Difference between revisions of "MediaWiki"
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| − | You probably know [ | + | You probably know [https://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], the free encyclopedia, and may possibly be a little bit confused by similar, but different, words such as Wiki, Wikimedia or '''MediaWiki'''. |
| − | To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the [ | + | To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipmediawiki article about the names] where the differences are explained. |
==General Overview== | ==General Overview== | ||
| − | MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the [ | + | MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License GNU General Public License] (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP PHP] to process and display data stored in its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL MySQL] database. |
| − | Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of [ | + | Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML XHTML] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets CSS] can edit them easily. |
When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. MediaWiki can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the filesystem. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching and can be easily coupled with Squid proxy server software. | When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. MediaWiki can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the filesystem. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching and can be easily coupled with Squid proxy server software. | ||
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We suggest you exercise yourself within our sandbox. | We suggest you exercise yourself within our sandbox. | ||
| − | You can also look up the [ | + | You can also look up the [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cheatsheet-en.png cheat sheet] with basic formatting commands. |
[[Category: General Reference]] | [[Category: General Reference]] | ||
Latest revision as of 01:22, 13 December 2020
You probably know Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and may possibly be a little bit confused by similar, but different, words such as Wiki, Wikimedia or MediaWiki.
To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the article about the names where the differences are explained.
General Overview
MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database.
Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily.
When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. MediaWiki can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the filesystem. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching and can be easily coupled with Squid proxy server software.
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.
You can also look up the cheat sheet with basic formatting commands.
