Available package on your Virtual Server
MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki is a
free software
wiki package written in
PHP, originally for use on
Wikipedia.
It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation and by
many other wikis, including
the home of MediaWiki.
Use the links below to explore the site contents.
You'll find some content translated into other languages, but the primary
documentation language is English.
For general questions about MediaWiki see the
communication page. If you
have a question about this wiki, please visit
the forum.
MediaWiki is
free server-based software which is licensed under the
GNU General Public License (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large
server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is
an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki
implementation, that uses
PHP
to process and display data stored in its
MySQL database.
Pages use MediaWiki's
wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of
XHTML or
CSS can edit them easily.
When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki
writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the
page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. MediaWiki
can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the
filesystem. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching
and can be easily coupled with Squid proxy server software.
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