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Welcome to MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.

Use the links below to explore the site contents. You'll find some content translated into other languages, but the primary documentation language is English.

For general questions about MediaWiki see the communication page. If you have a question about this wiki, please visit the forum.
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Current versions
  • 1.15.1 – 2009-07-13
  • 1.14.1 – 2009-07-13
  • 1.6.12 – 2009-02-07
News

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Older news

  • 2009-02-07: 1.13.4, 1.12.4, 1.6.12, and 1.14.0rc1 released
    Security Security updates available
    Release MediaWiki 1.14.0rc1 release candidate available
  • 2008-12-15: 1.13.3, 1.12.2, 1.6.11 released
    Security Security updates available
  • 2008-10-02: 1.13.2, 1.12.1 released
    Security Security updates MediaWiki 1.13.2 and 1.12.1 available
  • 2008-09-06: 1.13.1 released
    Maintenance update MediaWiki 1.13.1 bugfix release available
  • 2008-08-14: 1.13.0 quarterly release
    Release MediaWiki 1.13.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading.
  • 2008-08-11: 1.13.0rc2 release candidate
    Release MediaWiki 1.13.0rc2 release candidate available
  • 2008-07-25: 1.13.0rc1 release candidate
    Release MediaWiki 1.13.0rc1 release candidate available.
  • 2008-03-20: 1.12.0 quarterly release
    Release MediaWiki 1.12.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading.
  • 2008-03-11: 1.12.0rc1 release candidate
    Release MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 release candidate available.
  • 2008-03-02: 1.11.2 security update, 1.10.4, 1.9.6 bugfix updates
    Security Security updates available.
    Maintenance update Bug fixes for regressions in previous security fix
  • 2008-01-23: 1.11.1, 1.10.3, 1.9.5 security updates
    Security Security updates available.
  • 2007-09-10: 1.11.0 new stable branch
    Release Quarterly branch available, see Manual:Upgrading to 1.11.
  • 2007-09-10: 1.10.2, 1.9.4, 1.8.5 security updates
    Security Security updates available.
  • 2007-09-05: 1.11.0 branch release candidate
    Release MediaWiki 1.11.0rc1 release candidate available.
  • 2007-07-23: MediaWiki 1.11.0 release will be held back until mid-August, after the Wikimania 2007 conference, to allow for better testing of new features.
  • 2007-07-13: 1.10.1 bugfix release
    Maintenance update MediaWiki 1.10.1 update
  • 2007-05-09: 1.10.0 new stable branch
    Release MediaWiki 1.10.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading to 1.10.
  • 2007-05-04: 1.10.0 branch release candidate
    Maintenance update MediaWiki 1.10.0rc2 release candidate available.
  • 2007-04-30: 1.10.0 branch release candidate
    Release MediaWiki 1.10.0rc1 release candidate available.
  • 2007-04-12: MediaWiki 1.10.0 release will be held back until the latter half of April to allow for better testing, performance tuning
  • 2007-02-20: 1.9.3, 1.8.4, 1.7.3, 1.6.10 security fix releases
    Security Patched Internet Explorer-specific XSS vulnerability in non-default configuration (with experimental AJAX features enabled).
  • 2007-02-04: 1.9.2 fix release
    Security Patched XSS vulnerability in sortable tables; all 1.9 users should upgrade.
    Maintenance update Fixes to Creative Commons license configuration, optional storage compression.
  • 2007-01-24: 1.9.1 bug fix release
    Maintenance update Fixes to installation/upgrade, IIS, Opera/Mac and Firefox/X11 tooltip labels, security fix for optional DjVu support, and other fixes.
  • 2007-01-10: 1.9.0 new stable branch
    Release Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.9.
  • 2007-01-09: 1.9.0rc2 testing release; 1.8.3, 1.7.2, 1.6.9 security fix releases
    Security Patched XSS vulnerability in non-default configuration (with experimental AJAX features enabled).
  • 2006-10-13: 1.8.2 bug fix release
    Maintenance update Fix for non-ASCII namespaces on Windows servers.
  • 2006-10-11: 1.8.1 bug fix release
    Maintenance update Installer PHP 5 check, register_globals paranoia, disabled potentially information-leaky backtraces.
  • 2006-10-10: 1.8.0 new stable branch
    Release Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.8.
  • 2006-07-08: 1.7.1, 1.6.8 bug fix releases
    Maintenance update Fixed some installer issues in 1.7.
    Security Potential XSS with vulnerable PHP versions patched.
  • 2006-07-07: 1.7.0 new stable branch
    Release Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.7.
  • 2006-06-06: Fix for XSS in 1.6 branch
    Security All 1.6 installations should upgrade to 1.6.7. 1.5.x and earlier may be affected by some problems with extensions.
  • 2006-05-23: Fix for XSS in 1.6 branch
    Security All 1.6 installations should upgrade to 1.6.6. 1.5.x and earlier not affected.
  • 2006-05-02: 1.6.5 more fixes
    Maintenance update Various fixes for other corner cases. 1.6.4 was slightly buggy.
  • 2006-04-10: 1.6.3 installer fixes
    Maintenance update Installation on MySQL 4.0 older than 4.0.18 should work again.
  • 2006-04-08: 1.6.2 extension fixes
    Maintenance update Extension tags with "/" in parameters work again. Some more installer fixlets.
  • 2006-04-05: 1.6.1 installer fixes
    Maintenance update A few bugs affecting some installs on 1.6.0 fixed.
  • 2006-04-05: 1.6.0 new stable branch
    Release Quarterly release brings fun new features, see also Upgrading to 1.6.
  • 2006-03-26: 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 fix XSS injection bug
    Security HTML injection in encoded page links.
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