MediaWiki architecture document

Rationale
In August 2011, Greg Wilson, editor of the Architecture of Open Source Applications book, contacted the engineering department of the Wikimedia Foundation to offer to include a 5000-word chapter on MediaWiki in volume 2 of the book.

The Architecture of Open Source Applications book presents case studies of the architecture of large-scale open-source projects; the content is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

It rapidly appeared that a document would also be generally useful to help new developers dive into MediaWiki development. For this reason, Guillaume Paumier and Sumana Harihareswara accepted the responsibility of leading the collaborative writing of the document by the MediaWiki community.

Timeline

 * September 2nd: Project plan and schedule
 * October 31st, 2011: Delivery of the final draft
 * February 2012: Publication

Documents

 * MediaWiki History/How and why: initial ideas
 * Status updates