Bureaucrats, developer, Administrators
9,842
edits
MediaWiki: Difference between revisions
m
unredirring a link
m (unredirring a link) |
|||
| (10 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[File:MediaWiki logo.png|thumb|right|180px|[[mw:MediaWiki]] logo]] | |||
'''MediaWiki''' [http://www.mediawiki.org (.org)] is the software [[Consumerium]] uses on its [[R&D wiki]] which you are using right now. | '''MediaWiki''' [http://www.mediawiki.org (.org)] is the software [[Consumerium]] uses on its [[R&D wiki]] which you are using right now. | ||
'''Figuring out how to best use it's extra [[namespaces]], [[templates]], [[categories]], [[MediaWiki/extensions|extensions]] and [[MediaWiki/widgets|widgets]] for achieving Consumium [[goals]] is of the essence of the Consumium effort. | It has grown a sturdy, reliable and versatile now with support for '''[[mw:MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle|multilinguality]] and [[Wikidata|structured data]]''' ( in the works ) support in MediaWiki. Figuring out how to best use it's extra [[namespaces]], [[templates]], [[categories]], [[MediaWiki/extensions|extensions]] and [[MediaWiki/widgets|widgets]] for achieving Consumium [[goals]] is of the essence of the Consumium effort. | ||
During the [[ | During the [[Timeline of MediaWiki|years of it's evolution]] MediaWiki has grown to include novel ways of extending the software with possibility to have [[categories]], extra [[namespaces]], [[templates]], [[MediaWiki/extensions]] and later on with [[MediaWiki/widgets]] | ||
[[mw:MediaWiki history]], [[mw:Release notes]] and [[mw:Roadmap]] shed light on the developments of the MediaWiki software from Magnus Manske's original "PhaseIII" code rewrite into PHP Who'd known that PHP scripts run one of the planets biggest sites [[Wikipedia]] and has thus been proven to scale to serve tens of thousands or even hundereds thousands of requests per second. | [[mw:MediaWiki history]], [[mw:Release notes]] and [[mw:Roadmap]] shed light on the developments of the MediaWiki software from Magnus Manske's original "PhaseIII" code rewrite into PHP Who'd known that PHP scripts run one of the planets biggest sites [[Wikipedia]] and has thus been proven to scale to serve tens of thousands or even hundereds thousands of requests per second. | ||
| Line 12: | Line 14: | ||
The long term choices of [[wiki code]] and its integration with other code are things the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] will decide, and this [[Development Wiki]] is here to discuss. As part of [[reflexive design]], we will generally use the tools we are trying to test, before deciding to use them. This will often bias [[sysop]]s and others in favour of what is in use now! We should be very aware of this [[systemic bias]]. | The long term choices of [[wiki code]] and its integration with other code are things the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] will decide, and this [[Development Wiki]] is here to discuss. As part of [[reflexive design]], we will generally use the tools we are trying to test, before deciding to use them. This will often bias [[sysop]]s and others in favour of what is in use now! We should be very aware of this [[systemic bias]]. | ||
Sometimes there are issues with MediaWiki, [[Tickets and feature request|here are some tickets]]. | |||
---- | ---- | ||
== Sites using MediaWiki == | |||
the most popular page using MediaWiki is Wikipedia. But MediaWiki is also used by tens of thousands other different wikis, public and private. | |||
Some of the most popular wikis are: | |||
- Wikia (a wiki farm) | |||
- wikiHow | |||
- WikiLeaks | |||
It is also in use by a large amount of companies as an internal Wiki (e.g.: Novell and Intel). | |||
Also the government makes use of MediaWiki: | |||
- Intellipedia, used by the United States Intelligence Community and | |||
- Diplopedia, used by United States Department of State | |||
| Line 44: | Line 62: | ||
|[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=RELEASE-NOTES;hb=REL1_17 RELEASE-NOTES] | |[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=RELEASE-NOTES;hb=REL1_17 RELEASE-NOTES] | ||
|[[2012]] | |[[2012]] | ||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
|[[/1.16|1.16]] | |[[/1.16|1.16]] | ||
| Line 152: | Line 169: | ||
|} | |} | ||
'''<tt>[[mw:Release notes]]</tt>''' need to be read through to map which functionality was added when and then in a timeline article match what the Consumium [[design paradigm]] to getter a better view. | '''<tt>[[mw:Release notes]]</tt>''' need to be read through to map which functionality was added when and then in a timeline article match what the Consumium [[design paradigm]] to getter a better view. | ||
| Line 160: | Line 176: | ||
'''See also:''' | '''See also:''' | ||
*other [[ | *other [[technologies]] we are using or planning to use | ||
[[Category:Technology]] | |||
[[Category:MediaWiki]] | [[Category:MediaWiki]] | ||