MediaWiki

MediaWiki

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MediaWiki is the free, open source, collaborative document authoring software that Wikipedia runs on. Deployed on countless sites from single user to enterprise scale, it is easily configurable and extensible, yet stress-tested for very large loads, remarkable secure and very robust. It is written in pure PHP + Javascript, runs on MySQL (or other backends). This page explains the principles.

 

Introductory reading

Overview of the software: [1]

A MediaWiki feature list: [2]

 

Contents

Links to

• Installation (and dependencies)
• Upgrading
• Configuration
• Editing
• Media files and rich content
• Customizing
  • Templates
  • CSS
  • Extensions
  • Skinning: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/
• Management of users and rights; deleting users and edits

   

Further reading and resources