational database. Its logo symbolizes how its markup language uses brackets <nowiki>[[picture of flower]]</nowiki> to link articles together, in contrast to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase CamelCase].
+MediaWiki is a [[Wiki]] software package licensed under the [[GNU]] General Public License. It is written in [[PHP]] and uses an underlying [[MySQL]] relational database. Its logo symbolizes how its markup language uses brackets <nowiki>[[picture of flower]]</nowiki> to link articles together, in contrast to [[w:CamelCase|CamelCase]].
-Mediawiki is being developed by the [[Wikimedia]] Foundation. Lead developer is [[Brion Vibber]].
+MediaWiki is being developed by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]].  Lead developer is [[Brion Vibber]].
 <br>
 <br>
 <br>
-<small>from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki wikipedia]</small>
+<small>from [[w:MediaWiki|wikipedia]]</small>
-Related: [[Wikimedia]], [[HowTo/BecomeAMediawikiHacker]]
+Related: [[Wikimedia Foundation]], [[HowTo/BecomeAMediawikiHacker]]
+We just upgraded to Mediawiki 1.10.
+===Current Versions===
-We just upgraded to Mediawiki 1.4.
+Unstable Release (running on wikimedia sites) 1.11
+The current version of MediaWiki.org itself is 1.11alpha [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version]
-=== Current Versions ===
+'''The current stable version of MediaWiki is 1.9.3 (released on 2007-02-20)''' ([[mw:Download|Download]])
- Unstable Release (running on wikimedia sites) 1.11
-The current version of Mediawiki.org itself is 1.9.3 [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:MW_stable_release_number]
-'''The current stable version of MediaWiki is 1.5.5 (released on 2006-01-05)''' ([http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download Download])
 The current legacy version of MediaWiki is 1.4.13 / 1.3.18 (2006-01-05,2005-11-02)
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-* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
+* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
-=== New features in 1.4 ===
+===New features in 1.4===
 <pre>
 * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
@@ Line 44: / Line 41: @@
   default user interface language.
 * Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
-* rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam
+* rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam</pre>
-</pre>
-=== New features in 1.5 ===
+===New features in 1.5===
+[https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=361506 MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ]
-[http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=361506 MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ]
 MediaWiki 1.5 continues the architectural changes started in version 1.4. Its most notable change is a substantially redesigned database schema, which finally completely decouples text storage from article revision tracking. This is expected to increase the speed of various operations like page moves and generating page history listings, as well as allowing unchanging bulk data to be stored outside the database.
-=== New features in 1.6 ===
+===New features in 1.6===
 Major plans for 1.6
@@ Line 61: / Line 55: @@
     * WYSIWYG based on FCKeditor
-=== New features in 1.7 ===
+===New features in 1.7===
  July 7, 2006: 1.7.0 new stable branch
 #MediaWiki 1.7 requires [[PHP]] 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
@@ Line 74: / Line 66: @@
 * A new "querycache_info" table stores information on query page updates
-To ensure that these tables are filled with data, run refreshLinks.php after
+To ensure that these tables are filled with data, run refreshLinks.php after the upgrade.
-the upgrade.
 Deleted files can now be archived and undeleted, if you set up an appropriate non-web-accessible directory.
@@ Line 81: / Line 72: @@
 Experimental PostgreSQL support has been updated.
-[http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES release notes], [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading_to_1.7 Upgrading to 1.7]
+[https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES release notes], [[mw:Manual:Upgrading to 1.7|Upgrading to 1.7]]
-=== Mediawiki [[CVS]] ===
+===New features in 1.10===
+see [https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_10_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES?revision=22047&view=markup release notes]
+===MediaWiki [[CVS]]===
-basic info about the wikimedia cvs is here: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=34373
+basic info about the wikimedia cvs is here: https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=34373
  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia login
@@ Line 92: / Line 84: @@
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia co -P modulename
-=== Links ===
+===Links===
+*[[mw:MediaWiki|MediaWiki homepage]]
-* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki Homepage]
+*[[mw:Download|MediaWiki download page]]
+*[[w:MediaWiki|MediaWiki on Wikipedia]]
-* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download Mediawiki Download Page]
+*[[metawikimedia:MediaWiki|The MetaWiki for MediaWiki]]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki on Wikipedia]
+*[[metawikimedia:MediaWiki roadmap|MediaWiki roadmap]]
-* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki The MetaWiki for Mediawiki]
+===Extensions===
-* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap Media Wiki Roadmap]
+see [[:Category:Mediawiki Extensions]], [[MediaWiki/tables|SQL table structure of MediaWiki]]
-=== Extensions ===
-see [[:Category:Mediawiki_Extensions]], [[Mediawiki/tables|SQL table structure of mediawiki]]
-==== Own extension without the fancy interface ====
+====Own extension without the fancy interface====
  < scott7> is there a way to make a PHP-Driven Page, almost like a special page but without showing up of the  menu+tab+style?
  < robchurch> You want a special page minus the fancy interface?
@@ Line 117: / Line 106: @@
  < robchurch> Then do your own output with echo();
-==== Mediawiki Appliance for [[VMWare]] ====
+====MediaWiki Appliance for [[VMWare]]====
 --> see [[vehera-base]]
+====MediaWiki bots====
+*[http://wikisum.com/w/User:Adam/Creating_MediaWiki_bots_in_PHP#Logging_your_Bot_in Creating MediaWiki bots in PHP]
 [[Category:Wiki]]