MediaWiki

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. from wikipedia

Related: Wikimedia, HowTo/BecomeAMediawikiHacker

We just upgraded to Mediawiki 1.4.

Current Versions
The current version of Mediawiki.org itself is 1.6devel

The current stable version of MediaWiki is 1.5.3 (released on 2005-12-04) (Download)

The current legacy version of MediaWiki is 1.4.12 / 1.3.18 (both released on 2005-11-02)

New features in 1.4
default user interface language.
 * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
 * New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
 * Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and tag)
 * SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools)
 * Users can select from the available localizations to override the
 * Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
 * rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam

New features in 1.5
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
Major plans for 1.6

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

Mediawiki CVS
basic info about the wikimedia cvs is here: http://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

 * Mediawiki Homepage


 * Mediawiki Download Page


 * Mediawiki on Wikipedia


 * The MetaWiki for Mediawiki


 * Media Wiki Roadmap

Extensions
see Category:Mediawiki_Extensions, SQL table structure of mediawiki