MediaWiki architecture document/status

Last update on: 2011-09-30

2011-08-31
Greg Wilson, editor of the Architecture of Open Source Applications book, contacted the engineering department of the Wikimedia Foundation to offer to include a chapter on MediaWiki in volume 2 of the book, which presents the architecture of large-scale open-source projects, and decisions that led to it. Since it appeared that a document would also be generally useful to help new developers dive into MediaWiki development, Guillaume Paumier and Sumana Harihareswara accepted the responsibility of leading the collaborative writing of the document by the MediaWiki community.

2011-09-30
A handful of developers contributed to the project. Sumana Harihareswara reached out to developers to convince them to participate, while Guillaume Paumier continued to go through historical content to document the evolution of MediaWiki's architecture.