Help:MediaWiki

MediaWiki is the PHP-based wiki engine which runs all of the wikis on Wikia.

The developers originally created the software for Wikipedia, but you can now find MediaWiki at many sites. MediaWiki is free software available under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). Visit its web site, http://www.mediawiki.org, to learn how you can obtain a copy of the software; you can download MediaWiki for installation on your own server.

See the MediaWiki feature list for features of this software.

MediaWiki is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation.

MediaWiki 1.5
MediaWiki 1.5 was first trialed on the Wikimedia sites starting around June 24, 2005, and went live on Wikia on 17 January 2006. The release notes detail the changes. See Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki 1.5 for information about new features in this version.

New features in 1.5 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 can now specify a different filename when uploading files. Hyphens ( -- ) will sometimes be automatically converted to emdashes or endashes. You can hide your own edits on your watchlist. Random page works for other namespaces than the main one. You can add custom inputboxes. You can include some special pages on another page. Adding ?uselang=cy to the end of a URL will display the page with the interface in the language specified (Welsh in this case).

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

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

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