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Welcome to the MediaWiki wiki. This wiki is intended to replace http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/, and maybe other things too.

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit foundation registered in the state of Florida which operates Wikipedia (a free encyclopedia in over 50 languages), Wiktionary (a free dictionary), Wikisource (a collection of public domain or FDL-licensed texts), Wikibooks (free textbooks for schools and universities), and Wikiquote (a collection of notable quotations).

All these projects are based on wiki technology: they are open knowledge bases which can be improved by anyone. For content downloads of these projects, see download.wikipedia.org which has regularly updated backup dumps of all Wikimedia content databases. This is the homepage of the underlying open source wiki engine, MediaWiki, which is developed on SourceForge via CVS, and is available under the GNU General Public License (the contents of the Wikimedia wikis themselves are mostly licensed under the GNU FDL).

Bug reports: Please use our bugzilla to report bugs, request features, and submit patches.

Releases

Stable release series 1.4.x

1.4.7 released 2005-07-16: Stable series bugfix release

mediawiki-1.4.7.tar.gz

MediaWiki 1.4.7 is a bug fix release. Those affected by the following problems in 1.4.6 should upgrade:
  • Watchlist breakage on MySQL 3.23.x and with table prefix enabled
  • Possible breakage in watchlist, some image resizing modes on PHP 4.1.2
1.4.6 included a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability, so anyone running older 1.4 releases is very strongly encouraged to upgrade as well.
Note to upgraders: current versions of MediaWiki are known to produce a large number of notice-level warnings under the newly released PHP 4.4.0. These appear however to be harmless; if you encounter them add this to your LocalSettings.php to suppress the notices:
error_reporting( E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE );
PHP 5.1.0beta3 is known to be incompatible at this time.
Changes since last release: (full release notes)
  • (MediaZilla:2755, MediaZilla:2747) MySQL 3.23.x and table prefix compatibility fix: restore old watchlist code
  • PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing

1.4.6 released 2005-07-07: Stable series security and bugfix release. For details of this and all earlier releases, please see wikipedia.sourceforge.net.

Beta preview release

1.5beta3 released 2005-07-07: Beta of next major release

mediawiki-1.5beta3.tar.gz

MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series, with a security update over beta 2. Third-party users should probably not use this beta release to run a public site unless paying close attention to development and ongoing releases.
A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases, including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings. See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior configuration settings for the new system.
Changes since last release: (full release notes)

Learn more

MediaWiki has been developed by Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, Gabriel Wicke and others. Learn more about the script and policy on Wikimedia's Meta wiki:


Related software projects

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