MediaWiki.org

Note: this page is about the wiki specifically for help, administration and development of the MediaWiki 'wiki engine' software.

For a comprehensive list here on WikiIndex of the diverse array wikis powered by the MediaWiki software, see: category:MediaWiki.

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Status:	Vibrant
Language:	Multilingual
Edit mode:	OpenEdit
Wiki engine:	MediaWiki
Wiki license:	MultiLicense"MultiLicense" is not in the list (Custom license, Attribution to contributing authors, Copyright to contributing authors, Site retains copyright, WTFPL, Licence Art Libre, Open Content License, Apache License, BSD Documentation License, FreeBSD Documentation License, ...) of allowed values for the "Wiki license" property.
Main topic:	MediaWiki
Backups:	unknown or dynamic date

MediaWiki.org is the official wiki site for the 'MediaWiki' wiki engine software and associated add-ons, called 'Extensions' — and nothing else related to MediaWiki or the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF).

The MediaWiki.org wiki now provides all documentation, technical support, development, and surrounding information for the MediaWiki software. Historically, before the MediaWiki.org wiki was created, most of the development and user support information was to be found at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki; an older site, which deals with meta subjects relating to all WMF projects and wikis. The slightly newer MediaWiki.org wiki became the sole place for development, support and documentation of the MediaWiki software, and much of the earlier software-specific content originally created on the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki has now been moved across to the MediaWiki.org wiki.

Both sites are run by the 'not-for-profit' Wikimedia Foundation (WMF); who oversee MediaWiki development, and who also own and run the Wikipedia empire, and all its sister projects. MediaWiki.org wiki is an extremely active and dedicated community; its members include software developers (for both the core MediaWiki software, and the many add-on Extensions), editors of other WMF wikis, and owners/sysops of other independent wikis which also use the MediaWiki software. Major portions of the MediaWiki.org wiki are multilingual, but the primary working language is English.

Textual content of the MediaWiki.org wiki is released under a dual license: the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (CC BY-SA 3.0) and the earlier GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or GFDL), as detailed in the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use. However, the actual MediaWiki software is released for free under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL v2), whereas the many related add-on extensions may be released under the GPL or any other license which their original developer deemed fit.

Culture

The MediaWiki.org wiki has very few written policies and guidelines, and sysop actions are rarely discussed in any centralized forums. Deletion decisions, for example, are usually made unilaterally by sysops, rather than being processed through 'x for deletion' pages. Therefore, MediaWiki.org has been compared to Hollywood depictions of the 'old west' in which, after sheriffs (i.e. sysops) have been selected, there is little oversight of what they do.

Wiki size:

36,248 article pages see stats

(As of: 2018-07-10)

• MediaWiki.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Directory of all MediaWiki releases — at releases.Wikimedia.org
• MediaWiki Statistics — stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• MediaWiki Interactive Statistics — from Wikistatistics.net – archived snapshot from 2013-05-06 at archive.is
• MediaWiki.org site info — from Alexa.com

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current Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) logo

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF), founded 20 June 2003, is the wiki company and non-profit charitable organization[1] responsible for a very large number (over 900 in total) of very active collaborative user-generated wiki sites, which are grouped together by primary subject and known as a 'project'; as well as the wiki engine software initially developed by themselves, known as MediaWiki. The Wikimedia Foundations' major wiki projects started with Wikipedia (encyclopedia), and subsequently expanded to include Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), Wikiquote (quotations), Wikibooks (open content textbooks), Wikisource (free content primary-source 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 site versions written in many different languages. There is also the Wikimedia Commons (shared multilingual repository for documents, images, videos, and other media and text files), and the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (multilingual coordination of issues common to all Wikimedia projects). The Wikimedia Foundations' global reach is nurtured in its Incubator, where all new language versions for all projects are initiated and developed before being launched as a new separate wiki site. The Foundations' most recent major multi-language wiki project, Wikivoyage (a 'travelpedia'), was inducted to WMF in late 2012 (having being independently established in 2006). Also launched in 2012 was Wikidata (a major multilingual central space knowledge base for structured data used on all WMF projects). The newest WMF project is Wikifunctions, launched in mid 2023, is a library of code functions in many different programming languages.

