Manual:What is MediaWiki?/scn

Prubbabbilmenti canusci Wikipedia, l'Enciclupidìa Lìbbira. MediaWiki è lu software ca pirmetti a Wikipedia d'opirari.

Si sî cunfusu dâ simigghianza dê palori Wiki, Wikimedia e MediaWiki, ti poi lèggiri ntô Glussariu li diffirenzi ntra sti tèrmini.



Visioni di nzemi ginirali
MediaWiki è nu software lìbbiru latu server, rilassatu sutta licenza GNU General Public License (GPL). È pruggittatu pi funziunari nta server farm granni pi siti c'arricèvinu miliuna di vìsiti ô jornu.

MediaWiki è nu software stremamenti putenti ca mplimenta na gamma di funzioni wiki vasta. Utilizza PHP pi prucissari e ammustrari dati sarvati n database MySQL.

Li pàggini ùsanu lu furmatu wikitext; nta sta manera puru l'utenti ca nun canùscinu XHTML o li CSS ponnu canciàrili facilmenti.

Quannu n'utenti manna nu canciamentu di na pàggina, MediaWiki la sarva ntô database senza cancillari la virsioni pricidenti: nta sta manera è pussìbbili ripristinari facilmenti pàggini ca subberu atti di vannalismu o di spamming. Noltri MediaWiki pò gistiri mmàggini e àutri file multimidiali; sti file vèninu sarvati ntô filesystem dô server. Pi wiki granni cu tanti utenti, MediaWiki teni n cache li pàggini p'ammustràrili chiù vilocimenti; pò noltre èssiri accucchiatu macari cô server proxy Squid.



MediaWiki è...

 * MediaWiki è nu software wiki


 * Si nun sai zocch'è nu wiki, lèggiti la vuci di Wikipedia prima d'assicutari!


 * MediaWiki è nu software server


 * As with any software that you expose to the internet, there may be bugs or security problems. Do not install MediaWiki unless you intend to keep up with security upgrades (please subscribe to receive announcements of security updates).


 * MediaWiki is geared towards the needs of the Wikimedia projects.


 * The program was primarily developed to run on a large server farm for Wikipedia and its sister projects. Features, performance, configurability, ease-of-use, etc are often designed in this light; if your needs are radically different the software might not be appropriate for you.


 * MediaWiki è nu software lìbbiru.


 * 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. It can host a wiki on an organization's internal network, where only insiders see it.
 * MediaWiki has been designed to serve very high-traffic websites such as Wikipedia. It has been optimized for this use and may not be 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.