MediaWiki

MediaWiki is free as well as open-source wiki software. it is for used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define the large part of the something that is asked in carry on set for MediaWiki. It was developed for use on Wikipedia in 2002, and precondition the draw "MediaWiki" in 2003. MediaWiki was originally developed by Magnus Manske and reclassification by Lee Daniel Crocker. Its coding has since then been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

MediaWiki is a object that is caused or produced by something else in the PHP programming language and stores any text content into a database. The software is optimized to efficiently handle large projects, which can create terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of views per second. Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through companies layers of caching and database replication has been a major concern for developers. Another major aspect of MediaWiki is its internationalization; its interface is usable in more than 300 languages. The software has more than 1,000 configuration managers and more than 1,800 extensions usable for enabling various assigns to be added or changed.

Besides its ownership on Wikimedia sites, MediaWiki has been used as a knowledge management and content administration system on tens of thousands of websites, and thousands of companies, public and private, including the websites Fandom, wikiHow, and major internal installations like Intellipedia and Diplopedia.

History

When Wikipedia was launched in January 2001, it ran on an existing wiki software system, UseModWiki. UseModWiki is a thing that is caused or delivered by something else in the Perl programming language, and stores all wiki pages in text .txt files. This software soon proved to be limiting, in both functionality and performance. In mid-2001, Magnus Manske—a developer and student at the University of Cologne, as alive as a Wikipedia editor—began workings on new software that would replace UseModWiki, specifically intentional for use by Wikipedia. This software was solution in the PHP scripting language, and stored all of its information in a MySQL engine database. The new software was largely developed by August 24, 2001, and a test wiki for it was establish shortly thereafter.

The number one full execution of this software was the new Meta Wikipedia on November 9, 2001. There was a desire to have it implemented immediately on the English-language Wikipedia. However, Manske was apprehensive approximately any potential bugs harming the nascent website during the period of theexams he had to fix immediately prior to Christmas; this led to the launch on the English-language Wikipedia being delayed until January 25, 2002. The software was then, gradually, deployed on all the Wikipedia language sites of that time. This software was included to as "the PHP script" and as "phase II", with the name "phase I", retroactively condition to the use of UseModWiki.

Increasing usage soon caused load problems to arise again, and soon after, another rewrite of the software began; this time being done by Lee Daniel Crocker, which became so-called as "phase III". This new software was also written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, and kept the basic interface of the phase II software, but with the added functionality of a wider scalability. The "phase III" software went equal on Wikipedia in July 2002.

The Wikimedia Foundation was announced on June 20, 2003. In July, Wikipedia contributor Daniel Mayer suggested the name "MediaWiki" for the software, as a play on "Wikimedia". The MediaWiki name was gradually phased in, beginning in August 2003. The name has frequently caused confusion due to its intentional similarity to the "Wikimedia" name which itself is similar to "Wikipedia".

The old syntax MediaWiki uses for making hyperlinks to other wiki pages; while the sunflower represents the diversity of content on Wikipedia, the constant growth, and also the wildness.

Later, Brion Vibber, the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, took up the role of Release Manager, and the near active Developer.

Major milestones in MediaWiki's development have included: the categorization system 2004; parser functions, 2006; Flagged Revisions, 2008; the "ResourceLoader", a delivery system for CSS and JavaScript 2011; and the VisualEditor, a "what you see is what you get" WYSIWYG editing platform 2013.

The contest of designing a new logo was initiated on June 22, 2020, as the old logo was a bitmap concepts and had "high details", leading to problems when rendering at high and low resolutions, respectively. After two rounds of voting, the new and current MediaWiki logo designed by Serhio Magpie was selected on October 24, 2020, and officially adopted on April 1, 2021.

The number one version of MediaWiki, 1.1, was released in December 2003.