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Our downloads are in .tar.gz format. If you are on Windows, you can use either 7-zip or Total Commander to decompress them.

MediaWiki requires PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite. For more information please read the system requirements.

Other downloads:
 * MediaWiki GPG security signature to verify your download with GNU Privacy Guard
 * GPG keys
 * MediaWiki changes not including i18n (unified diff)
 * MediaWiki i18n changes (unified diff)

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Latest development version
If you want to run on the latest development version, you either have to use subversion or download nightly dump.

PHP 4
MediaWiki requires PHP 5. If you are using PHP 4, upgrade now! It's no longer supported by the PHP group, and has lots of bugs.

Many shared hosting providers offer both PHP 4 and PHP 5, running simultaneously. Ask your provider if they can do this.

If for some reason, you really really need to run MediaWiki on PHP 4, you should use the MediaWiki 1.6.x branch from 2006:


 * Download PHP 4 compatible MediaWiki

Old branches
If your MediaWiki installation is heavily modified, it may be difficult to incorporate the latest official changes/updates to MediaWiki. To support such users, we maintain old branches of our code for up to a year.


 * Download old MediaWiki

Archive
You can find downloads of all versions of MediaWiki back to February 2007 on our download server:


 * MediaWiki download archives

Even older versions can be found in Subversion, in the tags directory.

Installation assistance

 * FAQ: FAQ
 * mediawiki-l (Mailing List) is the high-traffic mailing list to ask for support.
 * MediaWiki Users (Forum) is a user to user Mediawiki support forum