Download

Alternatives to manual installation
Some users may prefer to skip manual installation by using a pre-integrated MediaWiki software appliance or hosting services with 1-click installation and wiki farms.

Other downloads

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

Download through Git/command line
For downloading MediaWiki from Git or from the command line, see Download from Git.

What next?
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Legacy release
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 legacy release MediaWiki
 * Download legacy release MediaWiki (1.18.6) (last release prior to discontinuation)

Development releases
If you want to run on the latest development (i.e. alpha) version, you either download Nightlies, or download from Git:

You can also view the latest source code in your browser.

Old releases
You can find tar balls (*.tar.gz) of all versions of MediaWiki back to February 2007 in the MediaWiki download archives

To browse, including even older versions, see the tags, of the Git repository.

Installation assistance

 * FAQ: Installation and configuration
 * 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.