Help:MediaWiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/1/1c/MediaWiki_logo.png MediaWiki is the PHP-based wiki engine which runs all of the wikis on Wikicities.

The software was originally created for Wikipedia and is now used by many sites. This free software is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and can be downloaded from wikipedia.sourceforge.net.

See the MediaWiki feature list for features of this software.

MediaWiki 1.5
MediaWiki 1.5 will first be trialed on the Wikimedia sites starting around June 24, and is expected to go live on Wikicities as soon as a stable version is released (hopefully in July 2005). The release notes detail the changes. Some downtime or read-only time for schema restructuring will occur during the upgrade from version 1.4. See Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki 1.5 for information about new features in this version.

New features in 1.5 will include permalinks, a page move log, a show changes button, changes to user access levels, email notification of edits, live preview, and the use of external editors. You will be able to specify a different filename when uploading files. Hyphens ( -- ) will sometimes be automatically converted to emdashes or endashes. You will be able to hide your own edits on your watchlist. Random page will work for other namespaces than the main one. You will be able to add custom inputboxes. You will be able to include some special pages on another page.

Special:Maintenance, including the misspellings feature, will not be available in MediaWiki 1.5.

See also: MediaWiki namespace, MediaWiki help guide, Wikipedia's article on MediaWiki.

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