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Furthermore, the Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, granted April 2005, and headquartered at 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600, San Francisco County, State of California 94104, United States of America.[2]

All Wikimedia Foundation projects, wiki sites, portals, and websites ^{(view • edit • talk)}

Wikipedia • Wiktionary • Wikiquote • Wikibooks • Wikisource • Wikinews • Wikiversity • Wikispecies • MediaWiki.org • Commons • Commons Archive • Wikidata • Wikidata Test • Wikivoyage • Meta-Wiki • Incubator • Wikitech • Wikitech Test • Wikifunctions • Wikimedia Foundation •

Chapters • Thematic organizations • User groups • Wikimania • Outreach • Labs • Toolserver • Toolforge • Statistics • Phabricator • Beta Cluster • Downloads • Analytics • Software Releases • Documentation • Lists • Blog • Shop • Donate • Login • Diff • API Portal • Developer Portal • Global Search

original Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) logo from 2003

subsequent Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) 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 • Thank You • Vote

Wikimedia Foundation hosting services

Wikimedia Cloud Services • Wikimedia Cloud VPS

External links

• www.Wikimedia.org — Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) portal to all of the major WMF projects
• WikimediaFoundation.org — original public wiki of Wikimedia Foundation, closed July 2018, now a WordPress blog
• Wikimedia Foundation Vision — at the WikimediaFoundation.org blog
• Wikimedia Foundation – Terms of Use — at Foundation.Wikimedia.org, the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
• Wikimedia movement — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Complete list of Wikimedia projects — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Template: Table of Wikimedia projects — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• List of Wikimedia projects by size (sortable) — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• SiteMatrix table of all Wikimedia wikis — listed by language, project, inter-project link, and interwiki, Meta.Wikimedia.org 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, Status.Wikimedia.org at 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 Report Card February 2012 — Wikistats v1 (Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)) published April 2012 by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – active wikis per project — from creation up to October 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – total editors per project — up to October 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – total edits per project — Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – total articles per project — from creation up to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – new articles per project — from creation up to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – total pageviews per project — 2008 to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Page views for Wikimedia wikis – sitemap — Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Page views for other projects, raw data, 26 March 2019 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Page views for Wikimedia, all projects, both sites, normalized, 26 March 2019 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Report card: summaries for Commons and 9 other projects, at a glance December 2018 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Other Projects: edit and revert counts, since start of project, 31 December 2016 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v2 – all wikis (overview) – Wikimedia Statistics — monthly overviews of reading, contributing, and content; from Wikistats v2 (data available under CC0 1.0); Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• WikiStats v2.2 – List of Wikimedia special projects — sortable list table of Wikimedia Foundation wiki sites from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
  • All Wikimedia projects by size — sortable tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in html output
  • All Wikimedia projects by size — tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in downloadable csv (spreadsheet) output
  • All Wikimedia projects by size — tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in wikitext (wikitable) output
• Wikiscan statistics — independent statistics website about Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) hosted wiki sites (CC-BY-SA 3.0), at Wikiscan.org (founded 2011)
• Database dump progress — list of live database dumps at Dumps.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia Downloads
• Wikimedia Foundation database dumps uploaded to the Internet Archive — by Hydriz at Archive.org
• comScore data on Wikimedia — historical summary from 2010 of comScore data on Wikimedia Foundation sites, from User:Stu at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Wikimedia Interactive Statistics — from Martin Poljak at Wikistatistics.net (public domain), via Archive.org from 2015; archived spapshot at 6 May 2013 from archive.is
• Special Wikimedia Projects by size — sortable list from WikiStats by mutante at S23.org (last updated 11 September 2011, but still useful information), via Archive.org
• plain-text database list of all WMF-hosted wiki sites from all projects — at NOC.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia NOC
• plain-text database list of private WMF wiki sites — at NOC.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia NOC
• Wikimedia Grid Report — multiple detailed performance graphs from Ganglia.Wikimedia.org
• Phabricator — formerly Bugzilla.Wikimedia.org, now Wikimedia Phabricator at Phabricator.Wikimedia.org, for bug reporting, tracking, and software development
• Public Mailing Lists — at Lists.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia Lists
• #wikimedia-space:matrix.org — Wikimedia space – unofficial Wikimedia Community space Matrix-channel at Matrix.org
• 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
• Wikimedia.org site info — from Alexa.com, archived snapshot on 2022-04-01, via Archive.org

Official WMF social media and networking

• Twitter feed
• Facebook page
• Instagram galleries
• LinkedIn profile

Further reading

• Bell, Dan (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; [3]; Emereo Publishing; ISBN 1742441661; paperback; 140 pages.

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