Manual:What is MediaWiki?/ko



You probably know Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and may possibly be a little bit confused by similar, but different, words such as Wiki, Wikimedia or MediaWiki.

To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the article about the names where the differences are explained.



General Overview
MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's 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 a database, such as MySQL.

Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily.

When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. MediaWiki can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the filesystem. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching and can be easily coupled with Squid proxy server software.



미디어위키란 무엇인가...

 * 미디어위키는 위키 소프트웨어 입니다.


 * 만약 위키라는 것이 무엇인지 모르신다면, 더 이상 나아가기 전에 위키피디아의 이 문서 를 읽어주십시오!


 * 미디어위키는 서버 소프트웨어 입니다.


 * 인터넷으로 노출되는 그 어떠한 소프트웨어와 마찬가지로 버그나 보안 문제가 있을 수 있습니다. 보안 업그레이드를 지속적으로 따르실 의향이 없으시다면 미디어위키를 설치하지 마십시오. (보안 업데이트의 소식을 받기 위한 구독을 하여주시기 바랍니다)


 * 미디어위키는 위키미디어 재단의 필요를 충족시키기 위한 방향으로 제작됩니다.


 * 이 프로그램은 대형 서버 팜 상에서 위키피디아와 관련 자매 프로젝트들을 실행하기 위해서 기본적으로 개발됩니다. 기능, 성능, 조합성, 사용의 편리성, 기타 등등은 이러한 측면에서 설계됩니다; 만약 귀하께서 필요로 하시는 것이 극명하게 다른 것이라면 이 소프트웨어는 귀하께는 적절하지 않을 수도 있습니다.


 * MediaWiki is free software.


 * No guarantee or warranty of any kind is provided.

Try out Wikitext


Yes, you can easily modify pages and you can (temporarily) publish dummy sentences, and you can even (temporarily) completely destroy a page in a wiki. You don't need to have any programming skills to do this.

We suggest you exercise yourself within our sandbox. Please isolate your testing there, though: the admins might not take too kindly to your mischief otherwise.

You can also look up the which contains basic formatting commands.

Some things MediaWiki doesn't do so well...

 * Because MediaWiki was designed for open-content, it is often not suitable for situations where you want to restrict access to part of the wiki.


 * MediaWiki has been designed to serve very high-traffic websites such as Wikipedia. It has been optimised for this use and may not be so suitable for smaller sites, where disk space or memory are bigger restrictions than bandwidth.


 * MediaWiki is not normally a suitable replacement for dedicated forum/blogging software if that is what you are after.

In the above cases there may be other wiki software (or non-wiki software) which better serves your needs.