MediaWiki 1.11

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Here you can find the extensions for MediaWiki.

MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones.

Originally developed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by companies for internal knowledge management, and as a content management system.

Notably, Novell uses it to operate several of its high traffic websites.

MediaWiki is written in the PHP programming language, and can use either the MySQL or PostgreSQL relational database management system.

Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
MediaWiki is free software.

MediaWiki provides a rich core feature set and a mechanism to attach extensions to provide additional functionality.

Due to the strong emphasis on multilinguality in the Wikimedia projects, internationalization and localization has received
significant attention by developers.

The user interface has been fully or partially translated into more than 100 languages (see also translation statistics and Multilingual MediaWiki), and can be further customized by site administrators
(the entire interface is editable through the wiki).

Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication
has also been a major concern for developers.
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki.

One of the earliest differences between MediaWiki (and its predecessor, UseModWiki) and other wiki engines was the use of
"free links" instead of CamelCase.
Where, in a typical wiki, text like "WorldWideWeb" would have to be typed to create a link to a page about the World Wide Web, links in MediaWiki are created by surrounding words with double square brackets, and any spaces between them are left intact, e.g. World Wide Web.
This change was logical for the purpose of creating an encyclopedia, where accuracy in titles is very important.

To make editing long pages such as comprehensive Wikipedia articles easier, MediaWiki allows the editing of a subsection of a page
(as identified by its header).

MediaWiki supports rich content generated through specialized syntax.
For example, the software comes with support for rendering mathematical formulas using LaTeX and a special parser written in OCaml.
Similar functionality for other content, ranging from graphical timelines over mathematical plotting and musical scores to Egyptian hieroglyphs, is available in the form of extensions and also aesthetic sense has improved considerably.

As the name MediaWiki suggests, the software has become ever more powerful at dealing with a wide variety of uploaded media files.
Its richest functionality is in the area of images, where image galleries and thumbnails can be generated with relative ease
if the software is set up correctly.
There is also support for Exif metadata.
The use of MediaWiki to operate the Wikimedia Commons, one of the largest free content media archives, has driven the need for
further functionality in this area.

MediaWiki currently provides no native WYSIWYG support, though it does come with a graphical toolbar for simplifying the process
of learning the wiki syntax.
It also has a simple interface to allow the transparent use of external editors for uploaded files and wiki pages.