3 For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files
4 RELEASE-NOTES, INSTALL, and UPGRADE.
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 60000+ 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
41 * Alexandre Emsenhuber
45 * Several others (view CREDITS for a more complete list)
47 The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed under the
48 terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (see
49 http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later
50 versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same or a
51 compatible license. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or
52 variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins for
55 The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software.
57 Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are also
58 released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of users
59 under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof.
61 MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod,
62 http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/ which has the following license:
64 'This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
65 License. To view a copy of this license, visit
66 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter
67 to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way,
68 Stanford, California 94305, USA.'
70 MediaWiki use Creative Commons license marks to points to their online
71 licenses. This content is trademarked and used under a specific license
72 available at http://creativecommons.org/policies#trademark
73 The restricted content is:
75 * skins/common/images/cc-by-nc-sa.png
76 * skins/common/images/cc-by-sa.png
78 Many thanks to the Wikimedia regulars for testing and suggestions.
80 The official website for MediaWiki is located at:
82 http://www.mediawiki.org/
84 The code is currently maintained in a Subversion repository at
85 svn.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion for details.
87 Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system:
89 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
91 Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at:
93 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
94 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
95 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development
97 Extensions are listed at:
99 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions
101 If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly
102 recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce:
104 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
106 The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for announcements
107 of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
109 A higher volume support mailing list can be found at:
111 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
113 Developer discussion takes place at:
115 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
117 There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net,
118 and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com.