| Index: trunk/phase3/README |
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| 2 | | -2007-09-15 |
| | 2 | +2008-11-11 |
| 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | | -For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files RELEASE-NOTES, |
| 5 | | -INSTALL, and UPGRADE. |
| | 4 | +For system requirements, installation and upgrade details, see the files |
| | 5 | +RELEASE-NOTES, INSTALL, and UPGRADE. |
| 6 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | == MediaWiki == |
| 8 | 8 | |
| 9 | 9 | MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org/] and the |
| 10 | 10 | other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an |
| 11 | 11 | excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using |
| 12 | | -multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 50000+ requests per second range |
| 13 | | -as of January 2008). |
| | 12 | +multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 60000+ requests per second range |
| | 13 | +as of November 2008). |
| 14 | 14 | |
| 15 | 15 | While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own" |
| 16 | 16 | local documentation, and some aspects of configuration may seem overcomplicated |
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| 34 | 34 | * Domas Mituzas |
| 35 | 35 | * Rob Church |
| 36 | 36 | * Jens Frank |
| | 37 | +* Yuri Astrakhan |
| | 38 | +* Aryeh Gregor |
| | 39 | +* Aaron Schulz |
| 37 | 40 | * Several others (view CREDITS for a more complete list) |
| 38 | 41 | |
| 39 | | -The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed |
| 40 | | -under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later[1] |
| 41 | | -(see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later |
| 42 | | -versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same |
| 43 | | -terms. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or |
| 44 | | -variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins |
| 45 | | -for details. |
| | 42 | +The contributors hold the copyright to this work, and it is licensed under the |
| | 43 | +terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later[1] (see |
| | 44 | +http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html). Derivative works and later |
| | 45 | +versions of the code must be free software licensed under the same or a |
| | 46 | +compatible license. This includes "extensions" that use MediaWiki functions or |
| | 47 | +variables; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins for |
| | 48 | +details. |
| 46 | 49 | |
| 47 | 50 | The Wikimedia Foundation currently has no legal rights to the software. |
| 48 | 51 | |
| 49 | | -[1] Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are |
| 50 | | -also released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of |
| 51 | | -users under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof. |
| | 52 | +[1] Sections of code written exclusively by Lee Crocker or Erik Moeller are also |
| | 53 | +released into the public domain, which does not impair the obligations of users |
| | 54 | +under the GPL for use of the whole code or other sections thereof. |
| 52 | 55 | |
| 53 | 56 | [2] MediaWiki makes use of the Sajax Toolkit by modernmethod, |
| 54 | 57 | http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/ |
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| 66 | 69 | |
| 67 | 70 | http://www.mediawiki.org/ |
| 68 | 71 | |
| 69 | | -The code is currently maintained in a Subversion repository |
| 70 | | -at svn.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion |
| 71 | | -for details. |
| | 72 | +The code is currently maintained in a Subversion repository at |
| | 73 | +svn.wikimedia.org. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion for details. |
| 72 | 74 | |
| 73 | 75 | Please report bugs and make feature requests in our Bugzilla system: |
| 74 | 76 | |
| 75 | | - http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ |
| | 77 | + https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ |
| 76 | 78 | |
| 77 | 79 | Documentation and discussion on new features may be found at: |
| 78 | 80 | |
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| 87 | 89 | If you are setting up your own wiki based on this software, it is highly |
| 88 | 90 | recommended that you subscribe to mediawiki-announce: |
| 89 | 91 | |
| 90 | | - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce |
| | 92 | + https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce |
| 91 | 93 | |
| 92 | | -The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for |
| 93 | | -announcements of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues. |
| | 94 | +The mailing list is very low volume, and is intended primarily for announcements |
| | 95 | +of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues. |
| 94 | 96 | |
| 95 | 97 | A higher volume support mailing list can be found at: |
| 96 | 98 | |
| 97 | | - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l |
| | 99 | + https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l |
| 98 | 100 | |
| 99 | 101 | Developer discussion takes place at: |
| 100 | 102 | |
| 101 | | - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l |
| | 103 | + https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l |
| 102 | 104 | |
| 103 | | -There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on |
| 104 | | -irc.freenode.net, and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com. |
| | 105 | +There is also a development and support channel #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net, |
| | 106 | +and an unoffical support forum at www.mwusers.com. |