Manual:What is MediaWiki?/zh

你可能知道维基百科Wikipedia——自由的百科全书，而你也可能被一些相似但又意义截然不同的词语所混淆，譬如Wiki、Wikimedia或“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.



MediaWiki 是什么...

 * MediaWiki 是一个 wiki 软件.


 * 如果你不知道什么是 wiki，请先阅读此文！


 * MediaWiki 是一个服务器软件.


 * 和其它的在因特网上运行的软件一样，MediaWiki 中也可能有程序错误或安全问题. 如果你不打算保持进行安全更新，请不要使用 MediaWiki (请订阅以接受安全更新公告).


 * MediaWiki 是应维基媒体基金会（Wikimedia Foundation）的需要而编制的.


 * 开发该程序主要是用来运行在维基百科（Wikipedia）和其姊妹计划的大型服务器场合. 其功能、性能、可配置性、易用性等都是鉴于此而设计的；如果你的需要完全不同，那么这款软件可能无法使你满意.


 * MediaWiki 是一个自由软件.


 * 不提供任何形式的担保或保证.

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.

MediaWiki 做不好的一些事情...

 * 由于 MediaWiki 是为开放内容而设计的，当你要限制对部分 wiki 内容的访问时，该软件往往是不合适的.


 * MediaWiki 是设计用来服务于如维基百科这样的大流量网站的. 它已经针对这类网站进行了优化，对于一些在磁盘空间和内存占用受到比流量更大限制的小网站，该软件可能不是那么合适.


 * 如果你想使用专门的论坛/博客软件，通常并不适合用 MediaWiki 来进行替代.

在以上情况下，可能有一些其它的 wiki 软件（或非 wiki 软件）更符合你的需要.

另见

 * Manual:Deciding whether to use a wiki as your website type
 * Manual:Deciding which wiki software to use
 * MediaWiki 全部功能列表
 * Comparison of wiki software
 * www.wikimatrix.org - 并排比较各种 wiki 引擎.