User:The Transhumanist/Outline of MediaWiki
The following outline is presented as an overview of and topical guide to MediaWiki:
MediaWiki (w:MediaWiki) – free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on w:Wikipedia. It is now also used by several other projects of the non-profit w:Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including www.mediawiki.org, the official website of MediaWiki.
What type of thing is MediaWiki?[edit]
- Wiki software – computer program that runs a wiki, i.e., a website that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages via a web browser
- Free software
MediaWiki system requirements[edit]
- Template:DownloadMediaWiki/en#System requirements – MediaWiki requires PHP 7.4.3+ and either MySQL 5.7.0+ or one of the other three possible stores.
MediaWiki features[edit]
How to get MediaWiki[edit]
How to install MediaWiki[edit]
How to install an existing wiki into MediaWiki[edit]
Running MediaWiki[edit]
Using MediaWiki[edit]
MediaWiki community[edit]
- Professional development and consulting – list of self-declared professionals for hire
- MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group – (defunct?) user group consisting of MediaWiki developers, system administrators, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order to improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects.
- MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Mission – nexus of support for MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia sites.
- MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group Communications
- https://riot.im/app/#/room/#mwstake-general:matrix.org – appears to be active
- Hosting services – list
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MediaWiki development[edit]
History of MediaWiki[edit]
Wikis that are run on MediaWiki[edit]
Wikimedia wikis[edit]
- Sites using MediaWiki/Wikimedia
- wmf:Special:SiteMatrix (Table of Mediawiki wikis)
Wikimedia projects[edit]
- wikimedia.org (Lists the projects, in a matrix)
- w:Wikimedia projects:
| Logo | Name | Web address | Launched | Description | Editions |
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w:Wikipedia | wikipedia.org | 2001-01-15 | Encyclopedia articles | 291 languages |
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w:Wiktionary | wiktionary.org | 2002-12-12 | Dictionary, including etymologies, synonyms, and translations | 172 languages |
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w:Wikibooks | wikibooks.org | 2003-07-10 | Educational textbooks and learning materials | 121 languages |
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w:Wikinews | wikinews.org | 2004-11-08 | News source | 33 languages |
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w:Wikiquote | wikiquote.org | 2003-07-10 | Collection of quotations | 89 languages |
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w:Wikisource | wikisource.org | 2003-11-23 | Library of source documents and translations | 65 languages |
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w:Wikiversity | wikiversity.org | 2006-08-15 | Educational and research materials and activities | 15 languages |
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w:Wikivoyage | wikivoyage.org | 2006-12-10 (2013-01-15 as a WMF project) |
Travel guide | 17 languages |
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w:Wikimedia Commons | commons.wikimedia.org | 2004-09-07 | Repository of images, sounds, videos, and other media files | 1 (multilingual) |
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Wikimedia Incubator | incubator.wikimedia.org | 2006-06-02 | Testing possible new languages for existing projects | 1 (multilingual) |
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Meta-Wiki | meta.wikimedia.org | 2001-11-09 | Coordination of the other Wikimedia projects | 1 (multilingual) |
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w:Wikispecies | species.wikimedia.org | 2004-09-14 | Directory of w:species data on all forms of life | 1 (multilingual) |
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w:Wikidata | wikidata.org | 2012-10-30 | Knowledge base | 1 (multilingual) |
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w:Wikimania | wikimania.wikimedia.org | 2005-08-04 | Wikimania conference websites | 1 for each year |