MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally
written for Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia project. It is now used by
several other projects of
the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis. It is
designed to handle a large
number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or
workflow.
The software is 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 its MySQL
database.
MediaWiki is usable on both large and small sites, though some
aspects of configuration may seem overcomplicated partly as the
software is
focused on being the editing tool for Wikipedia.
MediaWiki 1.18.1
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Price
Free to download
Size
16.5MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Wikimedia Foundation
Website
mediawiki.org
System Requirements
PHP 5.3.5 or later
Web server (typically Apache)
Database server (MySQL 4.0 or later, PostgreSQL 8.1 or later, Ingress
2006 or later)
Optional:
ImageMagick or HD
TeX
Sendmail
Shell access
Support
Sites:
Documentation,
FAQ,
Mailing
Lists, Forums,
Bugzilla
Selected
Reviews:
Linux
Journal
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Features include:
- Rich core feature set and a mechanism to attach extensions
to provide
additional functionality:
- Supports rich content generated through specialized syntax
- Namespaces
- Customization
- Extensions
- Access and groups
- File upload
- Automatic resizing of images
- Performance and scalability
- Squid caches
- Load-balanced database replication
- Client-side caching
- memcached or table-based cacjing
- Simple static file cache
- Feature-reduced operation
- Revision compression
- Job queue for database operations
- Full text search
- Talk pages
- Message notification
- Automatic signatures
- Multilanguage support with UTF-8 support
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Last Updated Sunday, February 05 2012 @ 01:43 PM EST
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