MediaWiki

MediaWiki is wiki software, released under the GPL, that is used by projects and others. It is an implementation of a Wiki, a content pool that anyone can freely edit. It is developed using MediaZilla (our version of BugZilla).

MediaWiki is the latest stable version, and is recommended for third-party users. Those running their own servers should Upgrading MediaWiki for security reasons. Version shows what version a site is running. You can play around in the local Sandbox to see this version in action.

MediaWiki is available for download from http://www.wikimedia.org/ . MediaWiki is currently running on all Wikimedia sites. Third-party users should probably not run the alpha/beta versions of MediaWiki on publically-accessible servers at this time, unless you really keep up with fixes.

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About

Introduction
Contents learn how to use mediawiki

Technical developers section

Mailing lists, especially wikitech.
IRC channel

Miscellaneous

MediaWiki features
MediaWiki hosting with free installation of Mediawiki
MediaWiki Tutorial with screenshots: how to install and configure Mediawiki, how to change skins; how to add extensions

Technical

Versions

Here are releases with major feature changes, detailed changelogs are linked to from these pages. Also upgrade instructions might be available. 1.2 - 1.3 - 1.4 - 1.5 - 1.6 - 1.7 - 1.8

MediaWiki 1.6.7

MediaWiki 1.6.7 was released as a stable version on June 06, 2006.

Wikimedia sites

During the period 21-29 May 2004, all Wikimedia sites were upgraded to version 1.3.
In December 2004 all Wikimedia sites were upgraded to version 1.4.
In June 2005 Wikimedia sites were upgraded to version 1.5.
In August 2005 Wikimedia sites were upgraded to version 1.6alpha.

Database dump

For downloadable dumps of Wikipedia's article database, see Wikipedia:Database download. For a description of the database format and fields, see schema.doc.

To create your own dump of a local Mediawiki site, you can use the dumpBackup.php script found in the maintenance directory of your Mediawiki installation tree. Make sure that AdminSettings.php has been configured. By default, Mediawiki ships with an AdminSettings.sample file that needs to be edited to suit your configuration and renamed to AdminSettings.php

An example invocation to perform a full backup might look like:

php maintenance\dumpBackup.php --full > full.xml

Command line options for dumpBackup.php are explained by running it with no parameters, i.e.

php maintenance\dumpBackup.php

However, there are some extra undocumented options in its source code.

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