Category:MediaWiki

MediaWiki Changes WikiNode About Documentation Main topic: Wiki Engine Founded by: Magnus Manske ('pre-version') Lee Daniel Crocker (1st official version) Owner / CEO: Wikimedia Foundation (owner) Interface language: Multilingual Programming language: PHP Software license: GNU General Public License Status: Vibrant

MediaWiki (MW) software is the wiki engine software package that runs this WikiIndex wiki site. Originally designed and developed for Wikipedia in 2002 (though not the original Wikipedia wiki engine from 2001 – that was the Perl-based UseMod Wiki); MediaWiki is now used by the most active and largest wikis, it is also used extensively, and exclusively by other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects; along with many, many other independent wikis, and commercial wiki farms.

The initial 'pre-version' (known as 'Phase II software' in Wikipedia circles) was created by Magnus Manske, and used on all available Wikipedia versions from 25 January 2002. A 'Phase III software' became the first official MediaWiki, and was a substantial re-write by Lee Daniel Crocker; this was first used on the English Wikipedia on 20 July 2002. MediaWiki is compiled and written in PHP, and is probably the most widely deployed wiki engine software. Some would argue that a wiki should be more simplistic, with fewer features; but MediaWikis' design , and its success speaks for itself. MediaWiki has spawned many clones, or 'forks', the most notable being Wikia. MediaWiki is a highly developed, feature-rich software that is released for free under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL v2), and requires either MySQL 5.0.2+, PostgreSQL, or SQLite for data storage.

In December 2008, this fellow found all open installs (Archive.org link) of the MediaWiki code. And until mid 2013, there used to be the MediaWiki Users forums (Archive.org link).

• View a detailed feature list of MediaWiki on the WikiMatrix wiki engine comparison wiki-site.

MediaWiki size information

add /Special:Statistics at the end of the URL – eg. http://YourWikiURL.org/Special:Statistics (non-English language versions will automatically convert this to actual language). Dependent on MW software version, there is a number called 'Content pages' or sometimes 'pages that are probably legitimate content pages' – use that lower number. Ignore the (often much larger) 'all pages in the wiki, including redirects' number. We can also add MediaWiki site listings to the https://S23.org/wikistats/mediawikis_html.php system which tracks various wiki statistics.

MediaWiki wikiFactor information

go to the /Special:PopularPages page of the wiki – http://YourWikiURL.org/Special:PopularPages.

See also

• MediaWiki.org — home wiki for discussion, help, development, and advice for use on the specific MediaWiki software and extensions
• MediaWiki-announce – MediaWiki update and security announcements list — at Lists.Wikimedia.org
• MediaWiki-l – MediaWiki announcements and site admin list — at Lists.Wikimedia.org
• Directory of all MediaWiki releases — at Releases.Wikimedia.org
• Sites using MediaWiki — at MediaWiki.org
• Category:MediaWiki wiki farms
• MediaWikiOrg Twitter feed — (rather dormant and inactive!)
• MediaWikiOrg Facebook page
• MediaWiki Developers Facebook group
• List of 1308 private MediaWikis — sortable list from WikiStats by S23.org (last updated 27 March 2011, but still useful information)
• Help:Contents — from MediaWiki.org
• Comparison of UseMod with MediaWiki — at UseMod Wiki

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF), founded 20 June 2003, is the wiki company and non-profit charitable organization responsible for a very large number (over 900 in total) of very active wikis, grouped together and known as 'projects'; as well as the wiki engine software initially developed by themselves, known as MediaWiki. The Foundations' major wiki projects include Wikipedia (encyclopedias), Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), Wikiquote (quotations), Wikibooks (open content textbooks), Wikisource (free content primary and secondary source texts), Wikinews (news source), Wikiversity (open learning community), Wikispecies (free species directory), and many others as listed below. Most of these projects have separate wiki versions written in many different languages. There is also the Wikimedia Commons (shared repository for documents, images, videos, and other media files), Wikidata (central space knowledge base for data used on all WMF projects), and the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (coordination of issues common to all Wikimedia projects). The Foundations' global reach is nurtured in its Incubator, where all new language versions for all projects are initiated and developed before being rolled out. Its most recent major project, Wikivoyage (a 'travelpedia'), was inducted to WMF in late 2012.

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a member of the Open Source Initiative.

All Wikimedia Foundation projects, wikis, and portals ^{(view / edit) • (category)}

Wikipedia • Wiktionary • Wikiquote • Wikibooks • Wikisource • Wikinews • Wikiversity • Wikispecies • MediaWiki.org • Wikidata • Commons • Wikivoyage • Meta-Wiki • Incubator • Labs • Wikitech • Chapters • Wikimania • Outreach • Toolserver • Toolforge • Statistics • Phabricator • Beta Cluster • Downloads • Analytics • Software Releases • Documentation • Blog • Shop • Donate • Login

original Wikimedia Foundation logo from 2003

subsequent Wikimedia Foundation logo

Wikimedia Foundation private and management wikis

Board • BoardGovCom • Foundation Governance • Office • Executive • Internal • Affiliations Committee • OTRS • Collab • Movement Roles • Audit Committee • Search Committee • Advisory Board • Quality • Usability Initiative • Strategic Planning • SP-Com • Stewards • CheckUser • Advisors

External links

• www.Wikimedia.org — portal to all of the major WMF projects
• Wikimedia Foundation Vision — at the WikimediaFoundation.org blog
• Wikimedia Foundation - Terms of Use — at the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki, at Foundation.Wikimedia.org
• WikimediaFoundation.org — original public wiki of Wikimedia Foundation, closed July 2018
• Complete list of Wikimedia projects — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• List of Wikimedia projects by size (sortable) — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• SiteMatrix table of all Wikimedia wikis — listed by language, project, interproject link, and interwiki, at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, along with list of all private and management wiki
• Toolserver:Wiki server assignments — formerly at Wikimedia Toolserver, now at MediaWiki.org
• Current status Wikimedia Foundation - Core services — public website health status for WMF, at Status.Wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Status
• Wikimedia Statistics – Wikistats – comprehensive statistics by project — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikimedia Statistics – All wikis — Wikistats v2 (Creative Commons CC0), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikiscan statistics — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikiscan.org
• Database dump progress — list of live database dumps at Wikimedia Downloads, at Dumps.Wikimedia.org
• Wikimedia Interactive Statistics^{[dead link]} — from Wikistatistics.net – archived spapshot from archive.is
• Special Wikimedia Projects by size — sortable list from WikiStats by S23.org (last updated 11 September 2011, but still useful information)
• plain-text database list — at NOC.Wikimedia.org, Wikimedia NOC
• Wikimedia Grid Report — multiple detailed performance graphs from Ganglia.Wikimedia.org
• Phabricator — formerly Bugzilla.Wikimedia.org, now Phabricator.Wikimedia.org, for bug reporting, tracking, and software development
• Public Mailing Lists — at Lists.Wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Lists
• Wikimedia.org site info — from Alexa.com
• Wikipediocracy — an extensive highly detailed WordPress blog and internet forum exposing the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related Wikimedia projects

Further reading

• Dan Bell (editor) (August 2009), The Wiki Handbook: THE How To on Wiki, Complete Expert's hints and tips guide by the leading experts, everything you need to know about Wiki [1], Emereo Publishing, ISBN 1742441661, paperback, 140 pages.

The wikis and / or other articles listed below in this category and sub-categories are powered by, or refer to the MediaWiki wiki engine.