MediaWiki is an open source software, a 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.
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 a database, such as MySQL.
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.
What's New in This Release:
· Bumped MySQL version requirement to 5.0.2
· Disable the partial HTML and MathML rendering options for Math
· and render as PNG by default
· MathML mode was so incomplete most people thought it simply didn't work
· New skins/common/*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy
· piles of
· generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css
· The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the
· user link
· Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer
· Better timezone recognition in user preferences
· Extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from URL paths
· The command-line installer supports various RDBMSes better
· The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki
· cache
· is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension)
· More gender support (for instance in user lists)
· Add languages: Canadian English
· Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page
· content language
· Time and number-formatting magic words also now dep...